Description

Shaving, waxing, threading, lasering. There are too many ways to remove body hair - so Thea and Asina try to unpack why we treat our body hair the way we do. In this week's episode, the hosts give a historical rundown of body hair removal, talk about gender performance (and Judith Butler), and apply an intersectional lens to the subject.

Sources

• Shamed for body hair growing up, Desi women now challenging racist standards
• Hairy And Proud: Body Hair Removal Through A Feminist Lens
• The Hairless Ideal: Women and Their Body Hair - Susan A. Basow, 1991
• The new feminist armpit hair revolution: half-statement, half-ornament | Life and style | The Guardian
• DREADED "OTHERNESS": Heteronormative Patrolling in Women's Body Hair Rebellions
• Can the Feminist Body Hair Movement be Intersectional? - Girls' Globe
• A History Of Body Hair Removal And Distorted Body Image
• Performative Acts and Gender Constitution: An Essay in Phenomenology and Feminist Theory (Butler)