With hundreds of advertisements depicting fair-skinned women removing their body hair from an already hairless, smooth hand or a (shapely and toned) calf, it’s refreshing to see art that subverts the idea that body hair makes women ‘less feminine’.
In a series of illustrations, Ayqa Khan, a Pakistani photographer and digital illustrator based in New York, shatters constructs surrounding the body, especially taboos about female body hair. Read the full story here.
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