Tag: Bushwick
“Your Pain Is Your Biggest Asset”: Not Okay Goes for the White Girl’s Jugular and the Here-to-Stay Trend of Pain Performed for Fame
Once upon a time, on a street corner in Bushwick (where, of course, the “protagonist” of Not Okay lives), there was a manicured (read: commissioned) [Read More…]
Letting Go of Your Old Self: Tully
One of the few enviable human qualities is a predilection to kick into survival mode and the ability to move on from shattering traumas. We’re [Read More…]
Hannah Horvath Is Wrong: Living in New York Does Not Automatically Make You More Interesting Than People Who Don’t
One of the many fallacies propagated by Hannah Horvath a.k.a. Lena Dunham is the quote, “You are from New York, therefore you are naturally interesting.” [Read More…]
“Brooklyn Girls”: Designed to Make You Want to Leave Brooklyn If You Live There, Move There If You Don’t
Just when you thought Lana Del Rey was putting Brooklyn on blast too much, this rando named Catey Shaw comes along and one-ups her tenfold [Read More…]
Joan Didion’s Guide to Leaving New York Gets the Ultimate Homage with “Goodbye to All That: Writers on Loving and Leaving New York”
There is a feeling you get when you move to New York that can never be recaptured by any other experience in your life. It [Read More…]
High Maintenance Deserves More Funding Than Girls
Girls is somehow seen as the definitive source on what life for white people in Brooklyn is like. It is given the gentle tenderness of robust [Read More…]
