The Rarest Aesthetic: On Ella Emhoff's Countersignalling, Hot Girl Maximalism and Alterna-Gurls

Alterna-Gurls

As the daughter of immigrants, I used to be over-eager to relate to popular culture, even if it meant moving at a velocity greater than my natural speed. I loved careening fast—harried by a culture of Spin the Bottle players and kids who ignored anti-smoking PSAs—to get to the metaphorical plane everyone else seemed like they were already o…