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All Alone in Their White Girl Pain
In college, I had an African American professor who slept with his students or took them on dates in the hope of sleeping with them.
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Bye
I’m dipping after I publish one last newsletter.
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Codependency No More
(Image: Grey Gardens)
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Girls
The first two Ethiopian girls I ever knew—both students at the elementary school I attended from grades 1 to 3—were, on a surface level at least, my…
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On Cardigans
(Photo: Zoë Kravitz as Big Little Lies’ Bonnie Carlson doing her finest cardigan acting.)
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THIS IS THE STORY OF A CRAZY GIRL
My Year of @Bestdressed and Aestheticization
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GOODBYE HIPTOWASTE, HELLO PRINCESS BABYGIRL
Dear readers,
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.,¤°✿princess babygirl
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Pure Love
Three summers ago, I lost my cousins Yahya and Aydruce less than a month apart.
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A Critical Inquiry into Fake Accents
My voice is a tad boyish, though I do try to inject girliness and coquettishness into it at times.
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The Rarest Aesthetic: On Ella Emhoff's Countersignalling, Hot Girl Maximalism and Alterna-Gurls
Alterna-Gurls
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Discussion Thread: ONLY VIBES, NO DISCOURSE
Please leave a really dumb comment.
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In Case You Missed It
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