Why does every article start with “Fads have always been cyclical, but in today’s era of accelerated microtrends—thanks in no small part to our ever-increasing metabolism for visual culture—“
So excited to share Look Alive, a new pamphlet series from Citizen Editions. The project pairs original writing and images, and is packaged as a single-sheet document that folds out into a full-size poster. Link to purchase pamphlet here!
Wrote about how we're rationalizing indulgent fitness content in quarantine for
@_reallifemag
— thank you to
@robhorning
for the killer and patient edits!
Episode 03: Emily Ratajkowski is live! I talk about her body, her book called “My Body,” her hot-girls-for-Bernie Instagram presence, and the gluttonous impulse to control how other people see you. 🪞🍑🤰⌛️
Episode 04: Jia Tolentino! I talk about her expertly crafted “relatable” persona, why arrogance > feigned humility, and why I never want to see another Baby’s All Right location tag for the rest of my life. ✨🫠✨
Less depressing than the b&w selfie challenge is the fact that we’ve erroneously conflated vanity with narcissism to the point that we need a guise of “activism” to occasion beautiful images. People are... very stupid
🪩🌈 Episode 29: Taylor Swift w/ Sally Darr Griffin🧣🐍
@sallydarr
takes us there: Taylor’s slow creep toward total world domination, the Dream/Threat of the Girls’ Girl, her uncanny visual identity, the Swiftie microeconomy, Easter Egg hunts, and more…
Episode 07: Sally Rooney! Today we’re joined by dreamgirl
@mikidery
to talk high brow/low brow, how to make malaise stylish, the power of bookish girls, and how SR invoked Catholicism before all y’all 👗📝🍀📚☔️
🍸🎀 Episode 37: Rachel Sennott 🪩👅
This week we explore the legacy of
@treaclychild
(RIP) as she’s ascended — why ironic self-debasement felt so electric in 2019, the “Our Girl Made It” feeling, and what we lost as her persona drifted into caricature
Episode 12: Lena Dunham 🤩😍🫡
👉🏻 Why calling Girls “narcissistic” is boring and wrong, Lena’s compulsive self-exposure and endless body curiosity, and her acute understanding of how people work. I love you
@lenadunham
!!!
STARGIRL Episode 05: Alison Roman! 🍋🥫🌿🐟💄🌭 This week, bonafide AR scholar
@cal_hitchcock
talks about food media mania, the evolution of the Domestic Goddess, Brooklyn “found family” vibes circa 2018, & the New York fantasy of abundance in small spaces
Gtfo if u think high heels are the patriarchy... I’m 5 feet tall I need them to make eye contact w my (physical and intellectual) superiors (5’4” women)
🍸👠 Episode 22: Carrie Bradshaw with Callie Hitchcock 🍎🏙️
SATC superfan
@cal_hitchcock
discusses Carrie’s evolution from seedy partygirl to prudish romantic, the blurring of Candace Bushnell/Carrie/SJP, and “C.B.” as an emblem of New York.
🎙️💄Episode 18: Lana Del Rey 🏜️🇺🇸
This week we join the noise to talk all things LDR: patriotism / glamour / nostalgia / melancholy / self-destruction / Los Angeles / boys / the open road. Part I of infinity!
STARGIRL turns 2 this month! 🌟🎂🎈 As a bday gift from me to you, I’ve unlocked my most recent The Body Series episode with
@tao_lin
— I decided it was so important that everyone needs to hear it. Tune in to get a taste of what we’re up to on Patreon 😊✨
💕👸🏻 Episode 28: Jennie Kim with Alexi Alario 🎤✨
K-pop expert and fanatic
@_4L3X1
schools us on BLACKPINK’s Jennie: her drive for Western relevance, perfect sexy-cute neotenous face, and why the “lazy Jennie” narrative makes her even more stannable🫰🏻
⭐️ Welcome back to STARGIRL! ⭐️
Episode 19: Caroline Calloway — on CC’s unwavering belief in her own destiny, villain/victim narratives, and how we never got to witness the magnetic, popular-girl character we were told to fear.
🌺🧚🏻♂️💊📘🦋🐍🦪🥂✨
"The time that we live in now is so anticipatory...Everybody’s focused on asking, when’s the worst going to happen, when is the world going to end? So I was interested in trying to anticipate the reader."
Our new interview with
@laurenoyler
is live:
🦋💊 Episode 23: Caroline Calloway II with Caroline Calloway 🧚🏻♂️🌺
@carolinecaloway
herself talks self-publishing, the oversimplification of her “revenge” tale, and being a lifelong loner. Plus, CC runs herself thru the STARGIRL paradigms and gets an A+!