01 / Essays

Same Questions,New Perspectives

An evolving collection of essays about culture, identity, and ideas.
Questioning what we value, what we inherit, and what we’re still learning to do with it all.

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Wrong reasons, right outcomes
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Wrong reasons, right outcomes
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The things we carry forward from the people we left behind

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You did me dirty. Why tf do you get to live a good life?
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You did me dirty. Why tf do you get to live a good life?
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You don't get to win this round

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The art of longing and waiting for the things that haven't found you
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The art of longing and waiting for the things that haven't found you
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I yearn deeply, and I wait anyway

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What we talk about when we talk about girlhood
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What we talk about when we talk about girlhood
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A letter to the girl I almost left behind

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The weight to date
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The weight to date
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The invisible criteria we inherit on being seen and being chosen

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Be who you would've been otherwise
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Be who you would've been otherwise
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Without struggle there can still be progress

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Living in the contradictions of stability
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What do we do when the ordinary life we fought for is the life we fear?

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What has your perfection killed today?
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This is the part where we stfu and just make something

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Don't ask me on no damn coffee date
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Don't ask me on no damn coffee date
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A status report on the state of the dating pool and a lesson on swimming in it without drowning this time

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Why I'm done pretending to care about making sacrifices
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I think I'll just make better life choices instead

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Culture and Insights
Is community the newest side-hustle?
Culture and Insights
Is community the newest side-hustle?
Culture and Insights

A run club should never be $40

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Culture and Insights
If everybody gets to say it, nobody has to understand it
Culture and Insights
If everybody gets to say it, nobody has to understand it
Culture and Insights

A double click into the implications of online words getting offline meanings

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It's performative until it becomes a reality
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It's performative until it becomes a reality
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Let people get caught trying, damn 🙄

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Everybody wants a village. Nobody wants to be a villager.
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Everybody wants a village. Nobody wants to be a villager.
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Community doesn't just happen by accident.

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Culture and Insights
Marginal Thoughts
Have you not had enough?
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Have you not had enough?
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Marginal thoughts on being satisfied without being finished

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Marginal Thought
The perfect sentence is the ugly one
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The perfect sentence is the ugly one
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Marginal thoughts on giving your ideas the life they deserve

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The saxophones are getting louder
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The saxophones are getting louder
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On preemptive grief, the mask you wear while leaving, and the person you get to keep

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Thank God I didn't peak at 22
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Thank God I didn't peak at 22
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I promise you, you haven't hit the best times of your life yet.

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The best thing I never wanted
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The best thing I never wanted
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I thought I’d be someone else by now... I'm glad I'm not

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Why knowing isn't the same as doing
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Why knowing isn't the same as doing
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You don't have to live in a hypothetical life

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Marginal Thought
Marginal Thought
003: Learning to live in experiences, not memories
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The perils of keeping your head down and putting one foot in front of the other.

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Marginal Thought
Marginal Thought
002: Your work doesn’t need to be useful
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Art was never meant to save anyone but the artist

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001. A Read Between the Lines
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Five thoughts on creativity, dating, wanting more for others, jealousy, and donation bins

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Locking in and staying in
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Rethinking The Great Lock-In as a softer kind of discipline

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From reflections on modern womanhood and the development of selfhood to collective creativity and digital culture, Still Unlearning makes sense of the tension between who we are, who we’ve been taught to be, and everything we’re unlearning in the process.

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