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There once was a time where we all got tarted up in vinyl mini skirts, tie on half tops that the cat couldn't fit into and ripped fish nets, chain smoked, got trashed on shots served out of test tubes, danced until we couldn't, threw up, danced some more, drank some more and slept it …
Continue reading "The New Girls Night Out: A Night with Miss Victory Violet"
I have spent the last 20 years of my life working my way into a career in journalism and then building upon it. In my late teens and early 20's, I really wasn't in the kind of head space that would have allowed me to sit in a classroom and learn. Depressed, traumatized as hell, …
When I started up with this website it was with the full intention of trying to become one of those super known internet pinups on Instagram with thousands of followers and gorgeous hair every day and amazing clothes and all of that bullshit. But progressively, because my life is an absolute disaster and pinup was …
I have come up with a theory that Donald Trump's porcine narcissism engulfs America to the extent that the world over now feels the necessity to out all of the other narcissistic piggies because they can't do anything about that one great big old mega pig. As I write this I know I am doing …
Continue reading "On Feminist theories, poverty and the cat"
While the only audience to it is those who see it on Instagram, myself and my cat, I have a deep, deep love of vintage lingerie. I love lace. I would live in lace if I could. But, that would be spectacularly impractical. So, having it on what I go to sleep in at night …
I haven't put up any new posts for a long, long time because I have been going through a depression. I am struggling financially, trying to get a second job and going through hell with that. The parameters under which I can have a second job are very difficult at that. Because I have two …
I haven't posted in weeks because I have been alone with my two kids and work to do and I have been battling it out with another depression. It was one of those too many things to do at once so all of them get done badly type of scenarios  and of course, the grief …
While I have had a whole string of really awful days over the last while, on one of those days, to try and make myself feel better and cared for, I hit buy on the item that had been hanging around in my Etsy cart for three weeks. I don't just like vintage lingerie, I …
Source: Masking my Burnout in Pink
While it may not seem obvious from the way I photograph or what I am photographed in, I am a struggling mother of two that scarcely gets some downtime. This whole summer, that I had planned on focusing on my health both mental and physical as well as my career, wound up being all of …
The Persistent Pinup 