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#266: The Botox Psyop - by Haley Nahman - Maybe Baby

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In early January, the author Emmeline Clein asked if I’d like to talk with her for a story she was working on for The Cut. It was “about Botox/‘anti-aging’ rhetoric with regards to feminism.” Last year, I’d read and loved her book Dead Weight, and since then we’d become friendly online.

In early January, the author Emmeline Clein asked if I’d like to talk with her for a story she was working on for The Cut. It was “about Botox/‘anti-aging’ rhetoric with regards to feminism.” Last year, I’d read and loved her book Dead Weight, and since then we’d become friendly online. I also knew we were ideologically aligned regarding the beauty industry. “Was just reading your limits of destigmatization of cosmetic surgery essay,” she DM’d me after I posted about her book in March of 2025. “I’m trying to write something re: our demented moment’s relationship to plastic surgery.” I was…

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