Chapter

No Vanillas, or ‘Cute Happened’

EXCERPT

But all of this only came afterwards. Falling in love brought us into cute/acc’s forcefield, and it crinkled and crumpled and smooshed everything that went before, in a sweet tumble. Ubiquitous cuteness obsolesces macho rhetoric with irresistible positive circulation and diffuse passivity, melting you into its synthetic flows of lipgloss and boymilk, boba and baubles, candy and keratin…