So Who's Attractive Anyway?

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In this episode, our new co-host Nontsi discusses the shift in beauty standards in South Africa with Lindelani. In the country being light-skinned was associated with attractiveness and privilege for a long time, but the perception is changing in favour of dark-skinned people. The conversation was Inspired by Ken Mondschein’s “</span><a href= "https://www.medievalists.net/2020/06/fatness-thinness-middle-ages/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Fatness and Thinness in the Middle Ages</span></a><span style= "font-weight: 400;">”.</span><span style= "font-weight: 400;"><br /></span><span style= "font-weight: 400;"><br /></span><a href= "https://www.nontsi.com/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Nontsi Mapoma</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">is the creative director of</span> <a href= "https://thelistener.co/"><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Listener</span></em></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">and</span> <a href="https://thebrowser.com/"><em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">The Browser</span></em></a><span style= "font-weight: 400;">.</span></p>