For Slate, I wrote about Karoline Leavitt and why the filler is so bad and how ugly politics can be reflected in extreme aesthetics:

“The strange case of Leavitt’s filler is an extreme, and perhaps unintentional, example of the sinister parallel between the political party currently limiting the bodily autonomy of women, trans people, and nonbinary people, and the self-regulation of the women tasked with selling that toxic agenda.”

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