Vahini NaidooSmoking Hot: Why We Find Self-Destructive Women So SexyAt Paris Fashion Week in 2011, supermodel Kate Moss walked down the Louis Vuitton runway while languorously smoking a cigarette. It was No…Dec 16, 2016Dec 16, 2016
Vahini NaidooOn Normalizing Teen Singlehood in YAYA featuring romance is and always has been very popular. This is, of course, with good reason: literature containing first love — or even…Dec 7, 2016Dec 7, 2016
Vahini NaidooThe Three Kids’ Books That Made Me a FeministI vividly remember the first time I declared myself a feminist. I was ten-years-old and engaged in a conversation with my grandfather, who…Dec 2, 2016Dec 2, 2016
Vahini NaidooWhy Lane Kim Doesn’t Get the Worst Deal on Gilmore GirlsThe first time I watched an episode of Gilmore Girls, I was fifteen. I had a terrible flu and I was laid up in bed with a piece of toast, a…Oct 31, 2016Oct 31, 2016
Vahini NaidooWhy You Should Really Do NaNoWriMoIf I hadn’t done NaNoWriMo, I would never have achieved my dream of becoming a published author while still in my teens.Oct 30, 2016Oct 30, 2016
Vahini NaidooReview: The Regulars by Georgia ClarkA year or so ago, when the reality of my impending graduation from university and borderline-desperate financial situation hit me, I began…Oct 25, 2016Oct 25, 2016
Vahini NaidooWhy ‘You Do You’ Will Never Be Good EnoughEarlier this year, on International Women’s Day, Kim Kardashian penned and released a powerful essay on body image, sexuality and…Oct 22, 2016Oct 22, 2016
Vahini NaidooHow Working at a Bookstore Changed my Reading LifeIn September of 2013 I was lucky enough to score a job working at an independent bookstore. At the time, I was twenty and as…Oct 17, 2016Oct 17, 2016