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The difference between easy and difficult beauty (w/ Chloe Cooper Jones)

2023/4/24
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Chloe Cooper-Jones discusses her motivation to write 'Easy Beauty', emphasizing the importance of honesty and nuance in memoir writing, especially when addressing themes of disability and parenthood.

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Chloe Cooper Jones knows how it feels to be complicit. The critically acclaimed author has moved through life with a rare disability that brings incredible physical pain and plenty of outward judgment. And she’s even guilty of judging herself. But now, she’s challenging our ideas of motherhood, disability and beauty in her memoir, Easy Beauty. In this episode, she talks about using art to step outside of your own mind, sitting with difficult experiences, embracing the messy contradictions of the human experience, and more!