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Eat Thy Neighbor’s Sourdough
“One tragedy of social media is girls not seeing their unique beauty and all starting to look the same,” says Freya India. (Illustration by The Free Press; images via Getty and Freya India)
I went deep into the world of ‘cottage food.’ Plus: A conversation with Freya India about how the internet ruined girlhood—and if we can ever get it back.
By Suzy Weiss
05.22.26 — Second Thought
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“One tragedy of social media is girls not seeing their unique beauty and all starting to look the same.” So says Freya India, one of our newest Free Press columnists, and the author of the brand-new book Girls®: Generation Z and the Commodification of Everything. Freya has spent a lot of time thinking about what the internet, and social media, has done …

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Suzy Weiss
Suzy Weiss is a co-founder and reporter for The Free Press and host of Second Thought. Before that, she worked as a features reporter at the New York Post. There, she covered the internet, culture, dating, dieting, technology, and Gen Z. Her work has also appeared in Tablet, the New York Daily News, The Wall Street Journal, and McSweeney's Internet Tendency, among others.
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