Objects Disobedient Bodies: Reclaim Your Unruly Beauty by Emma Dabiri

Published to accompany the Wellcome Collection’s major autumn exhibition, The Cult of Beauty, Disobedient Bodies offers alternative ways of seeing beauty, drawing on other cultures, worldviews, times and places, as well as looking beyond the capitalist model and forces of patriarchy. Written by Emma Dabiri, the bestselling author of Don’t Touch My Hair and What White People Can Do Next, this radical essay prompts the reader to rebel against society’s current beauty ideals, embrace our own unruly beauty and, above all, find joy in our disobedient bodies. Perfect for those that enjoy reading non-fiction with heft.