Girlboss dies in silence
In a world where femininity is a project and marriage is an investment, Amy in Gone Girl shows that winning the game of neoliberal narrative often means the quiet death of the girlboss.
God help us lose our minds
I write about the structures we inhabit, the pressures we naturalize, and the quiet violences that shape contemporary life. A sociological reading of the everyday — from within late capitalism’s fractures.
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