“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 …
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.
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