I’ve always been a great stylist but a bad “business person”. Which is all perhaps to be expected. However, it’s certainly not ideal when you’re self-employed. I have felt jaded and removed from the rat race since October 2023. Everything feels shallow when the world is crumbling around us.
02.02.2025 23:37 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0How is anyone advertising their services right now? It feels so hard to chat about style at this time. I know it’s political and I am trying to remember the power that style holds in the expression of our identities. But it still feels very hard. I haven’t been able to promote my work in months.
02.02.2025 23:35 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0This is heartbreaking.
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I wake up every day with a feeling of dread in my stomach. I’ve been having nightmares about this, and I think I’ve made myself physically sick with the stress over the past couple of weeks.
And this is a NORMAL reaction. What is NOT normal, is everything that’s going on.
I can’t continue business as usual knowing what is happening to my neighbours in the US. This isn’t just empathy (though that is a large part of it), it’s also the understanding that we are intertwined. This impacts us. The Overton Window has been shifted so much. I feel like I’m going crazy.
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