![]() In an attempt to carve out a space in a conversation that has previously excluded her, Easy Beauty sees Cooper Jones embark on a quest to re-negotiate her perception of beauty – both the concept itself and the way she’s forgotten in it. ![]() Born with a rare spinal condition called sacral agenesis, Cooper Jones has lived her life having to contend with not only her own physical limitations and chronic pain, but with the restrictions and definitions placed onto her body by others. Weaving together aesthetic philosophy, art history, travel writing and personal narrative, Easy Beauty is a confronting and eye-opening exploration of beauty from someone who exists on the periphery of our cultural beauty ideals. Not the first time it’s been discussed as though separate from her, the person sat right there, listening as friends, colleagues or strangers evaluate her existence, dismissing her perspective in the name of “objectivity”. It’s not the first time her body – its autonomy and inherent value – has been discussed in front of her. So begins Easy Beauty, the debut book and genre-bending memoir from philosophy professor and Pulitzer Prize-finalist writer Chloé Cooper Jones. ![]() ![]() “I am in a bar in Brooklyn, listening to two men, my friends, discuss whether my life is worth living.” ![]()
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