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dr4gme · 2 months

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#fortesa latifi #ex re #dad bod #fleabag #on grief #poetry #yearning #web weaving

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sicknessinmotion · 7 months

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you are the grief i remember you as

fortesa latifi // fleabag // j. estanislao lopez // @promqueendyke // okechukwu nzelu // glennon doyle melton.

#poetry #quotes #web weaving #webweaving #.w #words #excerpts #on love #on grief #fortesa latifi #fleabag #j. estanislao lopez #okechukwu nzelu #glennon doyle melton

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feminist-space · 1 month

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Article by Fortesa Latifi:

"Being the child of an influencer, Vanessa tells me, was the equivalent of having a full-time job—and then some. She remembers late nights in which the family recorded and rerecorded videos until her mother considered them perfect and days when creating content for the blog stretched into her homeschooling time. If she expressed her unease, she was told the family needed her. “It was like after this next campaign, maybe we could have more time to relax. And then it would never happen,” she says. She was around 10 years old when she realized her life was different from that of other children. When she went to other kids’ houses, she was surprised by how they lived. “I felt strange that they didn’t have to work on social media or blog posts, or constantly pose for pictures or videos,” she says. “I realized they didn’t have to worry about their family's financial situation or contribute to it.”

Vanessa, who requested anonymity to speak freely about her family dynamics, says she helped create content for huge companies like Huggies and Hasbro when her mom landed endorsement deals. When she reached puberty and began menstruating, her mother had her do sponsored posts for sanitary pads. “It was so mortifying,” she says. “I just felt like I wanted to crawl into a hole and never come out.”

Being part of an influencer family changed everything about her life, Vanessa says. “Sometimes I didn’t know where the separation was between what was real and what was curated for social media.” And her mother’s online presence indelibly warped their relationship. “Being an influencer kid turned my relationship with my mom into more of an employer-employee relationship than a parent-child one,” she says. “Once you cross the line from being family to being coworkers, you can’t really go back.”

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Khanbalinov has had zero new offers since he took his kids offline. “When we were showing our kids, brands were rolling in left and right—clothing companies, apps, paper towel companies, food brands. They all wanted us to work with them,” he says. “Once we stopped, we reached out to the brands we had lined up and 99 percent of them dropped out because they wanted kids to showcase their products. And I fought back, like, you guys are a paper towel company—why do you need a kid selling your stuff?”

The law has woefully lagged behind the culture here, but there’s signs that policymakers might finally be catching up. In 2023, in addition to Illinois, three other states—New York, Washington State, and New Jersey—proposed bills to protect influencer kids. Contrast that with the flurry of legislative activity in just the first two months of 2024. Seven more states—Maryland, Georgia, Ohio, Missouri, California, Arizona, Minnesota—have introduced similar legislation. Some of the bills are going one step further to protect the privacy of the kids featured in this content. In some states, proposed legislation would include a clause that borrows from a European legal doctrine known as the “right to be forgotten”—it would allow someone who was featured in content when they were a child to request that platforms permanently delete those posts. None of the current legislation introduced, however, would outright bar the practice of featuring minors in monetized content.

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The movement on this issue was glacial for years, but it finally feels like the ice has thawed. Much of that progress is thanks to activists like Cam Barrett (she/they), a 25-year-old creator (@softscorpio) who uses TikTok to talk about her experience of being overshared in their childhood and adolescence. Barrett doesn’t go by her legal name anymore because of the online history it’s tied to. “I love my legal name,” Barrett tells me. “I just don’t love the digital footprint attached to it.” Last year, Barrett testified in front of the Washington State legislature as a proponent of a bill to protect influencer kids. This year, they testified again—this time, in front of the Maryland legislature.

“As a former content kid myself, I know what it’s like to grow up with a digital footprint I never asked for,” Barrett told the Maryland House of Delegates Economic Matters Committee in February. “As my mom posted to the world my first-ever menstrual cycle, as she posted to the world the intimate details about me being adopted, her platform grew and I had no say in what was posted.” And yet, Cam says her activism has been healing.

For Cam and other influencer children, getting a paycheck won’t give them back what they lost—a normal childhood unobstructed by the cameras pushed into their faces. But it could be the beginning of some version of restitution. “My friends say I’m fighting for little Cam,” she tells me. “It feels very healing because I didn’t have anyone to fight for me as a kid.”"

Read the full article here: https://www.cosmopolitan.com/lifestyle/a60125272/sharenting-parenting-influencer-cost-children/

#children of influencers #influencers #children's rights #social media #fortesa latifi

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oldwinesoul · 3 months

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“you never thought your body could be anything except bruised. your locked door. your haunted house. the unlearning is taking so long.”

// Fortesa Latifi, “fingertips,” We Were Young

#spilled poetry #fortesa latifi #poets on tumblr #dark academia #aesthetic #spilled thoughts #spilled ink #19th century #words

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thighholsterdean · 4 months

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this is how it was always going to be. you know this. you've always known. you wrote the script.

[what resembles the grave but isn't, anne boyer || lazarus rising, supernatural || I didn't apologize to the well, mahmoud darwish (trans. fady joudah) || unknown || grief lessons: four plays by euripides, anne carson || carry on, supernatural || the truth about grief, fortesa latifi || anecdote of the pig, tory adkisson || aeschylus: the oresteia, aeschylus || @/heavensghost]

#web weaving #dean winchester #supernatural #spn #anne carson #anne boyer #mahmoud darwish #fortesa latifi #aeschylus #tory adkisson

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inejgahafa · 1 year

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wedarkacademia · 2 years

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All my grief says the same thing— this isn't how it's supposed to be. And the world laughs, holds my hope by my throat, says: but this is how it is.

Fortesa Latifi, The Truth About Grief

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wolfyoucanttame · 8 months

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The good news is I survived knowing you. The bad news is you were something I had to survive.

-fortesa Lafiti

#literature #spilled thoughts #authors #poem #poetry #inspiring quotes #spilled poetry #quotes #words #dark acadamia quotes #dark academia #asthetic #cottagecore #survival #ghosts of the past #ghosts #grief #regret #fortesa latifi

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not2menotifitsyou · 2 years

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Some thoughts on healing and letting love back into my life

Louise Glück // Marie Howe // Leslie Feinberg // Fortesa Latifi // Louise Glück

#mine #writing #web weaving #poetry #toxic relationship #louise glück #marie howe #leslie feinberg #fortesa latifi #healing #love #letting love back in #parallels

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thensson · 17 days

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It Didn't Change Anything, but Love Was There

The Snail and the Rosebush, Hans Christian Andersen || Forgetting, Joy Ladin || Sue Zhao || As Long as There is Love, There Will be Grief, Heidi Priebe || We Were Young, Fortesa Latifi || Scenes from Dune Part Two (2024) ||

#dark academia #academia #web weaving #poems and quotes #chaotic academia #romantic academia #poetry #dune part two #dune part 2 #dune movie #paul atreides #chani kynes #paul x chani #hans christian andersen #joy ladin #sue zhao #heidi priebe #fortesa latifi

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gayrefrain · 2 years

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When princess bride said “life is pain, anyone who says differently is selling something” and when when fleabag said “women are born with pain built in and men have to seek it” and when fortesa latifi said “And the world laughs, holds my hope by my throat, says but this is how it is” and when zora neale hurston said “If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it” and all I want to do is scream to the world that I’m in pain but I know I’m not supposed to so I just sit and breathe and my heart hurts

#quotes #poetry #the princess bride #fleabag #fortesa latifi #zora neale hurston

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dr4gme · 11 months

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#longing #poetry #web weaving #memories #cant let go #yearning #David Foster Wallace #grief #clementine von radics #ethel cain #fortesa latifi

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woundedsaint · 2 years

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"This was always going to happen. She's been dead since the beginning."

— Aeschylus: The Oresteia

hannibal, apéritif // the truth about grief, fortesa latifi // space oddity, david bowie // glass essays, anne carson // h of h playbook, anne carson // the sacrifice of iphigenia, corrado giaquinto // the world keeps ending, and the world goes on, franny choi // rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead, tom stoppard // heat lighting, mitski // hannibal, mizumono

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quillaffinity · 2 years

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Fifth BKDK Web Weave while waiting for them to hold hands (spoilers)

this isn’t control - i could never control my heart towards you

this is the last long scream i will ever make - the last kiss, the last embrace - i can ever give to you

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MHA by Horikoshi Kōhei

First BKDK Web Weave | Second BKDK Web Weave | Third BKDK Web Weave | Fourth BKDK Web Weave (pt.1) | Fourth BKDK Web Weave (pt.2)

mha / richard siken / mha / fredrik backman / mha - school brief novel / mha / mha / mary oliver / fatima aamer bilal / mha / rainer maria rilke / mha / nicole dollanganger, “only angels have wings” / zz ward, “til the casket drops” / mha / fortesa latifi / mha / mha / mha / nikki giovanni / hozier, “talk” / mha / mha / emily brontë / mha / mha / mha / carol ann duffy, “medusa” / hozer, “take me to church” / emily brontë / mha / euripides, “orestes” (trans. anne carson) / mha / mha / ethel cain, “hard times” / mha / the mountain goats, “sax rohmer #1″

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ardent-reflections · 10 months

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You never thought your body could be anything except bruised. Your locked door. Your haunted house. The unlearning is taking so long.

Fortesa Latifi, "Fingertips", We Were Young.

#fortesa latifi #fingertips #we were young #literature #poetry #spilled thoughts #words #poem #poems and quotes #quotes #lit #learning #growth quotes #life quote #change

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hauntedbythenarrative · 1 year

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The Truth About Grief, Fortesa Latifi//Grief (1902), Anna Ancher

#anna ancher #grief #the truth about grief #fortesa latifi #on grief #web weaving #quotes #words #poetry #mine #death

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