Opinion
What's gone wrong with body positivity?
For all our veneration of the body positivity movement, we don’t really seem to have made any progress at all
05 December 2021 - 00:00
When I reminisce about the early 2000s, even the 2010s, sometimes I’m struck by how far we’ve come in diversifying and challenging prominent beauty standards. I dare you to revisit any popular sitcom from around this period...
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