Womankind

No self in the age of selfies

Her selfie is worthy of a fashion advertisement. It’s stylised, cropped, and retouched. Her head is thrown back, her teeth glitter, and a mane of sparkling hair cascades to her shoulders.

Beneath the image on her social media page is a number, 322 - her day’s quota of ‘likes’. It’s higher than yesterday’s quota, of 234, but falls well short of Monday’s quota, of 541, when she posted a photograph of her

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