Back on IG Doing My Makeup
And I'm still a Feminist.
I took a 33-week break from my genxtaste IG page and decided this past week I just felt like posting there again.
Here is a link to all the products I used.
The break came shortly after the social media burnout I experienced last October, and in the almost year that has passed, I haven’t actually missed it (at all). But I felt like I wanted to re-explore that relationship again now that I’m in a different place mentally with other parts of my life.
Since I was a kid, I’ve found that whenever I’m struggling I tend to do one of two things — completely overshare, or completely disappear. I’m interested in seeing if I can finally find a middle ground somewhere.
In the video I’m getting ready for my friend Deb’s baby shower while listening to Kathleen Hanna’s memoir Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk. The song in the video is the one Bikini Kill song I knew well from my freshman year of college, “Blood One.”
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