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A Deep Dive Into Gen-Z Disability Humor
This past March, after years of agonizing, unexplainable pain, I was finally diagnosed with inflammatory arthritis—an autoimmune disease in which the body misreads healthy cells as foreign bacteria and attacks…
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How TikTok Makes Fast Fashion Faster
Early this spring, fueled by the riches of a recent paycheck and the exhilaration (fear) of finals week, I purchased the dress. No, I’m not talking about that dress, although…
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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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Is Reclaiming Bimboism the Ultimate Feminist Statement?
“Welcome to Glitter Island—home of the girls, gays, theys, and non-binary babies,” narrates TikTok user @chrissychlapecka as she lounges on an inflatable flamingo in a hot pink bikini, satin platform…
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Is There Room for Riot Grrrl in a Modern World?
I hold “Deceptacon” by Le Tigre very close to my heart. When I was 15, it was exactly the kind of song I needed to hear: it was loud, brutally…
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Getting Cancelled? Take a Page Out of @Glamdemon2004’s Book
Serena Shahidi, also known as @Glamdemon2004, has become one of the most recent victims of TikTok teens’ fervent cancellation of influencers. She’s since deleted the culprit TikTok, in which she…
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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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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.…
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