Reclaiming UGLY! Audiobook Libro.fm

Flip the script on how you think about UGLYwhat it means what it is and how to reclaim it to Uplift Glorify and Love Yourself in an uglified world

Blending joyful selfhelp magic with incisive social analysis and personal narrative Vanessa Rochelle Lewis empowers readers to heal connect and revolt against uglification

Uglification is ugly weaponized a tool ideology and type of oppression that designates some bodies as more or less worthy of love respect access and dignity It defines whos accepted in what spaces which identities are marginalized and how we all move through the worldand is part and parcel of systems like white supremacy ableism sizeism sexism and queer and transphobia Here Lewis takes on uglification showing us how reclaiming UGLY is a subversive act that roars an unapologetic yes to joy healing and communitybuilding in a world thats engineered to hold us back

Lewis asks us to go beyond analysis inviting us to boldly perform UGLY as an act of rebellion liberation and radical selflove Through selfhelp exercises reflective meditations and lesson plans Lewis moves us closer to a collective liberation that takes back what society tells us is ugly and tabooand teaches us to deconstruct what weve told ourselves is ugly and taboo In sharing her analysis personal journey and activity toolkit Lewis offers a warm embrace and compassionately guides us toward lives of radical selfacceptance joyful communitycentered healing and unfiltered selflove