This prompted an odyssey across time and space as Chloé – while at museums, operas, concerts and sporting events, and in the presence of awe-inspiring nature – reconsidered the consciousness-shifting power of beauty. When she became pregnant (disproving her doctor, who had assumed it impossible), something necessary in her started to crack, forcing her to reckon with her defensive positionality to the world and the people in it. 12.1K subscribers Recorded In conversation with Isaac Fitzgerald Freelance journalist Chlo Cooper Jones was a 2020 Pulitzer Prize finalist in feature writing for Fearing for His. ‘Challenges the unspoken social taboos about the disabled body, unpacking myths of beauty and our complicity in upholding those myths’ Lit Hubīorn with sacral agenesis, a visible congenital disability that affects her stature and gait, Chloé Cooper Jones had always found solace in what she thought of as ‘the neutral room’ – a dissociative space in her mind that offered her solace and self-protection, but also kept her isolated. ‘Gorgeously, vividly alive’ New York Times Easy Beauty by Chloe Cooper Jones - 9781982152000 Book Depository is closing Categories: Biography: General Autobiography: General Memoirs Ethical Issues: Scientific & Technological Developments Science: General Issues Impact Of Science & Technology On Society Coping With Disability Share Easy Beauty : A Memoir 4. ‘An exquisite exploration of disability, identity and the human capacity to do (and be) more than we’ve ever dreamed’ Time FINALIST FOR THE 2023 PULITZER PRIZE FOR MEMOIR
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