Aug 03, 2022
The Enduring Myth of the It Girl
The mystique behind icons like Kim Kardashian and Marilyn Monroe comes from the parts of American culture we prefer not to look at too closely.
The mystique behind icons like Kim Kardashian and Marilyn Monroe comes from the parts of American culture we prefer not to look at too closely.
Congratulations, they said, your order is on its way! Thank you, they said, and I was happy to be thanked.
When I walk to the train, my shadow falls wider, and I like that I’m taking up more space.
When I first meet a client, I usually remove whatever wig I happen to be wearing, and the tension settles.
There’s a part of me that is overwhelmed by the possibilities, by the fact that I finally look the way I used to only imagine I might.
Gramsie wasn’t being a snob. Or, she wasn’t just being a snob. She was trying to school me.
We fall prey to letting writing become a passion, cooking a hobby, teaching a service. We must rethink how we value labor.
And then there were the wigs: exercises in risk-taking, rejections of my boring and shame-consumed past self.
