Adaptive Daydream
Reclaiming domestic life from the clutches of the culture war and exploring the unlikely love story between fantasy and reality.
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No One is Making Me Do This (opens the original)
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Some Housekeeping (opens the original)
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I’ve spent years sharing my writing and educational work for free. I paused all Substack payments over nine months ago, even though it was my dream, because retracting Wallflower at a Sex Party was very painful for me. Additionally, years of depending on social media to survive had deeply damaged my relationship to my own creative practice and process. I was addicted to the the platforms (all better now, that was a THING), attacked by people in my real life over my writing, approached by strange
No One is Making Me Do This (opens the original)
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Part 4: Hate WatchingThe most horrifying thing about the tradwife that she is an influencer. And an influencer is not the same thing as a role model, although they serve the same social function in a time and place where social media has become the commons, the pulpit, and the checkout aisle tabloid; tempting us with gossip or aspiration, depending upon the unwavering dependability of our social comparisons, coveted status symbols, or carefully cultivated sense of cynicism and superiority. An in
The Broom (opens the original)
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The Broom (opens the original)
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