Eden Arielle Gordon is a writer and musician. Her work has been published in Honeysuckle Magazine, Lilith Magazine, and Untapped Cities. She graduated from Barnard College in 2019 and lives in Brooklyn.
Mikaela Straus’s debut LP raises questions about the boundary between using queerness as a brand and using one’s power to create an inclusive community.
“Lmao” and “haha / ha / ha! hahaha” will be discussed at a later date, but today we’re focusing on the granddaddy of text-speak, the ever-useful “lol.”