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Forum From the Archives: Celebrating Beauty Beyond the Gender Binary

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🗓️ 8 July 2021

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

From celebrities like Harry Styles and the members of boy band BTS to social media beauty influencers like Patrick Starrr and Kenneth Senegal, more and more men and nonbinary folk are publicly embracing makeup in their daily lives. And as author and journalist David Yi argues in their new book, the male beauty influencers of today have ancient cultural precedents. “Pretty Boys” traces male beauty figures throughout history, from Ramses the Great to ‘80s glam rockers to drag culture newly entering the mainstream. We’ll hear about how beauty influencers, both past and present, have explored gender through makeup.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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and we're bringing you some of our favorite shows from our archives. Today, we listen back to our show

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on non-binary beauty, from celebrities like Harry Styles and boy band BTS to social media influencers

1:40.6

like Patrick Starr and Kenneth Senegal. more men and non-binary folk are publicly

1:45.3

embracing makeup in their daily lives. And as author David Yee points out in their new book, Pretty

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Boys, male beauty influencers existed long ago. We hear how figures of male and non-binary

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beauty, past and present, explore gender through makeup. Join us. This is Forum. I'm Mina Kim.

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Farm's 10 AM hour is off this Fourth of July week, and we're bringing you some of our favorite

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episodes from the archives, including today's pick, which is all about male and non-binary

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beauty.

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David Yee writes in their new book, Pretty Boys, We're living in a day and age where exuberant

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