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Holding Space for the Third Space: The Demise of Social Spontaneity
When I hear older generations (my parents, friends’ parents and parents’ friends) tell stories of their twenties in New York, they reminisce over the dive bar they frequented on Tuesdays, the random parties where Mick Jagger showed up, the blind dates that turned into marriages. It all feels vaguely romantic and inexplicably out of reach, […]
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December 1st
Walking home against a gust that cut to the bone, I wore a puffer zipped to my eyes with one of those tented hoods that block all peripheral senses, my hat and scarf tucked underneath. I gazed longingly into windows of warm homes like an orphan child wandering the streets alone on a cold winter’s […]
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Is Reading Performative Now?
On the corner of Bleeker and Barrow, a slender twenty-something with glossy waves and gazelle legs glided down the sidewalk. She wore a mini skirt, ballet flats, ivory babydoll blouse, and a patent leather yellow Prada shoulder bag. As I watched to clock her outfit, she made her way toward the intersection, stopped at the […]
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I Survived Cold Spring, NY: Drop your PSLs and Listen to This PSA
It was the first rain-free weekend last fall and my boyfriend Parker’s first time visiting my new home in Manhattan, where I’d recently moved. “I’m dying to leave the city,” I told him. We brainstormed a day trip upstate where we could drink apple cider, go pumpkin picking, touch grass. Thanks to an Instagram reel, […]
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