What Our Ideas About Ugliness Reveal About Our Anxieties Surrounding Gender
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I was assessing my face against my mother’s from my earliest memories, or rather the world around me was, and it was consistently communicating—in a quizzical glance or a compliment withheld or a hostile blank face—that I was falling short, way short. In fact, I remember the exact moment my ugly sense of self went from a hazy half thought to a bright hue of certainty.
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On a sunny day in 1986 on Cord Street in Downey, California, where I grew up amid a caricature of ’80s paraphernalia and cultur
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On a sunny day in 1986 on Cord Street in Downey, California, where I grew up amid a caricature of ’80s paraphernalia and cultur
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