Forum From The Archives: Celebrating Beauty Beyond the Gender Binary

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🗓️ 6 July 2022

⏱️ 56 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. This segment originally aired June 11, 2021 Guests: Kenneth Senegal, Beauty Entertainment influencer David Yi, founder and editor, Very Good Light -- a men's beauty publication; author, "Pretty Boys: Legendary Icons Who Redefined Beauty and How to Glow Up, Too" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:59.4	All this week on Forum, we're listening back to shows from our archives chosen by forum producers.
1:06.8	Today, Caroline Smith joins us to talk about Forum's conversation with David Yee and Kenneth Senegal in June of last year.
1:10.6	He's the author of the book Pretty Boys and Kenneth Senegal as a beauty influencer.
1:16.8	We talked about how more and more men and non-binary folk are publicly embracing makeup in their daily lives.
1:22.3	From social media figures like Patrick Starr, celebrities like Harry Styles, to the boy band BTS.
1:25.0	Farm is next. After this news.
1:39.2	This is Forum.
1:44.1	We're playing some of our favorite episodes from the Forum archives this holiday week, and I'm speaking with our show's producers to hear about the episodes they picked to replay.
1:48.5	Joining me now is Caroline Smith, one of our forum producers. Hi, Caroline.
1:52.6	Hey, Mina.
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