Delusional Girl Profile: An Interview with Harmony Tividad
We caught up with fantasy pop songstress Harmony Tividad, formerly half of indie rock band Girlpool, to discuss her signature perfume notes and personal philosophies on songwriting.
The Oh de Laval Effect
Ricocheting to Instagram fame in the late 2010s, Oh de Laval has continuously impressed with her glowing aesthetics and uncompromised storytelling. In this article, we break down her creative journey, and how she represents the disruptive yet adorable characters within her work.
On Tabis
Division that revels in divisiveness.
Priscilla & Me: The Sweet Sadness of Codependency
“Isolated from the age of fourteen outside of contact with arguably the most famous musician living at the time, splitting her time between trying to graduate Catholic school and taking pills and trips to Vegas; Priscilla lived a life essentially incomprehensible to the average person. Yet, under Sofia Coppola’s beautifully understated direction, the madness unfolds into making perfect sense. The circumstances were unimaginable. But I’ve been her. The devotion is universal.
The boy I would’ve died over was by most accounts, an idiot.”
Post-Modern Sleaze: Chapter 2
Post-Modern Sleaze: A guide to romanticizing romancing your coping mechanisms. - Olive, a disillusioned model, experiences the mundanities of life running parallel to an imagined academic flirtation with critically acclaimed novelist, David Foster Wallace. 2/2
Post-Modern Sleaze: Chapter 1
Post-Modern Sleaze: A guide to romanticizing romancing your coping mechanisms. - Olive, a disillusioned model, experiences the mundanities of life running parallel to an imagined academic flirtation with critically acclaimed novelist, David Foster Wallace. 1/2
Clean Girls Get Dirty with Djerf Avenue
“The clean girls are cannibalizing each other.” Djerf Avenue’s battle with dupe culture.
Desire & Suffering with Marina Abramović
“The artist filmed herself playing the Russian knife game: every time she cut herself, she chose a new knife and recorded the operation from the beginning. Repetition and replication, history and memory, were all themes that were explored with immediate violence.” Celebrating and examining the life of controversial conceptual artist, Marina Abramović.
Once Upon a Time in Halloween
The evolution of the Halloween costume.
Halloween is satanic. (Just not for the reasons you think.)
“Girls will look for Betty to their Veronica, the Cassie to their Maddy. It’s all about Black Swan and Mulholland Drive…” “….Men might not know it, but on Halloween they are all dressed as Archie. And while many women have participated in this kind of dynamic outside of Halloween, those who usually would not feel drawn into this realm of subtle manipulation, are more ready and willing.”
Hocus Pocus: A World of Nostalgia in a Season of Change
Revisiting the Halloween classic that filled our formative years with whimsy and a healthy fear of galivanting through cemeteries at night.
Lolita’s Plight
An examination of the “Lolita Effect”, online subcultures enraptured within it, and the detrimental effects of the male gaze in popular media.
“Can nothing be painful in a woman's tragedy? Does self-harm have to come with pretty filters? Why does the water we drown in have to be filled with lilies like a fancy bath and not just be the water someone drowned in? Why does everything about a girl have to be soft and lovely? I am surprised [that the media has not] tried to turn our blood pink to look prettier when it spills.”
What kind of final girl are you? (Quiz)
Take the quiz and find out which blood-splattered horror movie icon you’re most like…
Fawns Forever
A foray into coquette visual theory: “..And just as camo lingers, so do fawns, for who wouldn’t want to be prey-faced, doe-eyed, spindly-legged, hunted by guys who bought their Realtree pants on Grailed? It’s natural.”
30 Years of The Virgin Suicides
The Virgin Suicides is a tale shrouded in mystery, a greek tragedy for the modern adolescent girl. It is a story shaded by loss, it’s written in the detritus of fruit flies which are scattered across the landscape, a jaded suburbia, haunted by the ghosts of mid-century conflict, anguished by the pressures of failing industry. The Lisbon sisters emerge as a product of their environment, at an impasse along the path from girls to women.
Bisous for Sophie Calle
“…Calle is a writer, photographer, and conceptual artist. Her practice explores human identity and intimacy, with voyeurism serving as a compulsory skill alongside her artistic and literary talents. Her penchant for surveillance was first activated by following strangers around her hometown of Paris.”
Bottoms (2023) and the Intersection of Camp and Sincerity
What ever happened to the age old truth: girls just want to have fun? Emma Seligman answers this question resoundingly with her sophomore directorial effort Bottoms, a comedy about a pair of lesbian high schoolers who start a fight club in an attempt to hook up with their longtime crushes before graduation.
Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, the Minimalist Queen of Camelot
“Picture this: New York City, 1996. It is announced that one of the city’s most eligible bachelors, John F. Kennedy Jr., is getting married to his stunning, relatively-unknown, Calvin-Klein-publicist girlfriend Carolyn Bessette after two years of dating. Your heart is broken, and you are devastated until you take a good look at her; suddenly, she is on your Top 5 People-to-Rob List.”
The Black Sheep of Fashion Week: An Interview with Olivia Ballard
No, she has no wool for summer - mesh is much hotter. For a slow fashion designer, the maker underneath this thunderous label has been lightning-quick to establish herself on the scene. When I meet Olivia Ballard, who graciously agreed to speak with me, the 27-year-old has recently unearthed her second collection of the year at Berlin Fashion Week.
Pop. Life. Suicide: A Review of New Millennium Boyz by Alex Kazemi
“This novel is a potent reminder of the truth that human beings, some more than others, have the capacity for exceptional cruelty… Exceptionality, greatness even, is an undeniable part of the American dream, therefore it follows that to be exceptionally vile is to be fully American…” Read our full review of Alex Kazemi’s debut novel, New Millennium Boyz.