...And the beauty of not falling in line. Ya'll asked, we complied: the desirability episode part 2! A special ask: if you liked what you heard and want this fully indie listener supported, currently pay-wall free, ad-free g-thang to continue, please consider becoming a patron: https://www.patreon.com/ihartericka or via Venmo: @Ericka-Hart, Paypal: ericka@ihartericka.com. Be sure to like, subscribe and share with your networks here and on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@ihartericka Thank you! The Episode: Conventionally Attractive: What else does the convention govern beside attraction? Conventionally attractive is just a euphemism for white eurocentric beauty ideals that white people themselves both control and regularly fail (and when they fail it, they shift the goalpost ever in their favor) -GOP-1s/GLP-1s: A global "rightward" conservative drift coinciding with a boon in the weight loss drug industry, a billion dollar social media attention economy focused mostly on how people look and a concurrent decline in advocacy for Congo, Sudan, Haiti and the ongoing genocidal violence against Black people in this country may be revealing an uglier truth about white supremacy than once thought before. Who has capital and who doesn’t all wrapped up in who is beautiful or not, another such binary created by the State Join us for Wretched Readers of the Earth Community Teach-ins Twice Monthly on Dr. Joy James' Resisting State Violence: Radicalism, Gender and Race! Sign up: https://www.patreon.com/c/ihartericka