we are all 'girl harmonizing with fan'
on the strange nostalgias we harbour
Hi angels!!!! Full disclosure: mama is TIRED. If you’re a Close Friend you know exactly what I’ve been up to (#girlbossing #doing #the #MOST) and if you’re not, well, YOU SHOULD BECOME ONE RIGHT NOW.
As much as I love SHE-EOing my way around the city, I’m about ready to head home (only for a weekend because then I’m going on tour around NZ - eek.) Love this one crazy life, love you even more xxx
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This section is written by the refreshing-as-a-house-chardonnay-on-a-steamy-day (and co-author of our debut book Make It Make Sense) Bel Hawkins. Each week Bel comes here to chime in about the things she’s been loling at, yearning for, or totally mystified by. Luckily for us, she also writes our Sunday advice column ‘Wait, But What?’ for all our paying supporters who want to make sense of the world!! Upgrade your plan to get her newsy here!
Are you harbouring some... strange nostalgias?
Hi crushes <3
Having an absolutely gorgeous, random week - hbu? I've befriended some new neighbours on my street to have spritzes with, continued pursuing my new haus dance passion, which has now become 50% of my personality, and even got to meet some of you recently in my poetry workshops! Sometimes life is so good, and you shouldn't ever question it.
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Luce and I have been laughing lately about this trend on TikTok of people harmonising with their (literal) fans. It sparked a whole convo about the strange nostalgias people are harbouring for... simpler times? Like... what did you use to do when you were bored before you had a TV in your hand? Are we missing boredom? Why are people romanticising things like lockdown and burner phones? Do we all just want to quit our jobs and move to the countryside and... back to our childhoods?
In trend forecasting, which I sometimes dabble in for work, we talk about cultural pendulum shifts between progressive, new technologies (you probably haven't heard of AI and crypto, but they're crazy) and a collective yearning back to practical simplicity (people buying burner phones, analog photography, CD walkmans coming back into fashion etc etc).
I sometimes wonder whether we're in the latter: we miss the unexamined life (not being able to google ourselves and therapy being less of a mainstream thing), we miss not knowing what everyone was up to all the time (that weird feeling where you catch up with friends and they know exactly what's been going on because they've seen you tagged in peoples' Stories), and we miss a... simpler existence and doing weird, mundane, analogue things?
I miss that feeling of being away from my phone for the day, coming home and feeling like I have a whole digital world to catch up with. And you?
As per - see you this weekend for Wait, But What? where I'll continue answering your existentialisms. Ily!
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The Biden administration is sending $1 billion more in weapons to Israel
Ahhh yes, that’s one way to secure Gen Z’s vote! Yesterday the Biden administration has told key lawmakers that it would send more than $1 billion in additional arms and ammunition to Israel, just after putting another arms transfer on hold citing “concern for civilian casualties in Gaza.”
As per AP news:
The package disclosed Tuesday includes about $700 million for tank ammunition, $500 million in tactical vehicles and $60 million in mortar rounds, the congressional aides said.
Wanna make your boyband obsession your job? Let me help xxx
Angels!!! If you’re under 30 and want to start a business (or just have a million ideas swimming around in your head) then plz come and hang out with me and some other SICK entrepreneurs at this hot and free and fun event!!!
Where and when??
Christchurch, Ōtautahi, 21st May
The TALENT:
Here’s a lil about who I’m gonna be speaking with:
Sarah Brown
Sarah is a best-selling author, communicator, producer and founder of multiple community initiatives and non-profit ventures like She Is Not Your Rehab.
What she gives a shit about: “Creating violence-free communities.”
Ben Scales
Ben is the CEO and co-founder of KiwiFibre which - and stay with me here besties - creates natural fibre composite materials from *Harakeke* - a natively grown New Zealand wonder plant, and one of the world’s strongest natural fibres.
What he gives a shit about: “Bringing together the worlds of design, nature and business in order to solve problems.”
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Some things I’ve been reading or loving:
Gracie Abrams’ New Album Features Taylor Swift Collaboration!!!
Eurovision Is Plunged Into Crisis as Deep Political Divisions Intensify
Obsessed with Sabrina Carpenter’s 25th birthday cake:
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I turned 25 a few months ago and my friend sent me that exact meme so she's feeling like a trendsetter hahahah