Out of Mayhem, Hope: Reflecting on Lady Gaga’s Mayhem
Lady Gaga’s latest album is a powerful reminder to dance through my own chaos of mental angst.

Lady Gaga’s latest album is a powerful reminder to dance through my own chaos of mental angst.

What’s almost as striking as the public hunger for violation is how genuinely celebrities like Hulk Hogan seem to feel violated when these videos are published.

We can pretend that bodies are shrines to our youth, but they are better considered as places. They can be havens and homes. They can be agents of mercy. But what they aren’t meant to be is preserved.

“Our grossly inflated perceptions of celebrities as one-dimensional figures are really questions about identity: Are we who people say we are or are we who we say we are?”
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