Performative became a supremely popular callout online as Black Lives Matter allies sought likes without doing the hard work. Credit: Bob Al-Greene / Mashable Whenever I read the word “performative” ...

You may have seen him walking around campus: jorts and a tattered sweater, watered-down matcha in hand, wired headphones trailing into a tote bag that almost certainly also houses a worn copy of “The ...

The critics of “performative politics” misunderstand something fundamental: Democracy survives only when citizens perform it. He’s probably reading Elena Ferrante—and that’s fine! If you’ve spent any ...

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. Labubu, Clairo, feminist literature, matcha lattes, wired headphones. What sounds like a sentence ...

A wave of TikTok jokes accusing men of faking their interests to attract women has given rise to the term “performative matcha,” a label now applied to guys who order trendy green tea drinks for ...

If you have seen the ‘pick me’ and ‘performative male’ collaboration, you have reached the depths of social media. If you don’t know what that line means, you have come to the right place. There’s a ...

Many of us have experienced the permanently busy boss. The kind that you glimpse rushing between meeting rooms, carrying an open laptop and looking flustered, or shouting down the phone in the corner ...

When I’m at my wits’ end trying to come up with ways to convince my friends that we should go bar hopping, crash a friend-of-a-friend’s birthday party, or check out the new not-so-secret speakeasy ...