For too long, beauty has been entangled in the forces of patriarchy and capitalism: objectification, shame, control, competition and consumerism. We need to find a way to do beauty differently. 00Body hair. ?Fat? thighs. Something?s always ?too big?, another thing ?too small?. What part of your beautiful self were you taught to hate?00We spend a lot of time hiding our ?defects?, according to society?s ideals of beauty. Ideals that are often tyrannical, commercially entangled, homogenising and imposed upon us by oppressive systems that are further strengthened by our conditioned self-loathing.00This book will explore how to unpack, process, rebel and subvert - offering alternative ways of ?seeing? beauty, drawing on other cultures, worldviews, times and places, and looking beyond the capitalist model - to find the inherent joy in our disobedient bodies.00Accompanies a major exhibition at Wellcome Collection in autumn 2023.