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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
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Reclaiming Ugly!: A Radically Joyful Guide to Unlearn Oppression and Uplift, Glorify, and Love Yourself

Reclaiming Ugly!: A Radically Joyful Guide to Unlearn Oppression and Uplift, Glorify, and Love Yourself

Lewis, Vanessa Rochelle

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General Racism & Ethnic StudiesSelf-HelpWomen's Studies

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ISBN10: 1623175860
ISBN13: 9781623175863
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
Published: Jan 23 2024
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.94
Height: 0.52 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Flip the script on how you think about UGLY--what it means, what it is, and how to reclaim it to Uplift, Glorify, and Love Yourself in an uglified world.

Blending joyful self-help 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 who's accepted in what spaces, which identities are marginalized, and how we all move through the world--and 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 community-building in a world that's 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 self-love. Through self-help exercises, reflective meditations, and lesson plans, Lewis moves us closer to a collective liberation that takes back what society tells us is ugly and taboo...and teaches us to deconstruct what we've 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 self-acceptance, joyful community-centered healing, and unfiltered self-love.

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