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Leggings Are for Boomers
All the Pilates Girlies are wearing big pants now and you can too.
Sep 3
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August 2025
The Wellness Industry Is Coming for Our Colons
If you're not having a #fibergirlsummer are you having a summer at all?
Aug 22
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Clean Girls Are Out. Tired Girls Are In.
But only a certain kind of tired girl. Don't get it twisted.
Aug 16
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The Mythical Allure of Pretty Girls Eating
And why I can't stop watching their TikTok videos
Aug 12
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Is This New Breast-Milk Flavored Ice Cream Really the Tits?
The new flavor from Frida Mom setting the Internet abuzz is basically in my own backyard but I think I'll pass.
Aug 8
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Tuesday Fluff: Don't Turn into a Cyborg
On uniformity in beauty, the ongoing Milkpocalypse, and important LGBTQ+ news you should know.
Aug 5
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Alexis Barad-Cutler
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July 2025
We All Get Old and Ugly
Bikini selfies, aging, and the uncontained body
Jul 31
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Tuesday Fluff: 'Good' work, baby lifts, and a TikTok ear worm.
A roundup of things that caught my eye on the internet and now live rent-free in my brain.
Jul 29
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Alexis Barad-Cutler
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You Don't Have to Be Here. You Get to Be Here.
Group fitness, hearing aids, and embracing my forties.
Jul 28
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Alexis Barad-Cutler
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Welcome to The Tyranny of Pretty
A newsletter about how the beauty complex shapes our identities, our bodies, and the performance of femininity.
Jul 28
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