Beauty | The Walrus

The Decade in Us

December 24, 2019February 21, 2020 - by The Walrus Staff

From building a life without kids to why shared work offices are the worst, these are the conversations that helped define Canada

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First Person / Society

Beauty Standards Are a Rigged Game

November 21, 2019November 26, 2019 - by Sarah Trick

If I couldn’t be seen as both disabled and beautiful, I decided I’d win by becoming “the smart one”

The Beauty Conversation

July 29, 2019June 27, 2020 - by The Walrus Staff

Appearance shapes the way the world sees us. But what does it say about who we really are? The Walrus contributors consider how we disrupt, define, and ultimately celebrate what we see in the mirror

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The Beauty Conversation

The Year I Went Bald

July 29, 2019July 31, 2019 - by Sarah Weinman

First, cancer took my work identity. Then it took my hair

The Beauty Conversation

The Impossible Beauty Standards for Transgender Women

July 29, 2019July 31, 2019 - by Tranna Wintour

I face a lot of pressure to be ultrafeminine—and I’m tired of it

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The Beauty Conversation

Why I Shared My Nude Photos on the Internet

July 29, 2019October 3, 2019 - by Sam Juric

I used to hate looking at my body. Then I decided to post my naked pictures on Instagram

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The Beauty Conversation

The Price of Being Pretty

July 29, 2019September 30, 2019 - by Téa Mutonji

Growing up, my friends and I thought being beautiful would make our lives easier. But beauty only made things more difficult

Books / May 2005

Confusing, Vexing, And Beautiful

May 12, 2005May 5, 2020 - by David Byrne

David Byrne turns the deadly sins on their head to say something new about the world