Serena Smith

@serenathesmith

deputy editor @dazed [email protected] / [email protected]

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Serena Smith@serenathesmith · Mar 24, 2023

for anyone who is interested: we now have a guide to pitching dazed digital on the site! dazeddigital.com/info/article/5…

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Serena Smith@serenathesmith · Mar 27

the rich have always loved keeping it in the family 😌 dazeddigital.com/film-tv/articl…

serenathesmith's tweet card. The incest storyline on The White Lotus isn’t just for shock value – it’s a damning indictment of the way wealth and status remains concentrated among the one per cent

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Serena Smith@serenathesmith · Jul 22

wrote about how mad the 'bare minimum v princess treatment' trend is x dazeddigital.com/life-culture/a…

serenathesmith's tweet card. A new TikTok trend has sparked discussions about what constitutes ‘the bare minimum’ in straight relationships — and exposed how insane our standards have become

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Serena Smith@serenathesmith · Jul 15

Spoke to a bunch of young people about their hopes for Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana's new party: dazeddigital.com/life-culture/a…

serenathesmith's tweet card. Earlier this month, Zarah Sultana and Jeremy Corbyn revealed their intentions to form a new progressive party. The news is a rare glimmer of hope in a bleak political landscape

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Serena Smith@serenathesmith · Jul 9

wrote about generative AI's impact on higher education: dazeddigital.com/life-culture/a…

serenathesmith's tweet card. More than half of students now use generative AI to help with their assessments – but experts are warning that overrelying on technology can stunt critical thinking, memory and language skills

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night gardener@uncanny_eli · Jul 8

Those who wish to counter the power of the manosphere, and to save both men and women from 'toxic masculinity', tend to extol the unimpeachable virtues of its opposite - 'positive masculinity'. But is positive masculinity really the answer? dazeddigital.com/life-culture/a…

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Serena Smith@serenathesmith · May 22

Spoke to three US students who are hunger striking for Palestine: dazeddigital.com/life-culture/a…

serenathesmith's tweet card. Students from universities including Yale, Stanford and UCLA have been refusing to eat in solidarity with Palestinians at risk of starvation in Gaza

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Serena Smith@serenathesmith · May 20

wrote about why everyone seems to want an exceptionally tall man nowadays dazeddigital.com/beauty/article…

serenathesmith's tweet card. Many women on dating apps claim they’re exclusively interested in men over 6ft tall. When did our expectations get so lofty?

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Serena Smith@serenathesmith · May 14

if anyone is still on here: quick note to say that I'm out of budget and not commissioning for the next few weeks! please save all your amazing pitches for June!!!

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Serena Smith@serenathesmith · May 9

I wrote about involuntarily celibate young women dazeddigital.com/life-culture/a…

serenathesmith's tweet card. Inceldom is often thought of as a male problem – but legions of women feel barred from the dating pool against their will too

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Serena Smith@serenathesmith · Apr 28

looking to speak to women who have experienced repeated romantic/sexual rejection - DMs open #journorequest #journorequests

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Fleurine@ByFleurine · Apr 4

Thank you @serenathesmith for commissioning my first piece for DAZED!! One person can't fill all your needs, nor should they!! That's why we have besties, therapists, colleagues, and ahem vibrational support dazeddigital.com/life-culture/a…

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halima@halimaajibril · Apr 2

for dazed beauty, i wrote about relationships, the ways we perform in them, and our horrible fixation on appearance <3 dazeddigital.com/beauty/article…

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halima@halimaajibril · Mar 27

#journorequest i'd love to speak to young people who have rejected their offers to universities or are considering it in solidarity with Palestine! please get in contact with me - this is for a @dazed feature x

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Serena Smith@serenathesmith · Mar 26

Thought Adolescence was good overall but didn't love the way it let social media companies off the hook - wrote about it here: dazeddigital.com/film-tv/articl…

serenathesmith's tweet card. The four-part Netflix series correctly identifies social media as a catalyst for misogyny among young men – but fails to recognise that tech companies could be doing so much more

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limp brittzkit@Brittymigs · Mar 24

how it feels to be a beautiful woman forced to work on a monday

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TThe i Paper@theipaper · Mar 24

Tuesday's front page: Future of state pension triple lock questioned by Labour MPs #Tomorrowspaperstoday Latest by @Kitty_Donaldson: trib.al/wboolQX

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night gardener@uncanny_eli · Mar 24

interview drop: i talked to sophie lewis @reproutopia about enemy feminisms, the war over feminist 'control', and the pleasures of doing feminism badly dazeddigital.com/life-culture/a…

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Róisín Lanigan@rosielanners · Mar 19

book in world tomorrow, book in dazed today :) dazeddigital.com/life-culture/a…

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Magdalene J. Taylor@magdajtaylor · Mar 14

I have a fun scene report in @Dazed on @camillepejcha's & S*bst*ck's bathhouse reading this week. dazeddigital.com/life-culture/a…

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Serena Smith@serenathesmith · Mar 13

presented without comment dazeddigital.com/life-culture/a…

serenathesmith's tweet card. The overwhelming majority of straight women agree that men who enjoy reading are attractive – but what is it about ‘book boyfriends’ that makes them so hot?

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