Digital Native
As an elder millennial whose writing career coincided with the dominance of digital pubs, I’ve left a trail of copy scattered across multiple defunct websites. “Digital Native” is a collection of the pieces — about girlhood, pop culture, feminism + softness — that I’ve salvaged over the years.
I Repeatedly Fought Tears While Jamming to ‘Beyoncé’
It’s feminism for women who don’t care to rhapsodize about whatever mainstream feminism’s issue of the day happens to be because they’ve got their own, separate issues. It’s the feminism of lived experience.
I Secretly Hated My “Addy” American Girl Doll
Putting Addy in an America where she was effectively denied the privilege of being a child made it impossible for her to embody all of the qualities for which early American Girls were known.