Articles

  • 2 weeks ago | iwilldowhateveriwant.substack.com | Mackenzie Thomas

    It’s been a slow choke. April feels like the last day of school. Bittersweet but more sweet-leaning, even the moments of hopelessness I suffered seemed to have a reasonable resolve, and I think I prefer that more to the senselessness of this past winter. Though this month wasn’t amazing, it feels like I’m at the beginning of something good, and I’ve heard a rumor that beginnings are never easy.

  • 1 month ago | iwilldowhateveriwant.substack.com | Mackenzie Thomas

    We’ve been doing this for a year now. It’s funny—I started this blog in March, a month I’ve never had any reason to look forward to. In fact, I’ve always considered it my least favorite month. But now, I guess it’s our month. It’s our anniversary. Honestly, I didn’t think I’d keep up with the blog.

  • 2 months ago | iwilldowhateveriwant.substack.com | Mackenzie Thomas

    I only have one rule about sharing on the internet- things in development are strictly off-limits. This is ironic due to the nature of who I am, often I’m called ‘vulnerable’ which is something I take in stride, but I don’t know if it’s completely true. Maybe I have the concept of vulnerability all wrong, I feel like if I was truly vulnerable I would share my emotions as they come to me, but I despise chaos.

  • 2 months ago | iheartmess.com | Emily Kirkpatrick |Mackenzie Thomas

    Hi hi hi!Hope you are well and staying warm. Is anyone else waking up every day with a deep need to unleash a primordial scream but you’re afraid if you start you’ll never stop?

  • 2 months ago | jessicadefino.substack.com | Jessica Defino |Emily Kirkpatrick |Mackenzie Thomas

    Current time: 0:00 / Total time: -5:28Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. We’re back with another very special paid subscriber only episode of The Review of Mess: a podcast collaboration between The Review of Beauty (by me, Jessica DeFino) and I <3 Mess (a fashion newsletter from Emily Kirkpatrick). For this installment, we invited the iconic , writer of the newsletter , to join us in conversation.