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The Creator Economy is the Asylum We're Being Raised In

Engaged communities like the Swifties are data-rich ecosystems exploited by surveillance capitalists.

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Leave Me a Voicemail

These voicemails started out as a little experiment. I didn’t really think about the first one. I just felt like I wanted to leave you a message. I didn’t really have a long-term plan for them. But then, I don’t know…they became something vital. To me...

Outside of Totality

I keep a pair of eclipse glasses in a drawer next to my passport. To me, this is evidence that I have become an adult, but it might also be proof of something else.

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Is there a Right Kind of White?

Spoiler alert: The answer is no.

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We should take Katie Britt seriously

She's weaponizing the kitchen table because she understands its power. Which is more than I can say for many of the Democrats.

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Hungry Women

Life is not a folktale but I still wish some curses could be lifted.

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a pocket observatory abortion primer

I miscarried on a toilet, too! ARREST ME.

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By Design

White communists, socialists, feminists, and capitalists tried to engineer society through kitchen design.

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A Crowded Table

I own the table of my dreams because someone was desperate.

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The Ladder of Escalation is Defective

So killing thousands of children in Gaza is not an unprecedented escalation, but a drone attack - that was designed to fail - is? Seems broken.

Outside of Totality

I keep a pair of eclipse glasses in a drawer next to my passport. To me, this is evidence that I have become an adult, but it might also be proof of something else.