"While we discuss beauty freely and often, ugliness is rarely spoken about. Something about the word feels taboo. Yet underlying the products we're sold to look beautiful and the rituals we're advised to follow are an effort to stay far away from what might be considered 'ugly' . . . Hilal implores us to think about what we've learned about ugliness throughout our lives and the history these ideas are steeped in."

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Dazed Magazine