Most are familiar with Victoria Secret's concept of beauty. I applaud Shaunda Rhimes and Dove's Real Beauty campaign for breaking new ground in describing it more fully. Do they go far enough? What if culture defined the concept of beauty this way? I admire what Ria Sharma is doing to redefine it for a group of women in India. Her clients are acid attack survivors who receive legal, emotional, …
Culture
The Space Between and the Migration of Identity
Yes, the title is my nod to the Dave Matthews band. In a recent article for the Anxious Bench, I discuss international migration and identity formation. "If history has taught us anything, should it have taught us humility, to hesitate before being so sure of ourselves? Broadly speaking, this book heralds that message. I discuss the concept of identity, that self-understanding of who we think we …