The staged self

Inside the curated performance of vulnerability and the cost to our self-image

Doesn’t it feel like every time you open a social media app, you’re faced with another image of an impossibly beautiful, perfectly posed, and often barely-there body? We’ve all been there: scrolling through endless feeds of what the algorithm decides is the “ideal” physique, often presented under the guise of “body positivity” or even a pseudo-naturist …