I think we need to shift away from looking at beauty as only a interpersonal problem, and start recognizing it as a violent structure. The fact that so many women, especially black women struggle with their physical appearance does not exist in a vacuum

There are material and libidinal consequences for not being beautiful, and you cannot self-love or therapy your way out of violent structures! And this is not to say that it’s impossible to love yourself, or to feel at peace with how you look.

Even the phenomenon of understanding ourselves through physicality— the very idea of being as presence is western metaphysics (Descartes, Heidegger, Hegel). Your physical form being integrated into your understanding of yourself and your identity, is completely constructed

I think Oyewumi’s concept of world sense vs world view is very important to thinking about beauty / physicality. Even the idea of measuring the world thru the visual & material, is not innate to many pre-colonial cultures. What u looked like did not determine ur place in society