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Girlhood

Marti Trgovich — Mon, 15 Apr 2024 11:54:14 +0000

If there’s ever been a time to dissect the experience of being a girl, it’s now: there’s girl math and girl dinner, “I’m literally just a girl” is a viral meme, pink bow emojis are rampant, you can dress like a ballerina and no one bats an eye, and No Doubt’s ’90s anthem “Just a […]

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The Art of the Photo Dump

Lindsey Staub — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 11:30:00 +0000

Culture is a pendulum swinging back and forth between tail ends of a spectrum. If the previous decade saw conservative politics, liberalism is on the forefront; if the starlets of yesteryear were curvy, today’s will be skinny; if your closet is stocked with skinny jeans, be prepared for the takeover of the straight leg. Culture […]

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The Fear and The Irony

Joe Kendall — Mon, 03 Oct 2022 11:01:00 +0000

Teenagers can be the cruelest of any age group: keen to apply their maturing intellects to matters of ridicule, yet with a sense of identity so fragile that insecurity dictates their thoughts. The result is a uniquely hostile interpersonal environment where any opportunity for mockery is relished with a nascent hunger; simultaneously, such cruelty is […]

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Changing Seasons

Rachel Coppe — Thu, 23 Jun 2022 21:00:00 +0000

So, it goes like this: every April, for the past 3 years, I have spent in the aftermath of some kind of breakup. Now I’m sure I would be able to recognize this fact, and have it not bothered me if I met any definition of what it means to be a “chill girl.” However, […]

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Asking What’s Real and What’s Not

Marek Makowski — Mon, 28 Feb 2022 15:48:24 +0000

When I discovered her work, I was searching for a different Madeleine Gross. The days of lockdown wearied me; I lay in bed, at night or during the afternoon or morning (time was unbroken and the same), swiping to find how others had changed. I sought one of my many now-anonymous former coworkers from a […]

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An Unlikely Community

Bethany Nuckolls — Thu, 20 Jan 2022 12:30:00 +0000

Anything goes in Times Square. Drummers flay empty buckets and paint cans, smokers pass marijuana joints to random passersby, a shrieking frenzy of religious zealots lie on the pavement dressed in literal sackcloth and ashes . . . and in the midst of this, an assortment of stuffed animal toys convulse in a chorus of […]

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On a Screen, Darkly

Andrea Bianchi — Thu, 21 Jan 2021 12:30:33 +0000

In the first surreal stretch of the pandemic, when the whole world paused like one of the static squares of Instagram, I could see the man I loved only through the internet, where his face grinned up brightly beside the smug smile of his ex. She had left him in those last weeks of normalcy, when risking the unfamiliar to venture from the safe shelter of a relationship, of home, had still seemed an inconsequential decision. As his decision must have also seemed, more […]

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Venmo Stalking My Ex

Jackie Kenny — Thu, 08 Oct 2020 11:30:58 +0000

I’m not a social media person. I get addicted to fantasies of my own concoction too easily and so I’ve tried my best to avoid TikTok. I’ve never had Instagram. Or Twitter. I barely touch Facebook and when I do, all I see are political ads and my great aunt’s xenophobic posts. But, I do have Venmo. This story starts […]

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Getting the Picture

John Garry — Thu, 14 Nov 2019 12:30:08 +0000

If I had a dime for every picture I’ve seen of a tourist with a toothy grin standing on the shores of Lake Louise I’d be a millionaire. Lake Louise, an opaque turquoise pool nestled between Fairview Mountain and the Beehive Hems in Banff National Park, is often referred to as the most photographed location in Canada. #LakeLouise currently […]

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Reviving the Dinner Party

Laura Leavitt — Mon, 19 Nov 2018 13:17:12 +0000

There is a lot more that goes into a dinner invitation in my home than comes out in a casual, “you should come over for dinner!” Many see dinner at a friend’s house as no big deal, but the political history behind historical and even modern dinner parties cuts to the core of what it […]

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