HeyJaredLalitha’s Substack
A project started to memorialize my grandmother, but also to reconnect with myself in a very public way.
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Why I (Still) Wear a Mask in 2026 (opens the original)
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I don’t care about the Boston Globe article. I don’t care whether or not it’s a psyop. I don’t care whether or not the discourse is worth it. I don’t even really care if you think being covid-conscious is on the same laughable scale as going to clown school (said with love for the clown girls, because honestly…real). I look hot in a mask.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!LRqC!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-
I wrote Pretty Little Liars Fanfiction (opens the original)
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I’m doing my annual rewatch of this stupid show, and I had a thought: it would’ve been genuinely creepier if Ezra Fitz did groom and murder Alison, and then knowingly groom and date Aria. I was like, what if he did things like separate her from her friends, isolate her from her family, take advantage of her? I got to thinking, and then these two short stories happened. Now I am hoisting them onto you, my trusty Substack readers. Enjoy! <a class="image-link image2" href="https://substackcdn.com/i
The Corn Chronicles: Surviving #MeToo Activism at the Ohio State University (opens the original)
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For the purposes of this article, all crimes are alleged and all opinions are my own.In part I, we explored my trigger experience with sexual assault, when my high school boyfriend sexually assaulted me. I went to high school from 2012-2016 in Dublin, Ohio. This was very much a time in which things like sexual assault and mental health conversations were just beginning to be de-stigmatized. These years also laid the groundwork for something that was murmuring just under the surface, vibrational
The Corn Chronicles: my story surviving sexual assault (opens the original)
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For the intents of this article, all is my own opinion and my personal experiences. and all crimes are alleged.Every September rolls around and I feel what I felt then in my bones like the ghosts are never ending this haunting of my body.I tell people this part of my story matter-of-factly these days — “I was sexually assaulted when I was fifteen years old, on campus grounds, in high school by a boy that I thought I loved.” It has become as simple and as integral in my identity as sharing that I
I Took a Nap at Daisy Chain Fields (opens the original)
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