Iman Hariri-Kia: On Rewriting the Shame Teen Magazines Sold Us
Why did so many of us grow up believing we were too loud, too hairy, too much?
In this episode, journalist, author, and personal essayist Iman Hariri-Kia joins Alice to unpack how early media shaped our shame—and how she’s spent her adult life writing herself out of it. From reading Cosmo and Seventeen at an age when she barely understood her own body, to publishing her debut novel and watching it become eerily prophetic, Iman shares what it means to unlearn cultural conditioning, take up space on your own terms, and write the stories you never saw growing up.
They talk about beauty…
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