Can you recommend any writers/thinkings who discuss living with a sense of physical ugliness, that goes beyond generic body positivity?
Since I am both drunk and utterly content sure sure. I’m not body positive, not really in the way it is written about. I do appreciate it though I’m more interested in ugliness and other things. Here is a preliminary syllabus.
Swole Without a Goal by my man Anshuman
Meg Elison’s essay for the establishment
Obviously Leslie Jamison’s essay on pain
Ragini’s essay for Rookie: “Beauty paled before me: I was radiant and terrible as the sun.” 😩✨💕
This essay on endometriosis
Not an essay but by an essayist, maggie nelson for machine project
Tobin Siebers in conversation with mike levin on disability and beauty is one of my favorite and most precious mind-twins
Preorder Melissa Broder’s Last Sext, it is so good, I keep rereading it
Alice Notley is essential (no house in beauty or power/just myself)
Niina’s Dead Horse is so good i hate it so much (the ultimate arabelle compliment)
If you don’t already own Bhanu Kapil’s works you require all of it, particularly Incubation and Humanimal (undoubtedly my #1 fave poet and influence)
Comics: Monstress and The Beauty
That should keep you busy for awhile
tangentwithtanner
snowghoul
kaledo-art
dededos
turnnoffyourmind
pixelskylines
stormborns
