Articles by Kate Carraway
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Li'l Thinks
Friends
Friendship is a constantly self-renewing frontier of human relationships, a Wild West of emotional and temporal adventure times. The stuff of great friendships applies to kindergarteners sharing a snack as much as it does to Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks watching movies together after dinner. It reveals our truest natures. Full story
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Obseshes
Punk and Me: A Dissociation Love Story
There was a year of high school where I basically only listened to the Velvet Underground, and so it went from there. My primary bands are hardcore: Black Flag, Minor Threat, and the Adolescents. I also like X and Social Distortion and Bad Brains and some Fugazi and the Germs. Bu… Full story
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Obseshes
Rabbit-Soft Self-Care
So although my purpose at the moment is only to absorb and absorb and absorb the human horror that has been steadily unfolding in Boston (are y’all shivering, too?), I can offer up some mostly other, mostly unrelated Obseshes of the week for you. Just a little rabbit-soft self-ca… Full story
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Obseshes
Bummer Obseshes
Obseshes aren’t always the happier, excitinger, positive-bright-sided things of life, you guys. Obseshes are also the bleakest, most-worst preoccupations, which are just as likely to dominate a subconscious/conscious/conscience as whatever it is you’re bopping around to and lovin… Full story
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Li'l Thinks
Classism
Fun fact: when you don’t know what you’re talking about, you’re probably talking about class. I’d say half of what seems to be racist and sexist and xenophobic is classist and allowed to be because nobody gets into it, and nobody wants to. Classism in action is often tucked into… Full story
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Obseshes
A Million Little Ones
Maybe more like a half-million medium-sized ones, in the spirit of springtime, or of pink-yellow-blue flower buds, or of the jillions of ice crystals and snowflakes that have us/me locked into this forever-April torment. Let’s do a million little ones just because. Full story
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Obseshes
Everyone's All About It
VICE very presciently did up a whole issue loosely themed around spring break (I wrote about “limited chaos,” which is going to solve your life if it needs solving) (probably), and my girls are all about it and are scrapping whatever nascent fashion plans were in place for S/S 13… Full story
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Obseshes
The Dunham Rule
Last week I invented “Swift-boating” to describe the undue overattention and bushfire criticism that a young, pretty woman who says stuff (“says stuff”) inevitably experiences. This week I’d like to submit the “Dunham rule” as a related phenomenon, in which a woman who has demons… Full story
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Li'l Thinks
Limited Chaos
I have two recurring dreams. One is none of your business until I make it your business and the other you’re going to hear about even if you don’t want to: It’s about a familiar-since-forever kind of weekend beach party cum bacchanal, a performance of chaos. Full story
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Obseshes
Enough with the Psychodramas Already
My feelings are SOMETIMES a crystal unicorn locked in a curio cabinet that gets dusted monthly. I mean, in one most-of-the-time sense, I’m high-functioning; in another sense, in the sense we will now discuss, I’m made of glass. (SOMETIMES!) It’s fine. Full story
The Water, Tea, and Light Diet
This Woman Is Doing It for 100 Days 
The Magic Kingdom Is Creepy
Photos of Life in the Shadow of the Mouse 
We Interviewed Rand Paul
He's Not Quite as Annoying as His Dad 
Istanbul Rising
On the Ground in Taksim Square 
From Tahrir to Occupy to Istanbul
An Anatomy of Current and Future Protest 
Weed Wine
Brough to You by California's Finest Vintners 
