Eloping in the Pandemic
We eloped. The pandemic helped me justify the wedding I wanted.
Boshemia in Paris : What Emily in Paris Gets Wrong (and Right)
Boshemia designer and contributor Lauren Elizabeth, who lived in France for close to seven years, reacts to Emily in Paris.
On Moving Back to Appalachia
I’m uncomfortable with how Appalachian identity works in the media and in academia, both because I think it’s a problematic identity that I hold too dearly and because I think I’m faking it.
Poets in Space: the First Writer-In-Residence of the Night Sky
Scientists can talk to me about lumens and refractions, about reflections and lightwaves, and I won’t understand any of it, no matter how much you try, but I think I can say something about the night sky, if you give me a chance. Shouldn’t a poet do it?
America, it’s the 4th of July, and We Need to Talk
Boshemia designer and contributor Lauren Elizabeth reckons with America on the 4th of July in the wake of personal and collective loss.
Lana, Glamour and White Privilege
Lana Del Rey citing herself as glamorous, fragile and delicate while othering women of colour as “strong,” goes hand in hand with a long tradition of viewing white women as glamourous and women of colour as exotic