Or, on interdisciplinary thinking. I'm writing from my kitchen table, which has historically been one of my favorite places to write. There's cello music in the background, and I'm about to hit my 3 pm slump. When I was younger, even in some of my early popular writing, I think I lobbed around critiques of industrialization without really understanding what industrialization is. Now that I've gotten older, I can sort of look back and laugh at myself and understand that "the d

Weird Girls have Weird Hobbies For one of my forty books of 2025, I read Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman. It was a bit heady and dense at some points, but full of interesting studies around the human brain and cognition. Toward the end, he explores something called a U-index that was a measure of unhappiness in people. film fun mag, unknown artist, via art institute of chicago In that section, he made a distinction between passive and active participation in someth

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Last night, I, Hailo went to the opening evening of “The Way I see It” selections from KAWS's private collection: I wore a new Armani...

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We’re walking the streets of the Lower East Side trying to find willing participants to entertain us in our game.

Writing this on two hours of sleep, a biscoff cookie, and an 8 pm cup of coffee, but I know you all love an arbitrary seasonal set of...

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Do me a favor. Next time you’re out running errands, existing in a liminal space, or in the coffee line, look around. Look with...

Last night, I was a plus one to the most fascinating event. These things are more fun as a plus one. Just ask my friend, Griffin, who was...

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“New York is a small town,” my Uncle Lenny was constantly telling me growing up. New York is, obviously, the most populous city in the...

by Vic Early Saturday afternoon my mom drove me to Penn Station on her way to run some errands. We went through Times Square and laughed...

One of my final projects for a course this semester was to throw a party for queers.