Ella Dorn 唐棠
@elladorn_
🖋️ writer - film culture Chinese etc - online column @newstatesman, words in @i_d, @Spectator, @guardian, + Fairyland! on Substack | repped @CBGBooks
For the @NewStatesman I wrote about my least favourite word "girlhood," Sofia Coppola's Virgin Suicides, the dark voyeuristic afterlife of 2014 Tumblr in today's fashion culture, and my vision of the future: the ballet flat stomping on a human face forever... 🩰

This piece is in this week's Saturday Read. I'm not just an internet historian but a consummate one (have always wanted to be); my editor is consummately nice 🩰
For the @NewStatesman I wrote about my least favourite word "girlhood," Sofia Coppola's Virgin Suicides, the dark voyeuristic afterlife of 2014 Tumblr in today's fashion culture, and my vision of the future: the ballet flat stomping on a human face forever... 🩰
a really interesting column by @elladorn_
For the @NewStatesman I wrote about my least favourite word "girlhood," Sofia Coppola's Virgin Suicides, the dark voyeuristic afterlife of 2014 Tumblr in today's fashion culture, and my vision of the future: the ballet flat stomping on a human face forever... 🩰
For the @NewStatesman I wrote about my least favourite word "girlhood," Sofia Coppola's Virgin Suicides, the dark voyeuristic afterlife of 2014 Tumblr in today's fashion culture, and my vision of the future: the ballet flat stomping on a human face forever... 🩰
For the @NewStatesman I wrote about my least favourite word "girlhood," Sofia Coppola's Virgin Suicides, the dark voyeuristic afterlife of 2014 Tumblr in today's fashion culture, and my vision of the future: the ballet flat stomping on a human face forever... 🩰
Researching this irreparably messed up my precious Pinterest algorithm BTW. No more pictures of aesthetically pleasing pickled onions or scans from wrought iron catalogues on the Internet Archive. Just this on a loop forever
For the @NewStatesman I wrote about my least favourite word "girlhood," Sofia Coppola's Virgin Suicides, the dark voyeuristic afterlife of 2014 Tumblr in today's fashion culture, and my vision of the future: the ballet flat stomping on a human face forever... 🩰
A lot of modern problems can be traced back to society spending the last half-century thinking tech people were the smartest people on the planet and not acknowledging that they’re scammers and full of BS more often than not
It looks like Nietzsche was wrong and Plato was right High powered Ai models are begin to converge on a “hidden realm” of ideals This is very hard for the layman to follow, but think of it this way: If I ask you to look at a tree, and then ask you to imagine a tree - your…
Realllllly beautiful video direction. Very big fan youtu.be/f039iK6UzVM?si…
Elon Musk in a new tweet: “We’re bringing back Vine, but in AI form.”
Elon Musk in a new tweet: “We’re bringing back Vine, but in AI form.”
So much "girl" Substack writing feels like a race to become our generation's Joan Didion, recycling the same cultural touchpoints etc, but Ella Dorn's work is truly unusual and exciting
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On Girlhood: @elladorn_ is so fucking brilliant newstatesman.com/culture/2025/0…
Beware the girlosphere, by @elladorn_ newstatesman.com/culture/2025/0…