Unsexy Sh*t

It was Aug. 15, 2021. The floors of 33F creaked under the weight of a dream come true. My sister Melissa and I — tired, excited, overly idealistic — sat on the hardwood of our first New York City apar...

Sex? Cute. But have you ever shared a toothbrush or a Google Calendar? Erotic. Let’s be honest: the real freaky stuff isn’t happening in bed (most of the time) – it’s happening when someone watches yo...

To me, being fluent means being unafraid to look forward — and to look inward. It means we don’t gloss over the hard stuff in the name of aesthetics or “wellness.” We get really fucking real about it....

“Your twenties are the best years of your life!” A beautifully packaged delusion that’s been shoved down our throats since we were, like, 15. Your twenties were marketed to you like a rom-com: you’d h...

Photo courtesy of Pinterest It’s 2025, and talking about mental health is almost as common as dissecting Hailey and Justin’s marriage. Yet somehow, there’s still some weird stigma around anxiety and d...

Intrusive thoughts. Ruminating thoughts. Catastrophic thoughts. Anxious thoughts. What-if thoughts. Obsessive thoughts. Call them what you want — we’ve all been caught in that mental loop that tells u...

I have battled chronic illness for nearly a decade. What started out as late-stage Lyme Disease has since evolved into severe mold illness, toxic poisoning and a multitude of parasitic infections. Aft...

Not so subtle flex, but I was doing the whole “influencer” thing before most of you even knew what that term meant. AKA, I walked so the 20-billion-dollar influencer industry could run. Just kidding. ...

When you’re 17, “cool” is determined by what car you drive or what college you are going to in the fall (bonus points if it’s Michigan or Wisconsin). When you’re 20, cool is determined by the size of ...