Decolonizing Beauty: Who Is Considered Beautiful? with Kaari Aubrey

How is beauty portrayed in the movies we watch? In the ads we are exposed to? Popular culture, or the dominant culture, has played a key role in defining the standards of beauty in America and across the globe. We celebrate blondness, fairness, blue-eyes, and slender figures (in women). What advantages and privileges are associated with these Western standards of beauty? How do beauty standards impact the ways we interact with each other? Let’s talk about the notion of beauty and how it is defined and represented in our present society. We will discuss how beauty is portrayed, personified, shaped, and challenged today.

This program is cohosted by Maricopa County Community College District – Gateway Community College – Library.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Kaari Aubrey is a writer, publisher, educator, and social entrepreneur with over a decade of design, facilitation, & startup experience. With years of personal and professional experience in Europe, West Africa and the Americas, she uses her unique, diverse communication and management skills to help communities & organizations grow into more authentic, efficient, inclusive, and joyful spaces. In 2022, she left the traditional classroom and founded the Other Suns Arts Collective, a creative digital publishing company which supports queer and BIPOC artists in expressing beautifully varied experiences through writing. Through this work, she has published workbooks, planners, poetry and nonfiction book with the intention of “writing to heal.”