There is a wall in front of you, one behind, one to your left, and one to your right. Above you a fifth wall, below you a sixth. Inside this container is everything that’s you—what drives you, what hurts you, what tempts you, just you.
Writers don’t want to be influencers. I assure you, as creatives, most writers have probably considered alternate paths—music, acting, painting, dancing, perhaps even influencing (however, I imagine this accounts for very few of us). For writers, though, none of these paths would have made sense because the whole point of being a writer is to […]
When I began my journey into web3, I remember thinking, wow, finally, a space that levels the playing field — a space filled with possibilities for women, POC and the socio-economically disadvantaged. In some ways, it felt like a blank slate. But, like any opportunity where capital is involved, bro culture and greed were already neck deep. […]
They start us young. The manufacturing stage. We are small. Impressionable. Ideal for conditioning. They give us Barbie dolls. Plastic babies. Makeshift kitchens. They dress us in pink sparkles and dainty little slippers. “How pretty,” they say. Then, the word teen. It comes so fast. We are ready for distribution. The attention is fierce. It […]
Every so often, a bold artistic endeavor emerges that is courageous enough to ask the question: “Do parents actually know what their kids are up to?” If you were a teenager growing up in the nineties, you probably remember one of these valiant gestures presented in the form of a film called Kids. Kids stirred […]
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