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this article by @raynefq about the self being more consumable and how young women are susceptible to the tropes of a familiar identity as shown by 'complex female characters'
She didn’t know who she wanted to be in that moment—Early or her mother, beautiful or beholding—
Brit Bennett • The Vanishing Half: Shortlisted for the Women's Prize 2021
Clearly Dead Girls help us work out our complicated feelings about the privileged status of white women in our culture.
Alice Bolin • Dead Girls: Essays on Surviving an American Obsession
He couldn’t trap her because he refused to trap himself.
Brit Bennett • The Vanishing Half: Shortlisted for the Women's Prize 2021
This is truly a female monstrousness—the joy at being accepted where others of your kind are not.
Claire Dederer • Monsters
(In 1965, Norman Mailer, watching her at a party, observed, “She’s a perfect advertisement for herself.”)
Lili Anolik • Didion and Babitz
she “lives at a rate and intensity and with a reality that makes other lives seem pale, thin and shadowy.”