Eve Eurydice speaks w Lori Kelly, academic librarian , philosophy teacher & member of the Paradise Commons artist collective which convenes to create femme centered spaces of collaborative creativity & study—its latest Paradise Summit Miami at Emerson Dorsch Gallery explored issues raised by Katherine Behar’s essay Facing Necrophilia: Botox Ethics. Eury & Lori speak of the aesthetics of aging, the financial gain of elective cosmetic enhancement & the financial advantage of choosing to change your body, the feminist potential in refusing to curate an appearance, the social connection & isolation wrought by somatic rearranging, the lessons of performing gender & the trans experience, the use of transformative medical technologies as examples for feminist thinking, the past & the future practices of ritual scarification, body modification, & adherence to or abstinence from the dominant heteronormative aesthetic & the coveted approval of its gaze. What are the ethics of redesigning a physical self to fit desire & desirability? Is it feminist to redesign a body just to claim pleasure? Is Pleasure Socially Constructed?