Brynn Valentine
Brynn Valentine is a London-based writer and trends forecaster with a background in Social Anthropology. Her previous work has been featured in Aeon, Psyche, and Dazed Media, offering insights into both cultural trends and semiotics.
She also writes regularly on Substack, where her newsletter ‘@GoodValentine’ dives into cultural criticism, film, and abstract explorations of memory and modernity.
The pressure to look perfect is stronger than ever, with many feeling like cosmetic work is their only option. But when that work is deemed ‘unsuccessful’, the online response can be cruel.
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Dazed Digital
Sugaring does this for us. It sheds light on corners of the world where romance and commerce explicitly blur together, reminding us that themes such as love, labour, authenticity and compensation have always been, and continue to be, intricately interwoven – a far more slippery and arresting truth than we have previously been comfortable with.
Read more Psyche Mag
Both online and in-person, London’s post-adolescents become subjected to and active participants in meta-cringe. That is, the communal confirmation that something is ‘blown-out,’ or ‘bait.’ Then, despite looking down on such social practices, aesthetic and locations, going on to participate in it anyway for the mere reason that it is the lifestyle within their proximity.
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Substack
We cannot endlessly hate ourselves for failing to be someone we have never been. However, we can harbor self-criticism for not measuring up to our past selves, for losing our footing on the path to self-improvement.
Read moreCult Mag
We continue to overlook the fact that material items have the power to shape our experiences, access, and sense of self for the better. However, this phenomenon of great transformation doesn’t occur through grand purges. It happens through repetitive dedication—returning to an item again and again until it is worn down into something else entirely.
Read moreTruemag