Pit Hair

Charlotte Free doesn’t shave her armpits. Just photographs them and lets them exist, which apparently is radical. Beauty culture’s whole apparatus is designed to make you feel ashamed of your own body—there’s always something to fix, remove, sand down. Free doesn’t participate. The refusal is casual, almost offhand, which makes it more interesting than if she’d made it a whole thing. She’s just living in a way the world wasn’t expecting her to, and that matters.