Where’s My Shea Butter?!
How I survived obesity, high beauty standards, and a loss of control
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5 min readFeb 9, 2022
I’m in the break room at work. Two pumps of soap fall into my hand before I use my forearm to lift the faucet handle, a routine that I adopted in the worsening global pandemic. Living with chronically ashy hands — gray, cracked, and ugly — has broken my sense of control. I need to understand why.
