REVIEW: Decolonising My Body: A Radical Exploration of Rituals and Beauty by Afua Hirsch @afuahirsch explores how Eurocentric beauty standards have shaped global perceptions of female attractiveness and self-worth. Written by an award-winning UK journalist of British and Ghanaian ancestry, the book charts the author's one year journey of radial unlearning. Hirsch questions the white colonial gaze on womanhood and female beauty. Supplemented by captivating illustrations, the author provides personal anecdotes and interviews with experts on range of matters from body hair, beauty customs, and body modification rituals. The first chapter explores the role of menstruation and the cultural rituals surrounding it. Chapter two investigates societal attitudes towards body hair and feminine beauty ideals. The author presents different cultural attitudes towards female sexuality in the third chapter, including the eroticism of African waistbeads in Ghana, Arabian erotology texts in Morocco, and the Western fascination/fetishism with large female buttocks. The final chapter explores tattoos, before an epilogue on death. Decolonsing My Body is well worth a read to empower women and enlighten those of interest.