Essays

Are you Verified?

Unpacking the blue check (and the orange one) + tattoo me

Jun 14, 2024 •

A Summer Manifesto

5 dates, one week, (re)Cognition summer

Jun 1, 2024 •

My Reflections on Pageants after 6 years

+ Philosophical Salon and some Hot Literati announcements

May 23, 2024 •

When do you get to Stop Hating Yourself?

On bodies, mothers, and female artists

May 15, 2024 •

I miss Ballet, does Ballet miss me?

& Ask Hot Literati #9

May 14, 2024 •

Confessions of a Midwestern Transplant

May 12, 2024 •

20. Little Deaths/Delights

Disappointment, people-sickness(?) , 2012 Instagram

Apr 29, 2024 •

In defense of the girlhood essays

& why teenage girls love Kafka

Apr 18, 2024 •

IT’S SO EASY TO EMBARRASS YOURSELF

On writing, living, and humiliation

Mar 28, 2024 •

Aren't We All Just Reflections?

On names, social media, & sentience

Mar 2, 2024 •

Club Penguin Existential Crisis

A quick note from Hailo

Mar 2, 2024 •

Auctioned Sentience

Feb 25, 2024 •

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