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Beauty Lessons


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?

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

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

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

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

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

6. Poetry
Look Poetry

7. Research
Look Research

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


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              • Mind & Middle E.
              • Mind & Police
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