My dear friend Danielle Evans is back again, this time to talk about body hair through the lens of her expertise in nervous system body work. While it may be true that there are more urgent battles than armpit hair, this conversation goes so far beyond surface level talk on self-acceptance and trash talking modern beauty standards. We explore women's desire to remain intact and fully expressed in spite of societal conditioning to become smaller, erase ourselves, and numb out.
Many will argue that shaving is a hygiene practice like clipping your toenails or brushing your teeth, but in actuality, hair removal practices are purely cultural, and have nothing to do with cleanliness. Whether influenced by the commercialized bodies in porn or mass culture, is it any wonder most people have never seen an adult woman’s body unaltered by hair removal? Or that body hair on women is seen as masculine, increasingly becoming associated with “nonbinary” and “trans” identities?
We hope that the ideas presented in this episode challenge you to consider your body hair as more than an aesthetic choice or preference and instead a part of your human physiology- a essential sensory tool for interfacing with your environment.
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