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31 Jan

This book explores what it’s wish to navigate beauty

Chloé Cooper Jones discusses her debut book Easy Beauty – an eye-opening exploration of beauty from someone who exists on the periphery of our cultural beauty ideals “I'm in a bar in Brooklyn, listening to 2 men, my friends, discuss whether my life is price living.” So begins Easy Beauty, the debut book and genre-bending memoir from philosophy professor and Pulitzer Prize-finalist author Chloé Cooper Jones. It’s not the primary time her body – its autonomy and inherent value – has been discussed in front of her. Not the primary time it’s been discussed as if separate from her, the person sat right there, listening as friends, colleagues or strangers evaluate her existence, dismissing...
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