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    essays,  film

    New Essay Series: My Favorite F***ing Movie

    / January 30, 2025

    I’m very excited to announce a new essay series I’ll be releasing monthly all year long: My Favorite F***ing Movie is a personal exploration of sex through film, and Go (1999) is the…

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    Against the Discourse

    / June 20, 2024

    The world, and the internet, is in flux. While Twitter was once a subversive stronghold for opinions that are not often enough given the credence or the attention they deserve – minority opinions,…

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  • essays,  health

    The Origin of Pain

    / April 15, 2024

    Part I How to begin. That’s always the question with chronic health problems. Do I begin fifteen, twenty years ago? I could. Or I could start ten years ago, when my more recent…

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  • Rewriting the Whorearchy with Stephanie Parent.
    essays,  Guest Post

    Guest Post: Rewriting the Whorearchy with Stephanie Parent

    / February 13, 2024

    I’m thrilled to present a guest post from my friend Stephanie Parent – a fantastic writer, poet, and author of the novel THE BRIARS (which I cannot recommend enough). Today, she’s discussing the…

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  • Polaroid photo of the author, surrounded by glittery stickers.
    essays

    On Britney’s Instagram, Selfies & the Mercurial Need to Be Perceived

    / November 6, 2023

    I spend a fair amount of time defending women’s selfies in my head. Whenever I see comments on Instagram photos accusing women of “just wanting attention” or being “attention whores” because of the…

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  • Purple and pink flowers on vines.
    essays,  Personal

    Songs Are Spells, or, You Make Me Want You

    / September 26, 2023

    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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  • Tosh from Urban Legend.
    essays,  film

    On Girls and Goths in the Early Aughts

    / June 16, 2023

    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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  • essays,  Personal

    A Feminine Manifesto

    / July 2, 2022

    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…

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