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Donna Missal’s Quarantine Creation: Introducing “sex is good (but have you tried)”

I started listening to Donna Missal just over a year ago, after a friend introduced me to her searing 2018 single “Keep Lying.” The song stayed on repeat for weeks.…

Sex & Love

Somebody Tell Sixteen-Year-Olds Choking Isn’t Vanilla

Life

How 3 AM Googling Convinced Me That We’re Living in a Simulation

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5 min

Life

TikTok Is Offering a Community for Ex-Mormons Everywhere

Exactly how I ended up on ex-Mormon TikTok eludes me, but I’m happy I made it here. While I’m not a member of the Church of Latter-Day Saints (LDS), one…

Life

Gen Z, Stop Glamorizing Old Money

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5 min

Culture & Entertainment

Redefining Celebrity as Distance Disappears

In 2017, a 16-year-old girl named Emma Chamberlain uploaded her first YouTube video. The city-inspired lookbook, filled with a mid-2010s array of Brandy Melville and Pacsun, has now amassed almost…

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4 min

Culture & Entertainment

Let’s Stop Glorifying Men in Maid Outfits

In a TikTok with almost 2 million likes, user @plumsoju laments to the camera, “You say you want boys in a maid outfit. Why am I still single? Where’s my…

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5 min

Life

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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4 min

Fashion & Beauty

TikTok and the Never-Ending Perpetuation of Thrifted Glam

Up until about three weeks ago, I was a staunch TikTok skeptic. I refused to download the app, citing it as a mega-waste of time and something that I didn’t…

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Donna Missal’s Quarantine Creation: Introducing “sex is good (but have you tried)”

How 3 AM Googling Convinced Me That We’re Living in a Simulation

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My Love-Hate Relationship with Email

Have You Thought About Your Neighbors Today?

How Capitalism Forces Us to Commodify Our Personal Lives

Don’t Call Rowing Blazers Founder Jack Carlson Preppy

Trending posts

My Love-Hate Relationship with Email

Have You Thought About Your Neighbors Today?

How Capitalism Forces Us to Commodify Our Personal Lives

Don’t Call Rowing Blazers Founder Jack Carlson Preppy

Trending posts

My Love-Hate Relationship with Email

Have You Thought About Your Neighbors Today?

How Capitalism Forces Us to Commodify Our Personal Lives

Don’t Call Rowing Blazers Founder Jack Carlson Preppy

My Love-Hate Relationship with Email

Have You Thought About Your Neighbors Today?

How Capitalism Forces Us to Commodify Our Personal Lives

Don’t Call Rowing Blazers Founder Jack Carlson Preppy

Discovering My Sexuality, Alone in My Childhood Bedroom

What’s Private Is Public: Drawing the Ethical Line as a Personal Essayist

Stop Expecting “Sad Indie Girls” to Be Sad All the Time

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