Recently e.g.o.magazine sat down with the amazing Celeste Tesoriero from Sonzai Studio and Ismeen Ashiry to talk about their initiative, ‘love your mama’. Sonzai Studios is a leading sustainable fashion consultancy, founded on the ethos of making sustainability sexy and simple. Founded by designer-turned-sustainability-expert Celeste Tesoriero, Sonzai empowers brands to embrace a more sustainable future…
Author: Jaya Prisco
Plastic Surgery and Beauty Standards: An interview by e.g.o.magazine
E.g.o. sat down with doctor and author Jack Zoumaras @drjz_ from @artisteplasticsurgery to discuss the advancing trends, impacts and qualities the plastic surgery industry continues to mask on individuals and within our society. More information on the topic can be found in Doctor Zoumaras’ book ‘The Art of a Facelift’.
Plastic surgery and beauty standard
Aesthetic Beauty Beauty is by large a social construct. Social constructs are carried and manifested through social institutions that impress themselves on populations, transmuting often unspoken beliefs about is and aughts into conventional wisdoms and actionable truths. Whilst some social constructs and the institutions they flow through are relatively benign, the concept of objective beauty is one…
Dolled Up
Featured September 28th 2023 • Jaya Prisco • Mason MacKenzie • Toby Wilkinson • Mimi • Candice Rule • Chiselled face, prettiest of them all.Dripping diamonds, sold your soul.Avaricious surgeons pump you with plastic; moulded like clay, but surgical markings and scalpel carvings won’t cut the pain away.The scars on your body are scars to your heart;…
Educating women in Afghanistan
Afghani women have the right to education too! How one woman was able to give women and young girls access to the gift of education. Her school is attempts to heal tribal and gender divisions.
Women’s rights in Afghanistan: what worked, what didn’t, and why
As the last American troops left Afghanistan in August 2021, the Taliban, a regime that the U.S spent 20 years and billions of dollars fighting, returned to power. Women’s rights activists and legislators fled the country in fear for their lives. The Taliban banned girls from attending high school & college. How did we get…
Afghani women and humans’ rights
The US and Allied forces withdrawal from Afghanistan after 20 years of a war that had come to “have no clear purpose” was one of the most sensational and dramatic events in modern times. Images of would-be refugees of the war-ravaged country clinging to the sides of American cargo planes proliferated across the internet, penetrating…
Staying connected
If you think about any piece of pop culture about the future, it takes place in a city. Whether we realize it or not, when we imagine the future, we picture cities, and that idea is all the more problematic when it comes to who benefits from technological change and who does not. This episode…
The future of work
If artificial intelligence can do certain tasks better than we can, what does that mean for the concept of work as we know it? We will cover human-AI collaboration in the workplace: what it might look like, what it could accomplish and what policy needs to be put in place to protect the interests of…
Sorry, your phone says you have anxiety
How will certain new standards for data sharing and surveillance during the COVID-19 pandemic impact the future of healthcare? In episode two of Consequential’s two-part deep-dive on pandemics, public health and privacy.