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Shamed for body hair growing up, Desi women now challenging racist standards

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Photo Courtesy Sai Seshadri
Photo Courtesy Sai Seshadri
Sai Seshadri as a teenager |

When white models and influencers decided thick eyebrows were in, South Asian women struggled to recover the natural features they had been shamed into thinning. Now, they’re undoing the internalized shame they’ve felt about their body hair for years.

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