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  "description": "Poem | Bonus Post | Beauty Industry BS",
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  "textContent": "Style Understatement | by Shivangi Sharma\n\n0:00\n\n/94.365396\n\n1×\n\nI was never a stylish girl\n\nShoes always only about comfort\n\nSweatpants often the fashion statement\n\nA passionate non-believer in beauty product claims, or often the point\n\nA cream that is 90% water?\n\nDon't bother with bottling\n\nI will get that from my tap, thank you!\n\nGive me a book over makeup any day\n\nI can live for days without a mirror\n\nI might doll up when I want\n\nBut don’t ask me to, I will question your depth\n\nClothes without pockets are sheer waste\n\nWe need those pockets even if to keep our disparity ridden salaries\n\nI am not the one to lug a bag if not needed\n\nThe ones engraved with the initials of some random guy\n\nlike MK, CK…what the FCUK\n\n…that is patriarchy selling for thousands of dollars\n\nOr something equally bad\n\nThe brave part of me is happy getting older\n\nI am close to putting an end\n\nto eyebrow shaping trauma for good\n\nAnd I will finally not care two hoots\n\nI have already mustered the indifference to stop dying my grey hair\n\nThe future looks quite bright from where I stand\n\n* * *\n\nAuthor, multilingual poet, and mad lover of words, **Shivangi Sharma** ’s writing has been featured at the Frankfurt Book Fair,  _The Wall Street Journal_ , and  _The Asian Age_ , among other places. She lives in the Netherlands with her family in a house overflowing with books and ideas.\n\n* * *\n\n****MR is an autonomous RadMatFem project.****\n\n****Tip for the contributors!****\n\n PAY WOMEN FOR WORK \n\nYou asked for it, we answered!!\n\nComments are open to all members.\nLet's discuss all the things!\n\n### Thank you for supporting this project.\nWe're honored to be in this work with you.\n\n\nReach out anytime for any reason: info@medusarising.org.\n\n**( ^-^)ノ∠※。.:*:・'°☆ ( ^-^)ノ∠※。.:*:・'°☆ ( ^-^)ノ∠※。.:*:・'°☆**",
  "title": "Style Understatement | by Shivangi Sharma",
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