“Fuck traditional standards of beauty,” I raged, as I enrolled in my first gender-studies class at USC and listened to Tegan and Sara with a vegan, Whole Foods checkout girl from the Valley, who introduced me to probiotics, cultured enzymes, and not shaving my armpits.
Back then, I wanted to take myself out of the destructive beauty pageant that is being a young-adult female — to say with my hair, or lack thereof, what I couldn’t say with words (which was some convoluted manifesto about sexual orientation, feminism, rebellion, and my true, creative identity).
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