High school can be boring, it’s important to know how to make it fun. I’ve found one fun and easy thing to do is lie to people. I don’t do it for any pathological reasons, nor do I do it to make people feel better about themselves or to gossip. I just do it to … Continue reading »
Added to television, comics and books, there’s recently a new love that’s come into my life. And, surprising myself most of all, this love is hockey. Well, if we’re being technical, I actually fell in love with the Ottawa Senators. It was January 2012, and I was sitting on a couch with my boyfriend, Marc-André, … Continue reading »
Florida is a state where chads hang, Mickey Mouse lives, and people get their faces eaten off. East Coasters have a strange fascination with the sunshine state. Flights leave out of northern airports as frequently as the Shuttle trains in New York City, bringing the pasty and the overworked to the land of vitamin D. … Continue reading »
Art by Brie It doesn’t matter that I’m showing off my new Dollywood mug, that I’m standing next to the stars of The Room, or that I’m walking around the streets of Edinburgh like a Real Grown Up for the first time in my life. All that matters, according to Facebook, is that I am … Continue reading »
In the hemisphere of internet and performance artists, an article written by Alicia Eler and Kate Durbin about the “Teen Girl Tumblr-Aesthetic” has been circulating. This article uncovers, among other things, the important artistic artifacts being born on tumblr accounts authored by high school aged girls and/or young adult women. These ladies, said to be … Continue reading »
I always knew that I would be a curvy girl, even when I was eight years old. My double bed seemed massive then, like a boat in the center of my bedroom,and I’d sit in the middle, or more often stand, to see my whole body in the vanity mirror. There were turns where round … Continue reading »
In the second to last month of 2011 I took a bus from New York City to Providence for Thanksgiving. This bus was filled to capacity, but through my slick maneuvering, I manged to obtain the front seat so I could look at the road while we drove. It seemed no one was going to … Continue reading »
Art by Molly Last Wednesday I got a call from my boyfriend but didn’t pick up the phone. I was sitting with my niece watching Dora the Explorer and didn’t feel like answering. He called again. And again. I sent back a text, “i’m with the babyyy,” and the calls stopped. I found myself an … Continue reading »
Art by Kellie Everything I Needed To Know About Life, I Learned From Brewing Coffee and Checking Coats. I could really write a whole damn symphony about my bizarre employment history, but that’s not the point of today’s article. I am, admittedly, one to bleed a job dry with my existence and cut out with a fat … Continue reading »
Collage by Kaley I moved out of my apartment last week with understandable nostalgia for it: I learned about being alone there, how much I missed having a dishwasher, how quickly dishes collect, how I want to be cared for and how I want to care for myself, that getting loonies for the laundry machines … Continue reading »
