I don't own a single piece of clothing from the athleisure brand TALA, but I've watched almost every bit of content from their latest creator brand trip. I'm entranced by the world they've built on Instagram, and that entrancement grew tenfold when they took it offline to create an immersive, luxury-branded holiday: "Hotel TALA." Sun-drenched villas, morning pilates, beach volleyball with the ocean as an audience. The content was beautiful, but that isn't what hooked me. It

Three years, one breakup, and the woman who taught me the love story I was looking for wasn't romantic. I am twenty-three years old and, as a rite of passage, I have finally started watching Sex and the City. The first time I ever watched an episode, I was twenty. At the time, I had a terrible self-tan, a nose ring, and a tooth gem. Looking back, that version of me feels less like my younger self and more like a stranger staring back at me in the mirror. I was in the middle o

The most dangerous sentence a man can say in a marriage might be this: “Just make me a list.” On the surface, it sounds helpful. Cooperative, even. A man offering to pitch in, to carry part of the load, to prove he’s willing to help run the household. But to many women, that sentence lands very differently. Because the list he’s asking for, the one he’s willing to complete, is already running silently in someone else’s head. Usually hers. Always mine. The mental load has been

The first date was never the problem. The performance was. How many times can one woman answer, “So… tell me about yourself?” Before she loses her mind? First dates have always been one of those things that stress me out the most in the world. As much as I love to flirt, meet new people, chat, and hear different opinions, I’ve always hated first dates. At what point did a first date become a networking event with sexual tension? Normally, meeting someone is easy; maybe liking

The rise of “what-about-me-ism.” Why nobody can just scroll past anymore. Imagine you share a recipe for banana bread online. A seemingly innocuous act: imparting knowledge about a specific baked good. So why does the comments section suddenly become riddled with controversy? “What if I don’t like bananas?” “But I am gluten free?” “I don’t have an oven at my house.” “I’m in a calorie deficit. This is far too many calories per serving” It’s all down to this phenomenon, “what-a

On anorexia, recovery, and learning how to want things again. I’ve been in recovery for three years. I’ve had anorexia before, and for a disorder so often glamorized, it can feel like there’s a gluttonous fat demon living inside you. Every day is spent trying to keep it trapped, terrified that one day it will tear through your skin and reveal itself. So when you look in the mirror, you don’t see yourself. You don’t see the pale, sick person staring back at you. You see a grow

I’m not sure if I want to have children. When I think about it, it makes me a little panicked. Because at some point in the not-too-distant future, the choice will become urgent. I have so much love to give, and I can feel that within myself there is the capacity to adore beyond measure and carry out countless selfless acts for the objects of my adoration. However, we live in a world where women are disproportionately expected to shoulder the responsibility of parenthood. Thi

What if wellness isn’t making us well? Somewhere between ice baths, glucose monitors, and longevity hacks, we stopped living and started performing health. The day Bryan Johnson got sick, I realized wellness had stopped being about health. Somewhere along the way, it had become performance art. Until recently, I had no idea who Bryan Johnson was. Today, it's almost impossible to avoid him if your algorithm has even a passing interest in longevity, wellness, or biohacking. If

This album was made predominantly in Paris at the end of 2025 alongside Charli XCX’s longtime collaborators, A.G. Cook and Finn Keane. Following the release of her sensational album BRAT, a worldwide tour, a mockumentary film The Moment, taking on movie roles, and making the soundtrack for Wuthering Heights, Charli XCX understandably felt she needed to slow down and give herself a break. The Kylie Jenner scene from The Moment perfectly encapsulates that feeling. Charli: “Funn

Apparently Body Positivity Ended The Moment We Could Buy Skinny. We survived heroin chic, size-zero culture and decades of being taught to hate our bodies. We spent years trying to undo the damage. Now thinness can seemingly be bought in an injection, and suddenly the bodies we fought so hard to accept are disappearing before our eyes. I'm sorry, but we're not putting that fucking VHS back in. We are not doing this to women again… Something has been bothering me lately. And

After nearly two decades living and working in New York City, I moved to Colorado in January 2020. Looking back, I realized I’d been living inside a hermetically sealed bubble. Nearly everyone I knew was liberal. We read the same publications, shared our outrage, and spent so much time talking to one another that I forgot we weren't talking to everyone. I felt secure in my assumptions about what a "progressive man" looked like, confident that if we checked the same boxes on a

Is Living Slowly Becoming a Scam? Can we really thrive in a world built on hard rules? “Let me tell you what’s wrong with you: you’re far too comfortable. And you got comfortable way before you could actually afford to be.” Once again, my mentor, a close friend fifteen years my senior, was laying down the cold, hard truth. Over the last thirteen years, she’s built businesses so wildly successful that she can casually check out from the machine for a whole month whenever she p

Ask a man or woman what the worst thing people can do to them is. They respond so quickly with “Cheating”; you wonder whether their brain could have generated anything else. My last girls’ night out, one of my friends broke a not-very-awkward silence with: “I caught him cheating; I think he destroyed me.”And then I started to think: “Did he?” Is cheating really worth the hype? The worst thing someone can do to you can’t really be cheating. Cheating actually has nothing to do

I used to want a man who could sweep me off my feet: tall, six-pack abs, killer jawline, the whole white-horse fantasy. And of course, I had standards, or rather, a meticulously curated checklist I’d probably written long before I knew anything about love. He had to be smart, ambitious, financially stable, emotionally intelligent, and somehow still effortlessly cool. Back then, I could describe my dream man in obsessive detail, right down to the brand of his tailored suit, ge

It’s common knowledge that when someone announces life-changing news on Instagram, they become a celebrity for the day. Possibly for the week. It’s their time to shine. But what’s less discussed is what happens next. Because the real performance is in the comments section. I might have been the last person in the world to realise that those perfectly executed pregnancy announcements you see on Instagram are actually just digital templates you customise with your own surname a