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my social feeds seemed to finish their years-long transformation from a neighborhood populated with friends to a glossy condo development of brands.
Anne Helen Petersen • Culture Study | Anne Helen Petersen | Substack
It’s the flattening of life into
Anne Helen Petersen • Can't Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation
Criticism, to me, is ultimately a practice of paying attention.
Anne Helen Petersen • "Taste Hierarchies Like These Stink"

Our lives don’t have to become others’ cheap food for consumption.
Anne Helen Petersen • Culture Study | Anne Helen Petersen | Substack
protective routines
Anne Helen Petersen • The Glorious Return of ADVICE TIME
But what if…we don’t ever go back?:
Anne Helen Petersen • I Don't Feel Like Buying Stuff Anymore
But an infrastructure of care is also about imagining — and enacting — more robust and informal communities of care.
Anne Helen Petersen • Forced to Care
But so much of that amenability—that need to please, that lack of acting out—stemmed from a posture of fear.