HeyJaredThe Corners with Olivia Petter
A place to talk about the things we often leave to linger in the corners of our minds with the occasional sprinkling of pop culture, fashion, books, and social commentary.
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Rape culture doesn’t exist in a vacuum (opens the original)
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When I was at school, rape wasn’t a word we knew much about, let alone used. It was synonymous with monsters: Disney villains who attacked vulnerable girls in dark alleyways in the middle of the night. So far removed from our own reality was this unfamiliar concept that, when it happened to us, we couldn’t recognise it. And it did happen. A lot.I actually didn’t want to write about the Cornell case at first. It was too horrifying. Too upsetting. And to be honest, too triggering. But yesterday, a
London Fashion Week: An Honest Diary (opens the original)
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There is no running water in my flat. It’s London Fashion Week, the time of year when my diary becomes filled with parties, events, and of course, fashion shows. For around five days straight, I will be surrounded by photographers, editors, stylists, writers, and ambiguous Instagram people, all looking, snapping, and judging. And I can’t flush my own loo. Fabulous.I’ve been coming to LFW for around a decade. Not because I’m one of those important people who gets paid to sit in the front row, but
How Medusa became a monster (opens the original)
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Say the name “Medusa” to anyone, and they’ll conjure a variation of the same image: an angry woman with snakes in her hair. Actually, her hair is snakes – a line that comes up early on in the Disney+ series, Furious, which I will come back to in a second. But to snakes: we know the name, we know the hissing hair, and we know if you look a little too long, you turn to stone. Few of us talk about how Medusa actually became a monster.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substa
The play that everyone keeps walking out on (opens the original)
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Before Tuesday, I’d never been to a play where people walked out before the end. The first person left after 10 minutes, and I assumed it was some sort of medical emergency. Then, as if permission had suddenly been granted, another two started shuffling out of their seats. Five minutes later, another one was off. At times, I wanted to leave, too. But Will Sharpe was sitting behind me, and I didn’t want to look like a wuss in front of Will Sharpe. So I stayed.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewab
Just a few small nips (opens the original)
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Last Friday, I woke up with snakes in my brain. I’d (stupidly) gone on Instagram right before getting into bed the night before and seen something Bad. I won’t go into what the Bad thing was because it will elicit some unwanted attention, but I will tell you that it kept me up all night, thinking about how Bad the thing was making me feel and how long I would feel Bad for.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!XQ2r!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progre
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