Generous hearts get trashed
On revolutions, personal and political ones.
TheContraryMary
For people who crossed a line — class, country, expectation — and found the other side lonelier than anyone warned them. Essays on what it actually takes to build a life on your own terms.
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Diary #1: I forced myself to like a normie
A series of personal letters to my paying readers
A shame created filth
My experience as the daughter of cleaning lady.
Beauty is a weapon against yourself
Can you call a "privilege" something that can be fashioned against you?
Book bliss #9: January picks
3 excellent book picks
Cosplaying in each other's lives
Some perhaps dark thoughts that light me up.
Beautiful enough to be happy
Two women reflecting on beauty and its power
Objects: a tub of cream, for Eczema
As far as I can remember, there’s never been a time when I did not dream of becoming mysterious.
The Epsteins of our lives
Are they beauty standards or it is just a pedophiles' taste?
Our teenage room
Every year, without fail, I tell myself, I am not going back home for Christmas.