Beauty Lessons

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Your words have so much power.
Every day, if you tell yourself
'I love you,'
if you give yourself
one word of validation,
​it will change your mind.

— Ashley Graham

Big Questions:  

1. Is a person's success influenced by physical appearance?
2. Are some groups more impacted by lookism than others?
3. Based on looks - how do words and actions affect us?

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1. Self Perception: 
Explore the concepts and standards of attractiveness  you have and how you think you "measure up".

Self Perception

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2. Lookism Bias & Shame
Explore the concepts of
​colorism, weightism and ageism.
​Self-reflection on body positivity and lookism bias and shame.

Lookism Bias

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3. Lookism: Ugly
Explore the concept of ugliness, biases against people who are deemed unattractive and the possible legal ramifications.
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Lookism: Ugly

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4. Lookism: Beauty
Identify the term Eurocentric beauty.
Analyze where and how we see it in society
and our responses to it.

Lookism: Beauty

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5. Lookism: Hair
Explore reasons for the hairstyles we choose to wear.
​Analyze how society responds to different hairstyles.

Lookism: Hair

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6. Poetry

Look Poetry

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7. Research

Look Research

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Go to Look Lookism

Photo credit: Free the fro Evan Welch. Mask Joanna Atkinson,Gambian Girl,
​Joe Rodd, On the beach by Ned Benjamin, Girl with braids by David Nels