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crying in the bathroom at infatuation station
Behold an excerpt of multi-hyphenate written, visual, and comedic artist River L. Ramirez’s essay “27 Playlists." “This is a story of a love affair that…
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big girls want to be little, and little girls want to be big
Big girls want to be little, and little girls want to be big. No one is at peace in the state of femininity they currently possess. We spin endlessly on…
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Steffi
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singing in Simlish
Deputy games editor at Inverse Shannon Liao explores what really goes into the creation of video game languages like Simlish, Hylian, and Animalese.
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who have i really been wearing dresses for?
In today’s strong feelings, we’re publishing our first comic from Taiwanese-American illustrator, animator, and comic artist Claud Li.
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it's high time we DTF (define the friendship)
In today’s strong feelings, Berlin-based writer and editor Michelle No makes the case for getting as much clarity on the parameters of your friendships…
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celebrity memoirs create the perfect "redemption arc"
and despite knowing they're manufactured, I love them
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scientifically speaking, spoilers don't matter
We belong to a culture of live-sharing screenshots, lines of dialogue, and memes. Spoilers are in our faces more intensely than spammy pop-up ads in the…
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Aamina Inayat Khan
“chaser” and “nft” mean something else in the sonny angel universe
Sonny Angel collector Adi Miller answers all our questions about the highs and lows of collecting, healing your inner child through dolls, and more.
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why do we still care about being pretty when we cry?
In the closing stanzas of “All-American Bitch”, the intro track off Olivia Rodrigo’s sophomore album GUTS, she layers descriptions of what it means to…
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Brendon Holder
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doll collecting is hotter than ever, but is the stigma really gone?
I was at a restaurant and overheard the table next to me gushing about Sonny Angels: small, collectible toys of little boys who wear quirky hats. This…
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the bella swan hair tuck is a coded language
TikTok’s chokehold on culture remains —from fashion to music to, more subtly but enduringly, our physical language. These movements that started as an…
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kate lindsay
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f*ck ghosting
my first boyfriend as a twenty-something ghosted me shortly after telling me he wanted me to be his girlfriend on his birthday. I tried to get an…
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