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    Everybody (Else) Is Perfect: How I Survived Hypocrisy, Beauty, Clicks, and Likes
    Everybody (Else) Is Perfect: How I Survived Hypocrisy, Beauty, Clicks, and Likes
    Everybody (Else) Is Perfect: How I Survived Hypocrisy, Beauty, Clicks, and Likes
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    Everybody (Else) Is Perfect: How I Survived Hypocrisy, Beauty, Clicks, and Likes

    Written by Gabrielle Korn

    Narrated by Gabra Zackman

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    From the former editor-in-chief of Nylon comes a provocative and intimate collection of personal and cultural essays featuring eye-opening explorations of hot button topics for modern women, including internet feminism, impossible beauty standards in social media, shifting ideals about sexuality, and much more.

    Gabrielle Korn starts her professional life with all the right credentials. Prestigious college degree? Check. A loving, accepting family? Check. Instagram-worthy offices and a tight-knit group of friends? Check, check. Gabrielle’s life seems to reach the crescendo of perfect when she gets named the youngest editor-in-chief in the history of one of fashion’s most influential publication. Suddenly she’s invited to the world’s most epic parties, comped beautiful clothes and shoes from trendy designers, and asked to weigh in on everything from gay rights to lip gloss on one of the most influential digital platforms.

    But behind the scenes, things are far from perfect. In fact, just a few months before landing her dream job, Gabrielle’s health and wellbeing are on the line, and her promotion to editor-in-chief becomes the ultimate test of strength. In this collection of inspirational and searing essays, Gabrielle reveals exactly what it’s truly like in the fashion world, trying to find love as a young lesbian in New York City, battling with anorexia, and trying not to lose herself in a mirage of women’s empowerment and Instagram perfection.

    Through deeply personal essays, Gabrielle recounts her struggles to reconcile her long-held insecurities about her body while coming out in the era of The L Word, where swoon-worthy lesbians are portrayed as skinny, fashion-perfect, and power-hungry. She takes us with her everywhere from New York Fashion Week to the doctor’s office, revealing that the forces that try to keep women small are more pervasive than anyone wants to admit, especially in a world that’s been newly branded as woke.

    From #MeToo to commercialized body positivity, Korn’s biting, darkly funny analysis turns feminist commentary on its head. Both an in-your-face take on impossible beauty standards and entrenched media ideals and an inspiring call for personal authenticity, this powerful collection is ideal for fans of Roxane Gay and Rebecca Solnit.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster Audio
    Release dateJan 26, 2021
    ISBN9781797107806
    Author

    Gabrielle Korn

    Gabrielle Korn is a journalist, digital media expert, and the former editor-in-chief of Nylon Media, an international lifestyle publication focused on emerging culture. Under her editorial leadership, Nylon became a fully digital brand with an ever-growing audience and original, politically-driven, thought-provoking beauty, fashion, music, and entertainment content. She spent three years working on Nylon’s digital presence before her promotion to editor-in-chief, working across platforms and growing traffic. Prior to that, she was an editor at Refinery29, overseeing beauty content during a period of explosive traffic growth and working to expand the brand’s concept of what beauty means to the millennial reader. She graduated from NYU’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study in 2011 with a concentration in feminist/queer theory and writing. She lives in Brooklyn.

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    • 5/5
      I couldn't not-give this book 5 starts. It stroke close to home, as some of the struggles with eating, body image and the patronizing in its rhetorics mainstream culture that Ms. Korn described, I could relate to and recognize in myself on a very deep level.

      Ms. Korn's writing is spot-on, and her words are poignant. Her arguments are thought-through, and this book is a mix of vulnerable self-expression and a sharing of diligently earned knowledge and expertise. Ms. Korn's private life does seem to be mirrored to at least seems to have affected her professional choices, and I think it's GREAT that she expresses this. Because we women are multi-faceted and these facets of our personalities mutually affect one another! We might be wearing different hats in different environments (work, social, romantic, etc) but we are full personas! And Ms. Korn's story is a beautiful celebration of all the ways one can be a woman.
    • 5/5
      One of the best memoirs I’ve read in a long time. Personal, intimate and interesting enough to keep one engaged. She also found a way to express profound observations on herself, interactions, society, ideals, standards, practices, etc. Within a relevant context that kept the book fascinating all the way through. This book is a great jumping off point for beginning to understand the female experience, female empowerment, sexism, and how it affects every single one of us. I hope to read more books from this author!