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creative women are becoming increasingly dangerous to men who have historically gotten away with being shitty
on Lily Allen, David Harbour, and "Vogue World" as the perfect distraction for Hollywood's blatant muzzling of women's voices and our stories.
Oct 29
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choosing the ache for more over the acceptance of less
on love, limerence and no longer martyring oneself on the altar of convention
Oct 23
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Rebecca Woolf
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Mindy Walder
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"an insecure man will punish you for loving him"
on Nicole Kidman, the infantilization of boyfriends and marrying men who will grow to hate you for being out of their league
Oct 8
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Rebecca Woolf
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the dichotomy of attraction
Demanding partner #1 relinquish their autonomy in order to coddle partner #2's insecurities is not “setting boundaries"
Sep 22
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Rebecca Woolf
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what is consent to a ghost
a critique (and vindication) on my own gaze and an invitation for you to center yours
Aug 25
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Rebecca Woolf
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our obsession with aesthetics has made us boring and unsocial. (death to the mood board! long live the house party!)
cultivating community requires a living room, an open door and a pile of dishes in the sink you'll get to later. (and several tangents before I get to…
Aug 19
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Rebecca Woolf
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first love is a haunted house
and this is a ghost story
Aug 7
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Rebecca Woolf
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Instead of Death Valley, Death Valley
on exchanging one kind of voraciousness for another
Jul 25
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Rebecca Woolf
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we have arrived with a thud in the Artificial Age
who and what is 'real' anymore and what happens when we can't tell the difference
Jul 6
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Rebecca Woolf
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Reading The Dry Season at the DMV
on expiration dates, celibacy, and turning 44
Jun 17
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Rebecca Woolf
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blood on our hands
body horror is every woman's genre. but our performative squeamishness, silence and shame is a self-inflicted wound.
Jun 4
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Rebecca Woolf
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small car blues
on giving back the keys and also holding on to one of them
May 13
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Rebecca Woolf
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