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The Glittered Mask: Epistemic Unease and the Performative Feminine on TikTok

Dina-Perla Portnaar

I’m the last person who wants to tell women how to look. For centuries, religions and social norms have dictated images of femininity. Today, new groups join the chorus, performing womanhood as if it’s a costume. Still, I feel it: when I see women with immaculate fake nails, eyelashes that defy...