Shaved: Our Tangled Relationship With Body Hair
Anita learns the cultural and political history of body hair removal.
Embodied · Anita Rao
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Show Notes
Anita combs through her own tangled relationship with body hair and asks why so many of us invest time and money on removal methods.
Meet the guests:
- Scholar Rebecca Herzig explains when and why we started caring so much about body hair and how hair removal practices have evolved over the centuries.
- Sharan Dhaliwal, founder and editor-in-chief of Burnt Roti, talks about about coming to terms with being a hairy Indian woman.
- Photographer Kristie DeGaris shares how she's raising her daughters to think about their own body hair and trying to normalize NOT removing it.
- Anita's parents on how their upbringings and aging have shaped their views on body hair.