TikTok, Tumblr, and What It Means to Be a Modern-Day Queer
Since the dawn of Tumblr theory and ideology, the question of what goes into being queer has plagued the internet. Growing up on the blogging site placed many ideas in…
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TikTok’s Chrissy Chlapecka Is Redefining the Bimbo for Gen Z
While she’s ostensibly the most popular creator on BimboTok, Chrissy Chlapecka didn’t refer to herself as a bimbo until her TikTok followers did. To be fair, commenters weren’t shaming her;…
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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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For Queer, Depressed 20-Somethings, Phoebe Bridgers Is Our Savior
Alone in my room, screaming along to Phoebe Bridgers’ “I Know the End,” I tried to push away the heat of August, folding it into the strong wind of depression…
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Swift’s Secret Lovers: Intention, Perception, and Artistic Interpretation
I don’t know about you, but I’ve spent a large portion of quarantine renting my headspace to Taylor Swift. With a constant stream of her albums on repeat, I’ve inadvertently…
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10 WLW Films That Aren’t White Period Dramas
There’s been a long withstanding debate on the internet—specifically Twitter—over whether there are enough LGBT films featuring people of color. With the release of the first trailer of Francis Lee’s…
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It’s Deeper Than Daisies: Marxism, Cottagecore, and Aesthetic Resistance
Sunlight streaming through the treetops, fresh bread baking, baby animals frolicking in fields—these are just a few of the images that characterize cottagecore, an emerging internet subculture dedicated to a…
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