You're Beautiful (no matter what they say)

Cursed Objects

We're baaaack! And we're feeling FIT, while also reassuring you that it's what's inside that counts.

Kasia and Dan return with a new series, where today we're talking about the beauty industry, vanity and gender, and - following a Cursed Objects outing to the Wellcome Collection's new exhibition The Cult of Beauty - early modern German wife-prettying windmill technology.

From the masterful make-up artists of Glow Up: Britain's Next Make-Up Star to the hall of rubbish mirrors of the Palace of Versailles, this episode has it all. We also hear about the beauty industry exhibits in the Museum of Transology – as liberatory objects that affirm a sense of self in a culture that would too often deny it to trans people.

Also: if pretty privilege is really a thing, shouldn’t the parliamentary Conservative Party be a party of hotties?

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Theme music and production: Mr Beatnick

Artwork: Archie Bashford