Casey Kohlberg

Space Odyessy: or Fashion's Galactic Distraction current news cycle commentary on the first "all female" space flight, to the continuing conservative creep into the fashion industry

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Young Adulting let's compare scars, I'll tell you whose is worse.

Musing on Young Adult as a genre

Fashion Week Musings a la Milan with a literal Milano cookie or two

Mood from Milan Fashion Week. And I eat a literal Milano cookie during the process.

I would go back to eighth grade just to have Rick Riordan as a history teacher

Anger is an excellent place to write from. It’s passion, it’s fire. Depression, not so much.

This is horrendous

Melancholy and Euphoria in Venice : Carnevale Diary Signore e Signori!

I went to venice for Carnevale…
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New York Fashion Week has come and gone... A diary, and a musing on the state of Fashion currently

New York Fashion Week in Review!
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I Think I've Seen This Film Before... And the ending gave me hope for what we can do

Film and Media actually has given us a blueprint for how to move forward during the current administration

The Winter of our Discontent and hope springs eternal through the lens of fashion

Amidst socio-political turmoil musing about joy and beauty in fashion from Paris Couture Week & The Grammys #fashion #couture #redcarpet

I loved this take from the Grammys last night #kendricklamar #taylorswift

Seems like a good time to point out that you can download from the library of congress, and it would be worthwhile to download probably as much as you can while you can

The Collision of Fashion, Ethics, and Politics Complicated thoughts after the display of fashion at the Inauguration yesterday.

when fashion ethics and politics collide - Complicated thoughts on the fashion of the inauguration yesterday

and to feed and house their families – have made it that people will be forced to fall in line so not to have their livelihoods taken away from them. This is not a victory. 6/6

control their victim[s] by creating a cycle of dependence & uncertainty”. That is what happened here.That is what the first Trump administration did to all of us with the relentless news cycle. They have ensured that 170 million Americans - some of home are reliant on the app for their paycheck 5/

“Hey, this is where that path leads” will be taken as Cassandra was – ignored, until the wooden horse filled with Greek soldiers breaches the walls and Troy falls. I saw a comment that said “A narcissist taking something away and then giving it back is a common manipulative tactic used to control 4/

us who spoke up for it – and imagine the fear and pain that those who do actually make their livelihoods from it, seeing it all taken away at the snap of a finger – look like histrionic addicts. It’s delegitimizing of the very fears that will come to manifest. Those of us who said, like Cassandra 3/

warning that the language of specifically thanking Trump should be a signal to us that all of the social media platforms have effectively bowed and kissed the ring to whatever is coming next. After all of this, I wouldn’t say I’m happy it’s back. I’m still angry. Because now this makes those of 2/

TikTok is back. Likely with a 90 day stay as news creators are reporting. TikTok was down for all of maybe 15 hours – which in my opnion was plenty of time to tweak the algorithm to something that is more favorable to the right wing. One of the First TikTok’s I saw on my renewed feed was AOC 1/4

HOT TAKE: What the TikTok Ban Means to me. And Millions of others. An additional point that I didn’t feel I fully fleshed out in Rage Against the Machine Part 2 - particularly with the supreme court ruling yesterday that will uphold the law that bans TikTok from oper...

Day 1: its a major loss of community and organizing for women and minorities - and whether or not the incoming administration “saves” it - despite calling for the ban back in 2020 - never forget these tech companies are all in it for profits

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Elle Woods is the Feminist Hero we all deserve What, Like It's Hard?

“I’ll Show You How Valuable Elle Woods Can Be!” She says 3 days before the political change this weekend

I hate it here

Rage Against the Machine: Part Two Or, thoughts about the TikTok ban and it's potential ramifications

Thoughts on Meta’s influence behind the TikTok Ban

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The high school used for ‘Carrie’ ‘Teen Wolf’ ‘Freaky Friday’ and more has burned down as a result of the Palisades fires.

Trent Reznor says his favorite song of 2024 was Sabrina Carpenter's "Espresso" → cons.lv/t4UrAh

This Time Tomorrow Or, using music and art and fashion and film and books to see the good amidst the fear. Featuring the song of the same name by The Kinks.

This time tomorrow

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Finding Jane (Austen) Or, a road trip that Baby Casey took to find a film connection.

The New York Times put “Jane Austen’s England” on their 52 places to go in 2025 so here’s my Substack about the time I did that - in 2013.

A lot of Audrey Hepburn inspired looks on the Golden Globes Red Carpet Last Night - does this mean demure is here to stay?

This upsets me for so many reasons - but the long term repercussions on creative industries is obvious: if the heads of studios and publishing companies bow to this these so called liberal industries will fall to censorship albeit a different kind called “we don’t have the budget”.