A Retraction of Yesterday’s Guest Essay
And new recommended reading.
Hi everyone,
Yesterday The Unpublishable shared an essay from a guest writer, Kimia Dargahi, titled “You’d Be Even More Beautiful With A Smaller Nose.” It has been brought to my attention that the guest essay contained many instances of plagiarism, with lines and phrases lifted from this article written by Dina Nayeri for VICE in 2014. I apologize to Dina Nayeri and to all of you — the readers who come to The Unpublishable for original reporting on ignored or under-examined topics in the beauty space — for not realizing this prior to publishing Kimia Dargahi’s piece. Her essay has been removed from the site.
Because so many of you resonated with the themes in “You’d Be Even More Beautiful With A Smaller Nose,” today I encourage you to read Dina Nayeri’s 2014 article, “The Complicated Beauty Of The Persian Nose.”
-Jessica
thanks for promptly addressing this and linking to the other article!
Kimia also plagiarized one of my newsletters, so I’m not surprised at all by this and it’s all very, very disappointing. She JUST changed the parts she plagiarized from me in her newsletter this morning ( I still have the screenshots of the plagiarism) I’m glad she changed it, I’ll take it as an admission of guilt AND I wish none of this ever happened to any of us.