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Rookie, Revisted
Since curating this old-new collection of yearbooks, I’ve been thinking about where Rookie fits into 2024 teenage girlhood. Is there an equivalent to Rookie Mag that offers impartial advice and a platform for conversations between young girls?
Unlearning and Relearning: Reading and Writing, Again
In the past few years, I’ve been finding my way back to reading that excites and inspires me. Part of the process has been unlearning what I’ve been taught for so many years, and relearning ways that are more playful, open, and spontaneous. I don’t read only to “interpret” or “uncover,” but to simply experience.
There is no Freedom: Chain Gang All-Stars Review
In 359 pages, Adjei-Brenyah delivers soul-shattering violence and shines a light on the brutal love of spectacle that already exists in America today.
The Misrepresentation of Mental Illness: The Maidens by Alex Michaelides
While I think there is room for discourse surrounding mental illness and mental health in all genres, there is no reason for an awful trauma to be presented as the rationale for a murder mystery.
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