8 Jul
Samara
Delulu Is the Solulu
A founder's take on why girls have to disguise ambition as luck to be allowed to want anything at all
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New sectionGirltalk · gossip · situationships
the Spill
What we tell each other at 2am,
in the group chat, on the walk home.
House rule
Real names, or none at all. No dragging by full government name. Every story here was told to us in confidence, and then written down anyway.
- the situationship
"It wasn't a situationship. But it also wasn't nothing."
Four months. Two spring breaks. Zero definitions. Anonymous, 17, on the language we don't have for the thing between hookup and boyfriend.
read the spill - friend group
"The group chat that went silent for eleven days."
Something happened. Nobody said what. On the specific violence of being suddenly boring to your best friends.
read the spill - receipts
"He said 'I don't want a label'. Then he got a girlfriend two weeks later."
A field guide to the specific brand of boy who can't commit to you but can, actually, commit to the girl who lives two dorms down.
read the spill - friend breakup
"A timeline of my best friend and I falling out of love."
Not with a fight. With a slow, embarrassing shrinking. On the female friendships nobody warned us are the hardest ones to lose.
read the spill
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