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The Cost of Streaming

I’m not making the case that not streaming music is easy. For a while the concept of streaming, of constant, readily available content, existed as a sort of phantom limb to me. No, avoiding these platforms and services isn’t convenient, but inconveniencing yourself is the point. Supporting artists, making conscious decisions about where your money is going, these are all elements of being an active participant in your community. Read More

Sydney Brewer

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Fascist-core: Pinterest, The "Vibe Shift", and Late-Stage Capitalism

If you’ve been on Pinterest or TikTok recently, you may have noticed the proliferation of niche micro-aesthetics, often cataloged in the form of collages, compilation videos, or “guide to ____-core” masterdocs. These, unlike larger fashion trends that might last several years before fading into obscurity again, flit in and out of existence in the blink of an eye. Behind this urge to label and behind the endless churn of micro-cores is a consumer culture driven by ego-identifi

Orion Smith Anderson

Performing “The Performance:” Ava Wilson’s NYFW Debut

Ava Wilson is a couture-leaning fashion designer based in Brooklyn, NY. She works primarily within the themes of Black sexuality and Black femininity—how these facets of Black identity have been diluted through time, and how they may be recontextualized in a way that empowers the stories of the past, while nodding towards the future of Black femininity. Her collection “The Performance” uses mesh, beading, and boning to accentuate and extend the shape of the body, in order to

Ella Ferrero

I am Being Suffocated by the Media Bubble and So are You

October 27, 2025 Newsletter Collage by Jasmine Nguyen A few mornings ago I was getting ready, and I was thinking about the Prattler. Specifically, I was thinking about the newsletter and how much more time can pass before it becomes apparent that, behind my not writing it, I am hiding two ugly truths: a complete lack of inspiration and an utter absence of creative impulse. It gets dark by 6pm, almost nothing feels intellectually stimulating, and as I’m writing this the New Yo

Ksenija Carleton

Let Them Eat Cake

October 20, 2025 Newsletter Collage by Jasmine Nguyen with "let them eat cake" by Kamile Lukrecija Lukosiute (2024) We don’t know if Marie Antionette actually said it, but Jean-Jacques Rousseau did! “Let them eat cake” is the phrase of the moment—a rich person’s poor interpretation of the plight of the lower class. Just like Kim Kardashian not knowing the price of a gallon of milk, Antionette did not understand the nuance of a poor person’s position, and that poor people cann

Ella Ferrero

The Biblical Diet, Clean Eating, and its Fascistic Appeal

October 13, 2025 Newsletter A lot of girls on TikTok have fallen into fascination with “Biblical fruit,” a subsect of the wider Catholic aesthetic revival happening amongst our generation. Biblical fruit refers to pomegranates, dates, figs, and other rich and messy fruits that Jesus might have eaten. I know we all know about the “pomegranate girl” who is obsessed with pomegranates and that seems to constitute a personality trait. I think those girls are allowed to have fun wi

Ella Ferrero