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swords jew. journalist. author of CULTURE WARLORDS. Host of @mobydickenergy. say hi talialavinwrites @ gmail dot com

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    Talia Lavin‏Verified account @chick_in_kiev Apr 29

    I wrote about feeling like I've failed some crucial test of Being A Woman, how it is to live despite that, & the summertime life of the Blob Girlhttps://www.businessinsider.com/get-ready-for-blob-girl-summer-2021-4 …

    8:49 AM - 29 Apr 2021
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      2. Talia Lavin‏Verified account @chick_in_kiev Apr 29

        just some molten-purple prose on femme insecurity for you on this thursday almost-afternoon https://www.businessinsider.com/get-ready-for-blob-girl-summer-2021-4 …pic.twitter.com/6ATUzxwPSC

        I know I am not alone, that there's a secret legion of grieving and unimproved femmes who have tried and failed to enter the halls of a kind of womanhood that is locked off to us. Somewhere there is a place, I imagine it to be not unlike the Temple of Dendur in the Met, where the Hot Girls sleep at night in their sarcophagi. I could get my ticket my life would change, and since I can't, I live an unchanged life. The last time I tried to sit on a stoop on a sunny day I sat in dog piss and I didn't even know, for hours. 

For years I have tried to enter the temple, but I haven't tried hard enough, and I have a big furrow in my brow and wrinkly hands.  So much of what Being A Woman is supposed to be is the ability to transfix and enchant, glances sticking to you like cobweb.
        I was built for gazes to pass over, an awning is more exciting than me, a hot dog cart is more exciting than me, the little creatures in the rainwater coming out of the gutter that you can't see with the naked eye are nonetheless more visually arresting than I am. Am I a woman still? I have tried to be. 

So many people have died this year, millions, and I have survived to take into my body a miraculous shot that is the very flower of medical science, a code written in my genome to lock out the great threat. And I, imbibing this, have the temerity to not even be sexy. If Vaxxed Girl Summer is meant to be a kind of pan-cultural Rumspringa I ought to be someone that transcends schlubhood under its thrilling aegis. And yet.
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      3. Talia Lavin‏Verified account @chick_in_kiev Apr 29

        "Having survived through a plague I want to live every inch of my survival, the world my oyster and I its irritant little pearl, the gem at the lip of the mantle. Instead I'm the oyster, all slime in the throat, eating grit."https://www.businessinsider.com/get-ready-for-blob-girl-summer-2021-4 …

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      4. Talia Lavin‏Verified account @chick_in_kiev Apr 29

        with many thanks to @edithhonan for shepherding this unplaceable piece into unlikely print!!

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      5. Talia Lavin‏Verified account @chick_in_kiev Apr 29

        some notes!! -the labor of performing femininity is immensely valuable and i respect it deeply!! -you can be totally sexy and not a Hot Girl ie skilled & practiced at said labor -if this doesnt resonate for you its a personal essay i was just workin out some feelings!

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      6. Talia Lavin‏Verified account @chick_in_kiev Apr 29

        also this was the illustration @timfitzphoto made for me its botticelli x munch lolpic.twitter.com/6D9jmmIFMU

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      1. TheGrayMattersReport‏ @graymattersrep Apr 29
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        tbh you are beautiful

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      2. sarah slothanova, esq‏ @slothanova Apr 29
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        I was gonna say something funny but I can’t because this is just fucking beautiful

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      3. Talia Lavin‏Verified account @chick_in_kiev Apr 29
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        ❤️

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      1. Alice Beverton-Palmer‏ @alice Apr 29
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        This is beautiful and so real

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      1. Earl Sweatpants‏ @SirFronksalot Apr 29
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        This is terrific. You're an incredible writer.

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