Julia Roberts displays a (gasp!) hairy armpit at the ‘Notting Hill’ premiere in 1999 – it’s still considered a radical act (Shutterstock) Speculation about her motives ranged from it being a radical ...

From an early age, we learn about the ways we can remove body hair rather than how we can embrace it. Despite seeing a shift in how we talked about body hair in the 2010s (remember people dying their ...

This post was co-authored by Jessica Sutherland. The changing norms of body hair removal are dramatic and illustrative. I have written previously about the rise in body hair removal as the "canary in ...

Many people see their body hair choices as reflections of their gender, sexuality, and femininity. Patriarchal standards deem body hair like thick hair on arms or faces as "manly" or "unfeminine." ...

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