I appreciate the work of Afua Hirsch. Her work is usually reflective, involving a level of personal analysis of her own life and heritage alongside her commentary on various issues (race, gender, identity). This reflection is the main narrative through this book as she analyses various dominant Western (European?/Global cultural?) beliefs about the body, looking at beauty, sexuality, skin (tatoos), and even death. It feels like a more personal continuation of her previous work Brit(ish) focusing on her own journey to understand these as she enters […]