How to Divorce Yourself from Modern Beauty Standards with Emma Dabiri
Wrong Turns with Jameela Jamil
Jameela Jamil
4.7 • 3.8K Ratings
🗓️ 17 October 2023
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Jameela is joined this week by Irish-Nigerian bestselling author Emma Dabiri to find out where & why beauty standards started, how European philosophers created & influenced binary theory and what we can do to disconnect from these beauty standards. They discuss finding the pleasure in ritual and community, loving make-up (or not a la Pamela Anderson!), the importance and privilege of growing older and finding more ways to have value as modern women outside of appearance.
Emma’s book "Disobedient Bodies: Reclaim Your Unruly Beauty" is out now, and you can follow her on Twitter @emmadabiri and IG @emmadabiri
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to another episode of iWay, which made the gym out of podcast again shame. |
| 0:04.4 | I hope you're well and I hope you are ready for a real schooling about beauty because my guest |
| 0:11.8 | is a true expert on it. She's done her doctorate on it for goodness sake and she has a new book out |
| 0:16.4 | called Disobedient Bodies that really investigates the history of where all of our ideas about what |
| 0:23.5 | is beautiful and not what is good and not what people are supposed to look like where all of these |
| 0:28.3 | things come from and I think you know we have a kind of rough idea about that on the internet |
| 0:32.4 | that some of its link to patriarchy or some of its link to you know white supremacy and colonisation |
| 0:37.4 | but in this episode my guest really gets into the nitty gritty of exactly where it came from |
| 0:43.6 | when it started to happen around the world what the world looked like before all of this shit |
| 0:47.6 | that now has ruined most of our self-confidence and how we can start to understand these systems |
| 0:53.8 | in order to be able to break them as individuals. My guest is Emma Dabri she is an Irish Nigerian |
| 0:59.2 | best-selling author academic and broadcaster she's super smart super kind and so well educated |
| 1:07.3 | and researched that I had to fucking drink like three coffees before this episode just to just |
| 1:11.6 | to make sure that I was on my my game because she's just super clever. She's also outrageously |
| 1:17.4 | outrageously hot according to modern day beauty standards she's stunning fucking stunning so |
| 1:24.7 | it's very easy for you if you end up seeing a picture of her or you've seen any videos of her |
| 1:28.5 | before you listen to this chat to be like I'm fucking listening to someone who looks like a perfect |
| 1:32.8 | goddess tell me about beauty standards I talk about that with her we kind of challenge that |
| 1:38.8 | at the beginning of this episode to kind of get that shit out the way and and and address that |
| 1:43.2 | elephant in the room but I I do think that she has done so much extraordinary work to really unpack |
| 1:49.4 | this and that it is important to not dismiss people because of their face in any way and it's just |
| 1:55.7 | an excellent understanding of how we got to this mess in which the statistics on self-esteem |
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