Every time the internet launches a disproportionate hate campaign towards a young woman, I’m suspicious. I lived through the Amber Heard Trial, I lived through the Anne Hathaway hate train. Reader, I lived through GamerGate…

Opening your phone these days is a bit like playing on a slot machine. You’re in for one of two outcomes: money, or loss. Luxury lifestyles, or dead children. It’s no wonder that we’re desperately reaching out for help in any direction.

Cottagecore is dead. Synth pop reigns in Midnights.

Taylor Swift taught me how to talk about differing-gender relationships long enough to get out of my hometown, and later, my college town, a script that allowed me to appear authentic even as I was struggling to articulate, internally, what I wanted out of my life. And for that, I love her.

What actually makes a good ally? At the apex of Pride Month, amidst the Taylor Swift buzz, the (all LGBTQ+) Boshemia team figured it was a good time to consider this question ourselves. Here are our thoughts.

It’s a fine line to tailor to the gays without coming off as pandering, or a privileged white girl who saw season 6 of RuPauls Drag Race for the first time on a plane. Anyway, here’s the new Taylor Swift song.

It’s not punk or edgy or cool to hate on other women just for the hell of it; it’s internalised misogyny.