Uploaded November 2023 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
Did you miss out on our Milk exhibition? That's okay, because today we're bringing the museum to you đŹ
Sit back and enjoy a virtual tour of our critically acclaimed now-closed exhibition.
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Did you miss out on our Milk exhibition? That's okay, because today we're bringing the museum to you đŹ
Sit back and enjoy a virtual tour of our critically acclaimed now-closed exhibition.
Find us on Facebook: facebook.com/wellcomecollection
Follow us on Twitter: twitter.com/explorewellcome
See us on Instagram: instagram.com/wellcomecollection
![Emma Dabiri on how to break free from mainstream beauty ideals
How do filters and flawless selfies affect our personal ideas about beauty? And what can we do when social media makes us feel anything but beautiful?
Join Emma Dabiri, author, sociologist, and social media user, as she delves into the complexities of beauty standards accelerated by the digital age.
Dabiri offers five tips that have helped her break free from mainstream beauty ideals and redefine beauty on her own terms.
This video has been made to accompany The Cult of Beauty exhibition â showing at Wellcome Collection until 28 April 2024 â as well as the publication of Disobedient Bodies, a book written by Emma Dabiri and published by Wellcome Collection.
For more information on The Cult of Beauty: https://wellcomecollection.org/exhibitions/ZJ1zCxAAACMAczPA
For more information on Disobedient Bodies by Emma Dabiri: https://wellcomecollection.org/books/ZO7vDxEAACYAjU5t
0:00 - Intro
0:33 - Social media, self-esteem and representation
01:41 - Tip 1: focus more on inner beauty
02:11 - Tip 2: cultivate community
02:40 - Tip 3: recognise the importance of group activities
03:31 - Tip 4: surround yourself with beauty
04:02 - Tip 5: Dispense with the defect mindset
#TheCultOfBeauty #WellcomeCollection
Music: Nkisi, Lament II (instrumental)
*Artist credits:*
An Algorithmic Gaze II, 2023, by Cecilie Waagner FalkenstrĂžm: https://www.instagram.com/artificialmind_ai/
Steam, The Bully Pulpit, Haley Morris-Cafiero, 2019, Courtesy the artist and TJ Boulting: https://www.instagram.com/hmorriscafiero
Permissible Beauty, 2022, © RCMG / Soup Co [film stills] / © Robert Taylor [production stills] / Reproduced with permission of RCMG, University of Leicester/ Soup Co. [new photography] https://www.instagram.com/permissiblebeauty
âMirror, mirror on the wall, Beauty unravelled in the virtual scrollâ, Xcessive Aesthetics, 2023: https://www.instagram.com/xcessiveaesthetics
Beauty Sensorium, 2023, Renaissance Goo x Baum & Leahy, commissioned by Wellcome Collection: https://www.instagram.com/baumleahy and https://www.instagram.com/profjillburke Emma Dabiri on how to break free from mainstream beauty ideals](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/jIkwgV38L9Y/mqdefault.jpg)








![Its perfect for Deaf people like us â
Its perfect for Deaf people like us â
@jazzywhipps and @bennyngo_ paid a visit to â1880 THATâ, our new exhibition by @chrisunkim and @thomasmadertm exploring sign language and the right to communicate.
â1880 THATâ is free and open until April 2026. All works in the exhibition are accompanied by British Sign Language đ
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