Isn't she Beautiful, from head to her remaining toes
posted by angrylush at 4:51 PM
Isn't she radiant? Everyone has the right to be beautiful, and according to the creator of the 2009 Miss Landmine Cambodia website, Morten Traavik, after a post-civil war visit to Angola and seeing a homemade beauty pagent, he decided it was time to put his "middle-class whiteboy priviledge" on hold and do something to make a difference. The Miss Landmine Cambodia contest is on the surface an evokative global Landmine awareness program, but spend a few minutes perusing the site and you quickly realize it's more about female pride, disabled pride and empowerment more than anything. The provokative images of Cambodian amputees captured by fashion photographers is meant to question our established concepts of beauty more than shock us. Morten wishes to "replace the passive term Victim with the active term Survivor". A copy of a Landmine Survivor's Fashion Magazine can be downloaded here.
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Noah, I posted this on your FB book page, but I'm reposting it here because I can ;-)
I couldn't help notice that almost every contestant lists her future ambition as "running a business," which makes me wonder if they wouldn't be better served by a program that empowers them financially rather than aesthetically. Y'know? Not that making ladies feel beautiful isn't important or anything, but self-sufficiency makes one feel pretty damn hot.
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