Status Updates From Pixel Flesh: How Toxic Beau...

The pursuit of beauty is an entirely rational one. One that we are given little choice but to pursue. These girls know it at thirteen, just as I know it at twenty-eight.

'There's something transformative in the collective, about the idea that there are lots of different women across lots of different identity lines who have realised that they can't win, and therefore don't even try to abide by those rules and systems anymore. Even though we will all get punished, there's something wonderful in the realisation that the entire game is rigged against us all.'

"Your body is always defined by the value it can hold for somebody else, either for the purposes of sexual gratification or for the purposes of bearing life. Instead of saying how your body deserves to be revered because it created life, what we should say is that your body deserves to be revered because it is life."