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Vanessa Willoughby

Vanessa Willoughby is an editor and a writer. Her work has appeared on The Toast, The Hairpin, Bitch, Bookslut, Thought Catalog, and Literally, Darling.

Imitation is Flattery: In Defense of Fanfiction

Fanfiction may seem like low-lying fruit, an effortless jab at aspiring writers with more than a passing interest in a ...

Living Her Best Life: Woman Reads Claudia Rankine’s CITIZEN at Trump Rally

In an awe-inspiring, highly relevant, admirably witty display of civil disobedience, a woman went for viral after she was spotted ...

Black Love and Feminism in THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD

In my English and Literature classes, whether they were undertaken at the high school, undergraduate, or graduate level, the novels ...

Miss Jordan Catalano? Read the Jessica Darling Series

Earlier this week, LOGO fulfilled my teenage angst nostalgia by running a My So-Called Life marathon. The show, which was ...

THE LOVER by Marguerite Duras is the Anti-LOLITA

Despite its title, The Lover is not a love story. Like Nabokov’s Lolita, older men act on their intense attractions ...

Sylvia Plath and the Faults of Young Love

When it comes to contemplating what constitutes romantic love, I turned to books instead of the fractured family dynamics silently ...

BELOVED (Not American History) Taught Me About the Horrors of Slavery

This is a guest post from Vanessa Willoughby. Vanessa is an editor and a writer. Her work has appeared on The ...

Unpopular Opinion: I Like Marie Calloway

This is a guest post from Vanessa Willoughby. Vanessa is an editor and a writer. Her work has appeared on The ...