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vika's avatar

great interview! to add, i think interacting with older women (be that your grandmother, mother, or friends) especially in your community is a very healing way of learning to accept and celebrate aging/living. we need those community connections and we need to see 'normal' women/people aging to be able to truly become excited about getting older and growing into who we are as people. from a young age i have had great older women as role models and seen them age and live and it has definitely helped me resist a lot of the anti-aging marketing because i have grown up loving them as they are. it also resists the capitalist push to become more individualized, which definitely is a part of the anti-aging industry. just my 2 cents!

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SKsk's avatar

I want this interview to be in the Barbie movie instead of the "it's LITERALLY impossible to be a woman" speech. I loved reading this. You so clearly map out how "pro/anti-aging" rhetoric can warp a person's sense of autonomy. Botox isn't health! not even mentally! The positioning of beauty as health is dangerous and exhausting and I'm glad you addressed that here. love your work.

(note: i think the barbie speech was fine, in a hollywood way)

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