I Cannot Stop Talking About Brat Summer—Here’s Why Everyone Should Embrace It

One week everyone is embracing a brat summer, and the next they are approaching life in a ✨very mindful, very demure✨ way. Demure has done a Pilates class, ordered their green juice and gone to the Sunday morning market for their weekly groceries all before brat has even rolled out of bed. Brat is waking up at a random sharehouse in Fitzroy and dri... See more

As Charli explores the highs and lows of womanhood, what it means to be a so-called ‘brat’ is revealed - life is messy and complicated and as a result, we roll our eyes, complain over the most trivial things, cry too much or not enough, feel hotly insecure, question everything and hold on to madness until it explodes.

the brat is a living embodiment of feminism as imagined by Gen Z, as infantilizing as it is superficial