Beauty alone won't save us, but what we do with it might | Kei Graves, PhD | TEDxWCC

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What if beauty becomes a practice to help us survive these times? In a world shaped by political division, collective grief, and social fragmentation, Dr. Kei Graves argues that our judgments about beauty and ugliness draw the very lines that connect or divide us. Drawing on aesthetic philosophy and his book, Beyond Beauty: Aesthetic Philosophy as a Tool for Liberatory Education, he invites us to widen what we can hold as beautiful, human, and worthy of our attention as a means of reconnection and co-creating the kind of world we want to live in. Dr. Kei Graves, is a Humanities and Global Studies faculty member at WCC and a first-generation college graduate. Drawing on an interdisciplinary background in the arts, humanities, and education, he explores how beauty can act as a form of reconnection in a world shaped by fragmentation and grief. His work considers the ways institutions, communities, and identities are shaped by the judgments we make about what is beautiful and what is not.

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