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Hollywood Has Long Reserved One Face for Evil. It’s mime.
For 32 years, I’ve watched characters with faces like mine—burned, scarred, visibly different—cast as villains or pitiful outcasts. Long before I knew the word “trope,” I felt the sting of seeing the victim wear a prosthetic face like mine in darkened theaters. In 2016, I began researching how facial disfigurement is portrayed in film and…
Read MoreAdvertising Excludes Women With Faces Like Mine
Read this two part series by Charlene Pell linked here.
Read MoreAn Insider’s Point of View
We live in a society obsessed with outward beauty. We are bombarded with media images of airbrushed celebrities who give us unrealistic expectations of the “perfect image”. If you have a facial or physical difference that causes you to look out of the ordinary, odds are that you have been the target of social challenges,…
Read MoreRedefining and Valuing Beauty
Article source, Lake Norman Women, Sept. 2014 The mind, body, and spirit are intimately connected. People often tell me I’m Beautiful, yet my scarred appearance doesn’t meet any of the universal patterns of beauty. How is it that others find me “beautiful”? Society seems to relegate those of us with facial differences to the outskirts.…
Read MoreAn Inside Look at Being Outside of Ordinary
“Of all the things that you wear, your expression is the most important.” –Janet Lane If you have a facial or physical difference that causes you to look out of the ordinary, odds are that you have been the target of a stare. Your “response,” not “reaction” to a stare often determines the outcome of…
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