Fashion, beauty, aesthetics and resistance

About this episode

Guilaine discusses her passion for fashion and its relation to her academic and clinical work, exploring themes of Black Feminism and resistance.

In today's episode Guilaine responds to a question about her updated biography, specifically her interest in fashion, beauty and aesthetics and how that informs or relates her academic and clinical work. She goes over the personal history of her passion for fashion, considers the relation between Black Feminist thinking and joy, the erotic, desire, self authorship and survival, thinks about how when you look at injustice, atrocity and suffering it is an act of resistance to also f...

People in this episode

Host: Guilaine

Topics covered

• fashion
• beauty
• aesthetics
• Black Feminism
• resistance
• self authorship

Keywords

• fashion
• beauty
• aesthetics
• Black Feminism
• resistance
• self authorship
• joy
• desire

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