“I’m trying to unpack what it means to think I’m pretty, and how I’ve been told my whole life that that’s how you want to be, but also you’re not allowed to think that you are pretty. That’s a weird thing to be feeling and wrestling with all the time as this half-baked grown person. Because I think I’m pretty! And that shouldn’t be something that makes my stomach flip to tell you.”

“I don’t like that I have all of this internalized misogyny that I feel like I have to listen to and dress for, but it definitely exists.”