Learning to DJ and fending off creeps in the name of fame that looks accidental.
.) But I spent my teenage years and early 20s among the young women being photographed by the right photographers at the right parties. I had a close-up view of the mechanics of what looked like effortless, accidental fame., and Leigh Lezark and Cory Kennedy were in blogs and then the culture pages of newspapers. Back then, there was a certain path for teenage girls who grew up in the major cities where being christened an It Girl was in the realm of possibility.
Three weeks after I turned 18, I took the street smarts I had accrued and moved to London. PR dinners and events were foisted on me, and of course I went to consume whatever complimentary food and drink was on offer. I got into DJing — every Party Girl had a DJ phase because it married two of our passions: music you could dance to and free drinks.
Every Party Girl had a DJ phase because it married two of our passions: music you could dance to and free drinks. Once I was out of the circuit, I felt relieved. I could quietly hone and incubate ideas without feeling like I was missing out on something. It paved the way for an artistic journey on my own terms. Often, I’ve wondered how much of people’s growing impatience with me had to do with the fact that I am non-white and non-monied. “Skinny, rich white girls can act irresponsibly, and it’s seen as ‘flitting around whimsically,’” Gleason and Fearnley write.
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