My Love-Hate Relationship with Email
Checking my emails has become as essential to my daily routine as eating breakfast. I treat my inbox like Instagram—frequently refreshing it to check if I’ve received feedback from my…
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How Capitalism Forces Us to Commodify Our Personal Lives
Writing is everything to me. When in doubt, rage, or confusion, I turn to my diary. It’s such a personal, sacred process, and I’ve wanted to pursue it as a…
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Don’t Call Rowing Blazers Founder Jack Carlson Preppy
Whether you saw it on an influencer or in a @starterpacksofnyc call-out post, Princess Diana’s iconic sheep sweater has been making the Instagram rounds lately. You can thank Rowing Blazers…
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Discovering My Sexuality, Alone in My Childhood Bedroom
Pink, yellow, and blue glowed on the screen of my iPhone 5c—I was transfixed by the colors. I was twelve years old, a middle school student in the fall of…
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Are Tastemakers the New Influencers?
What’s the point of posting a song you like on your Instagram Story? Is it simply a mindless act of self-expression, or are you secretly hoping for someone to swipe…
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What’s Private Is Public: Drawing the Ethical Line as a Personal Essayist
To me, writing often means putting into words the otherwise unutterable—to take messy knots of feelings and unravel them into a series of articulate sentences, hoping they’ll strike a chord…
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Stop Expecting “Sad Indie Girls” to Be Sad All the Time
You could say I’m “not like other girls,” just like the artists that fill up the majority of my Spotify playlists. Mitski, Phoebe Bridgers, Julien Baker, Lucy Dacus, Julia Jacklin,…
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Billie Eilish’s Documentary Closes the Gap Between Celebrities and Fans
Billie Eilish’s insular world is hardly unique—she bickers with her mother, is lectured by her father on the rules of the road in preparation for her first time driving alone,…
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Normalize Disliking People for No Particular Reason
Have you ever met someone and just thought to yourself, no, I’m good? Whether it be the sound of their voice, their mannerisms, or just their vibe in general, it…
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