For one of my other classes, I made an infographic about nail polish. While researching, I found myself falling down a rabbit hole of a topic: what chemicals are even in cosmetics?
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the horror of childhood
Last week, I woke up from a nightmare about being a child again. Ever since then, I’ve been thinking a lot about how being a legal minor was terrifying and frightening.
Continue readingNon-gender and nonbinary
I’ve read somewhere before (and now somehow find it impossible to find a source) that identity is an advertisement for a product that doesn’t exist. I don’t think I’ve ever found a definition that rang as true for me as that did.
In my last post, I wrote about disconnecting from my body through the internet. An aspect of that that I wanted to give its own space is the disconnect I was having with gender.
Continue readingThe internet, identity, and the body
There are so many selves we create in order to live our lives easily: as a child, as a sibling, as a student, as a friend, as an employee… When I was younger, I struggled with understanding who I am and what it meant to be me. Teenhood was complicated, as I know it is for almost everyone, but for me this was compounded by my introduction to the internet.
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Unruly Bodies 