Felicia

it is a great injustice that the right has developed an ideological monopoly on discussions of so-called “cancel culture”, so much so that it feels vaguely right-wing to be discussing it in any capacity at all. we need to be having conversations about this dynamic as it relates to abolitionist academics being pushed out of office, journalists who g

Fleabag: “I want someone to tell me what to wear every morning. I want someone to tell me what to eat, what to like, what to hate, what to rage about, what to listen to, what band to like, what to buy tickets for, what to joke about, and what not to joke about. I want someone to tell me what to believe in, who to vote for, and love, and how to tell

there is just no better time to consume media and feel melancholy than in october. this is in part because music sounds best when you’re wearing a sweater and a skirt at the same time, and in part because nobody looks good smoking a cigarette in direct sunlight.

here are my rules: when it’s sunny, listen to folk and old country. when it’s cloudy, li

Poem

The spirit
likes to dress up like this:
ten fingers,
ten toes,

shoulders, and all the rest
at night
in the black branches,
in the morning

in the blue branches
of the world.
It could float, of course,
but would rather

plumb rough matter.
Airy and shapeless thing,
it needs
the metaphor of the body,

lime and appetite,
the oceanic fluids;
it needs the body’s world,
i

You don’t know anyone at the party, so you don’t want to go. You don’t like cottage cheese, so you haven’t eaten it in years. This is your choice, of course, but don’t kid yourself. It’s also the flinch. Personality is not set in stone. You may think a morning coffee is the most enjoyable thing in the world, but really it’s just a habit. 30 days wi

i wondered, for a while, how the men who dated her didn’t see a kid playing dress-up when they looked into her eyes. it was only recently that i realized that they did.

—Rayne Fisher-Quann, Nov 21, 2021

there is a sickeningly pervasive idea in our culture, by the way, that a young woman can only become interesting and complex by experiencing untold quantities of pain — and so we seek this suffering in an attempt to become artistic, but only end up learning that we were operating from a flawed premise in the first place. pain is nothing but pain

— R

and the letter of the law exists not to enforce what is moral or good — rather, it exists to provide men with a line to toe. it functions not to ensure that men don’t do heinous things, but to make sure they can get away with heinous things by learning the cheat codes: fuck her on the day of her eighteenth birthday, make sure she can sit up straigh