Loud & Annotated by Aparajita Vaid

I am the person at the party who connects the viral influencer scandal to platform capitalism and somehow also has thoughts about that season's Sabyasachi collection. This is my publication. You were warned.

Launched 2 months ago

If Only She'd Lose the Weight
dinner table comments, kitty party jokes, the BBL era, and the precise size at which this culture decides a woman becomes worthy of her own potential.
Jun 12 • Aparajita Vaid

Fair Enough: How Indian Beauty Got a New Face, and Who Still Doesn't Have One
Indian skincare culture has never been more visible or more carefully curated. The question is who built the mirror and who it was built to reflect.
Jun 4 • Aparajita Vaid

The Algorithm Knows I’m Sad
What it means to be known by something that cannot actually know you.
May 11 • Aparajita Vaid

Cancel Me, Love Me: The Gendered Politics of Public Redemption
who gets forgiven, who gets finished, and why the answer almost always has something to do with gender.
May 8 • Aparajita Vaid

Ambition Is a Lonely Girl
wanting too many lives at once, and the strange silence that lives between where you are and where you are trying to go.
May 6 • Aparajita Vaid

The Performance of Having It Together
On curated selfhoods, exhausted twentysomethings, and the quiet cost of looking like you're fine.
May 5 • Aparajita Vaid

Loud & Annotated by Aparajita Vaid