Thanks for all of these interesting links and happy birthday!!!
I will say about Jessica deFino's "you do not need skincare article" - it's really condescending and almost ableist. Many of us do not have genetically blessed awesome skin that self-regulates. We do need cleansers to keep our faces clog-free, moisturisers for smoothness, Vit C to get rid of hyperpigmentation (a big concern for POCs like me), and retinol to improve cell turnover. These aren't fanciful ideas - they are research-backed chemicals that work. Saying no one needs them is just plain false lol. It replicates the idea that only people who can be effortlessly beautiful deserve to be/ feel beautiful.
SO interesting!! Jessica DeFino is an anti-beauty industrial complex writer and the main point of her work is that the beauty industry is fucked up in so many ways. But in this article I totally get what you're saying! Like it's easy for someone with great genes to say you don't need any skincare products. I tried it and it definitely didn't work for me to cut out all skincare products (my acne came back with RAGE), but the article itself I found super fascinating. I love your take on it though! Really interesting food for thought. Thank you :)
Happy birthday 🎊🎉!! And thank you for this! Ever since you recommended reading Dark Matter and The Space Between Worlds (a genre I never read before and apparently really like), I constantly find myself looking back to your posts to see other things you recommended and I’m never disappointed. Appreciate this list!
Happy Birthday to you! You have been through quite a year! Just want to say that I had unsubscribed for a while...I am more than twice your age and felt that I wasn’t in your target audience. But...I kept reading and decided that wasn’t really relevant...I enjoy reading your pieces and admire your thinking. So...I re-subscribed!
I want to thank you for this list...I glanced through it and saw many things I look forward to reading. I appreciate the effort that you made into putting it together...but that fits with the reasons I decided to subscribe! Keep on doing you...you are really doing it well!
Thank you for the links! Adding them to a playlist now x
Thanks for all of these interesting links and happy birthday!!!
I will say about Jessica deFino's "you do not need skincare article" - it's really condescending and almost ableist. Many of us do not have genetically blessed awesome skin that self-regulates. We do need cleansers to keep our faces clog-free, moisturisers for smoothness, Vit C to get rid of hyperpigmentation (a big concern for POCs like me), and retinol to improve cell turnover. These aren't fanciful ideas - they are research-backed chemicals that work. Saying no one needs them is just plain false lol. It replicates the idea that only people who can be effortlessly beautiful deserve to be/ feel beautiful.
SO interesting!! Jessica DeFino is an anti-beauty industrial complex writer and the main point of her work is that the beauty industry is fucked up in so many ways. But in this article I totally get what you're saying! Like it's easy for someone with great genes to say you don't need any skincare products. I tried it and it definitely didn't work for me to cut out all skincare products (my acne came back with RAGE), but the article itself I found super fascinating. I love your take on it though! Really interesting food for thought. Thank you :)
Happy Birthday! Definitely bookmarking this and will come back to read from this list, thank you!
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Happy Birthday Kelly 🥳🍰 I really enjoy your writing and this newsletter 💚
Thank you Odile!!
Happy birthday lady!! lots and lots of love ❤️
Thank you! <3
Happy birthday 🎊🎉!! And thank you for this! Ever since you recommended reading Dark Matter and The Space Between Worlds (a genre I never read before and apparently really like), I constantly find myself looking back to your posts to see other things you recommended and I’m never disappointed. Appreciate this list!
I love hearing that so much!!! <3 Such good books I can't stand it!
Happy Birthday to you! You have been through quite a year! Just want to say that I had unsubscribed for a while...I am more than twice your age and felt that I wasn’t in your target audience. But...I kept reading and decided that wasn’t really relevant...I enjoy reading your pieces and admire your thinking. So...I re-subscribed!
I want to thank you for this list...I glanced through it and saw many things I look forward to reading. I appreciate the effort that you made into putting it together...but that fits with the reasons I decided to subscribe! Keep on doing you...you are really doing it well!
Thanks so much, Sharon!! I appreciate that so much! <3
Happy Birthday!🎂🎈🎉
Thank you! xx