essays
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Revisiting CAM Five Years Later
I was just rewatching the brilliant film CAM (2018) yesterday – about a camgirl whose identity is stolen – and I was struck by how incredibly prescient the movie was when it first…
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Ode to the Slutty Halloween Costume
“In girl world, Halloween is the one night a year when a girl can dress like a total slut and no other girls can say anything about it.” That quote is uttered by…
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Songs Are Spells, or, You Make Me Want You
The other night, I fell into a deep, velvety-dark hole of nostalgia. It began with a few Christina Aguilera music videos (the Dirrty years), which led me to Avril Lavigne (and her most…
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On Girls and Goths in the Early Aughts
I think horror was always a part of my identity, lurking somewhere deep in my bones, long before I realized it. All things being relative, coming of age during the early aughts as…
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A Feminine Manifesto
It’s been four whole years since I published my first (and thus far, only) book. Four years that feel like a lifetime and a blink simultaneously. Four years that I look back on…
