If It’s Only Skin Deep… Why Should I Want To Be Beautiful?

Katherine Kane
Katsemantics
Published in
5 min readAug 30, 2022

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This piece was published many years ago (in a simpler time), on a defunct online magazine called Intrepid Media, and I use it as a writing sample for job apps occasionally. But upon reading this piece by Helen VanPatterson-Patton, I decided to put it back out into the world.

https://helenvpp.medium.com/you-dont-wake-up-one-day-hating-your-body-and-you-don-t-wake-up-one-day-loving-it-32c28ae35faf

Can someone explain this to me?

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Katherine Kane
Katsemantics

It all fits together. Linguistically driven, writing since pre-K, aphantasiac, student older than my profs. mobility challenged, Comp. Sex-Ed advocate.