Within the age of makeover reality shows, the Fab Five’s assistance is just as individualistic and exclusive as the remaining, despite the emotional backstories
Netflix’s tagline for its 2018 hit reality show, Queer Eye, is: ‘Greater than only a makeover.’ The show is all about self-care, which is interpreted for its global audience as DIY grooming, healthy eating, and checking in with yourself. When Audre Lorde, a black lesbian activist, first used the term self-care in A Burst of Light – written after her cancer diagnosis – she was talking about self-preservation as an act of “political warfare”, a prioritising of the self in a world that wishes you to die. On Queer...
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