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PARADISE LOGIC out on @SimonBooks and @ScribnerUK in 2025 ... other writing in the paris review granta pitchfork nymag gq the baffler.

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Sophie Frances Kemp
4 months
every woman's dream is to have a book cover that is adam and eve but the girl is anime and that's why this is mine. PARADISE LOGIC is out March of next year with @SimonBooks and you can pre order it literally rn
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Sophie Frances Kemp
2 years
in the mid 20s liminal space where if u entertain dinner guests half the people r gonna bring a $30 bottle of natural wine and beautiful salad the other half are going to bring themselves and the largest bag of flamin hot cheetos u have ever seen
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Sophie Frances Kemp
2 months
miss being 18 so bad like why on earth did i dress like this at oberlin college in 2015!!!!!!
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Sophie Frances Kemp
3 months
sorry but. look at my apartment.
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Sophie Frances Kemp
3 years
wrote about oberlin this week for class
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Sophie Frances Kemp
4 months
reading werther for the first time it’s pretty remarkable that this book is like 350 years old and that it feels like it was also written last week…i’m goethe pilled sorry
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1 year
just learned about molly baz…truly terrifying individual with a dark and potentially evil aura…unfortunately i will be making her recipes from now on.
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Sophie Frances Kemp
1 year
good morning say it back
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Sophie Frances Kemp
2 years
wow being 26 ur just always like i am god!! i am drunk??? i am ALONE!!! i need a snack! everyone is obsessed with me…everyone hates me!!!! life is amazing …. life is HORRIBLE … i’m crying on the F train to a pavement song??? I AM BEAMING WITH JOY ON THE BEACH !!!
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Sophie Frances Kemp
3 years
i can tell u what the vibe shift is lol its the resurgence of nihilistic anti politics in response to earnest woke culture lmao
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Sophie Frances Kemp
1 year
i reviewed the debut ep by the dare for pitchfork
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Sophie Frances Kemp
2 months
have been saying for years it’s the responsibility of women born in the mid to late nineties to rehabilitate DFW out of the whole basica millennial woman dunking on infinite jest era circa 2015 … miss dua lmk if u want to have a colloquium on this …
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Dua Lipa has a book club and here is her TBR pile at the moment.
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2 years
this isnt a diss btw...i adore a friend who brings a huge bag of cheetos to a dinner party
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Sophie Frances Kemp
2 months
I wrote about having rizz and being a liar and hanging out downtown and talking in a borat voice for the paper of record lol
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Sophie Frances Kemp
10 months
has 2 be one of the best openings to a piece of short fiction ever sorry
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Sophie Frances Kemp
4 years
cant wait for the pandemic to be over so i can go back to parties again where a guy who smells like wet dog can ask me if ive ever "seen the movie synecdoche, new york"
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Sophie Frances Kemp
4 months
got asked to write a short thing about my fav sex scene in a book for angel food so i started writing about the fucking monologue in how should a person be and then ended up just writing about my personal philosophy re: writing sex in fiction
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Sophie Frances Kemp
5 months
note i just found in my phone from last year where i made a list of everything my 3 ex boyfriends turned me on to
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1 year
Millions have been asking: when will Sophie sell her soon to be world famous novel? Well, this very thing has occurred. My crazy little book, PARADISE LOGIC, is out on Simon and Schuster in 2025. I’m so excited lol.
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Sophie Frances Kemp
2 years
i have no idea what "queer joy" is i only know about psychosexual lesbian mindgames
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Sophie Frances Kemp
1 year
do NOT write essays about ur personal life the ensemble cast of your ex boyfriends WILL contact u
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Sophie Frances Kemp
2 years
does this change when you are older please let me know
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We asked more than 60 people, "Is it better to desire, or be desired?"
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Sophie Frances Kemp
4 years
i am wondering if someone has done this yet
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Sophie Frances Kemp
7 years
no more fetishistic music journalism about teen girl artists where point of the article has nothing 2 do w/ craft, everything to do w/ youth
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Sophie Frances Kemp
1 year
muna is music for straight bisexuals .... sorry not interested in elaborating what this means
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Sophie Frances Kemp
5 years
I really do hope my music criticism helps artists bc just imagine if you had to make one of the best sandwiches in the world then travel the country preparing them in-person, and still most of the $$$ comes not from the meal but weird shit you sell after, for your deli to survive
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Sophie Frances Kemp
3 years
U CANT TAKE ME ANYWHERE!!!!!!!!!
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Sophie Frances Kemp
24 days
god lol houllebecq is so racist and lame...truly don't get the appeal...u ppl are idiots..he's not even an interesting sentence writer...its like islamophobic YA lol
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Sophie Frances Kemp
2 years
wrote about an amazing and normal time in my life, which is when i was a diy girlfriend and had bedbugs while working at vogue magazine, for the paris review
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Sophie Frances Kemp
5 years
HAVING READ THEORY IN COLLEGE ISNT A PERSONALITY TRAIT!!!!!!!!! OMFG !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Sophie Frances Kemp
1 year
wrote about having incredible game, asking people out over email, and beautiful women for hometown paper new york magazine
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Sophie Frances Kemp
1 year
everyone has been craving the sophie kemp take on the chloe sale and fortunately for you i wrote about it for the paris review
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Sophie Frances Kemp
2 years
another day in my perfect weirdo flatbush beach house 🌝
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Sophie Frances Kemp
9 months
a month or so after i graduated college, fucking around in the pitchfork fellows cubicle. hard 2 explain but was absolutely my dream job at the time. met my best friend dani there and went to shows 5 nights a week. very beautiful time in my life <3
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Sophie Frances Kemp
1 year
amazing evidence of when i was 20, was obsessed w/ robotripping, did it literally every day. rookiemag yearbook on desk. lived in vegan coop where someone took a shit in a trash can. kept shaving random parts of head. read like 1 novel that year pretty sure it was a little life
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Sophie Frances Kemp
7 months
i went to miu miu for the paris review and asked lorde if she has ever read infinite jest
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Sophie Frances Kemp
4 months
cool pic of me and my dad hanging out on cape cod. crazy mf. taught me how to write really good by editing me like an adult when i was 12 years old. put new order on my ipod when i was also like 12. thats my dad.
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Sophie Frances Kemp
3 years
my bf said he would pay for me to take a notary public class because he wants to tell his friends that he's "putting his girlfriend through school"
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Sophie Frances Kemp
10 months
for the pitchfork sunday review i wrote about one of my most favorite records: playing with a different sex by the british post punk band the au pairs
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Sophie Frances Kemp
3 years
this is what happens when nothing good happens in politics for like two decades and u have all of these people born after 9/11 learning about the movie gummo lmfao
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Sophie Frances Kemp
8 months
it is incredibly easy to make art that is challenging and disturbing and extremely ambitious and not have a persona that is glib about human suffering and racism...really really loved this essay by rachel about elena velez
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Sophie Frances Kemp
28 days
thank you to julian casablancas for speaking with me about various conspiracy theories for i-d and for suggesting i go to malaysia with him
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Sophie Frances Kemp
4 years
this is a lie and also can we talk about the sheer number of people at conde who are hired as permalancers with no benefits?
@CondeNast
Condé Nast
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Consistent with that, we go to great lengths to ensure that employees are paid fairly, in accordance with their roles and experience, across the entire company. We take the well-being of our employees seriously and prioritize a people-first approach to our culture. (2/2)
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Sophie Frances Kemp
6 months
its 2019 ur sophie kemp show up to work hungover listen to PiL smell bad 27k a yr salary to write about emrata's shorts trying to poop in AW's office when shes OOO once got sent home from work by sally singer out of love bc crying at desk due to 1 sided psychosexual relationship
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you wouldn’t last an hour in the asylum where they raised me
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Sophie Frances Kemp
3 years
for my first ever p4k sunday review i wrote about a mysterious LA post punk band from the ‘80s fronted by one of the most magnetic frontwomen of all time
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Sophie Frances Kemp
9 months
babe wake up new sophie frances kemp short fiction about a psychedelic sex retreat, involuntary organ donation, and being chased by someone wielding an axe through the forest is up on granta (granta!)
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Sophie Frances Kemp
3 years
recently tried to explain to a friend what dating at ob*rlin was like and i was like “so the song i want the wind to blow by the microphones is playing and the guy puts his hand on ur knee and is like ‘is this ok?’”
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Sophie Frances Kemp
3 years
only jobs in media with any glamor left are fact checker and war reporter …
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Sophie Frances Kemp
2 months
the miranda july story collection on the floor…the weed bowl…the troll doll knee highs…the gold lipstick..no one was more unwell than me
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Sophie Frances Kemp
3 years
insane life update alert...just committed 2 going to columbia university aka "uptown" to incubate my fucking novel...peace
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Sophie Frances Kemp
6 years
hi here is a photo of @PhizLair at oberlin in the '80s to bless ur timeline this afternoon!!!
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Sophie Frances Kemp
3 years
sophie’s room TM
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trying to get the eternal sunshine of the spotless mind surgery for the sentence "hegalian e girl party"
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Sophie Frances Kemp
11 months
i wrote an essay (???) for the @dirtyverse nightlife zine about performatively going out when u HATE going out
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Sophie Frances Kemp
1 year
remember when the idol came out 1000 years ago? me neither! anyways i wrote a short and weird little essay for paul at LARB about how most of that show was about other people thinking it was bad and...how having violent sex is corny >:- )
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Sophie Frances Kemp
4 years
could u imagine having a bunch of serial abusers on ur record label and then being like ok yes! the solution to this problem is putting the word "girl" in our name now!
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Sophie Frances Kemp
4 years
i reviewed the spectacular new spirit of the beehive record
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Sophie Frances Kemp
11 months
over the summer i went on a "reporting trip" for the paris review to kurt vonnegut's house in alplaus new york, which is a 5 min drive from where i grew up. feat my dad, three unnamed chickens, nxvim, my senior prom and more
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Sophie Frances Kemp
1 year
i stay in on a saturday one time and a darkness so vast and consuming enters my universe … like a weak and tired old man staring at a tornado i accept “the sando life y’all”
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Sophie Frances Kemp
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pitchfork prob the first publication to ever take me seriously as a writer. first place someone ever gave a shit enough about my writing to tell me when it was BAD !! in other words: very much indebted to it for my entire career lol ... godspeed
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Sophie Frances Kemp
2 years
main difference btwn early aughts williamsburg and current day dimes sq is that the music in early aughts wburg was amazing and the music in current day dimes sq like absolutely fucking sucks lmao
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Sophie Frances Kemp
7 months
finally achieving the kind of career success i have always dreamed of
@LordeUpdatesBR
Lorde Updates
7 months
According to Sophie Kemp's Paris Review article, she asked Lorde if she's read 'Infinite Jest', but couldn't quote the rest of the conversation, per Lorde's request. 🤔 🔗
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Sophie Frances Kemp
1 year
DESPITE THE ALLEGATIONS IM A GRADUATE OF GRAD SCHOOL!!!!
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10 months
nothing more intimate than a woman’s raw, unedited copy
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Sophie Frances Kemp
7 years
hello! i have job news. i will be at pitchfork for a lil while as an editorial fellow starting this summer. see u in nyc :) come get drinks and go dance at punk shows w me!! thank u for ur support <3
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Sophie Frances Kemp
3 years
used to be a diy girl and now i am just some chick who goes on the computer
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Sophie Frances Kemp
3 years
why do u think all of those chicks are converting to catholicism and refusing to get vaccinated!!!
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Sophie Frances Kemp
4 months
idk much love to the girls working it out on the remix but also i feel so exhausted by this box we r placing female artists in where they have to be confessional in this corny and overtherapized way to have ppl take their pain seriously.
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Sophie Frances Kemp
1 month
bravely continuing my streak as pitchfork's little miss downtown girl beat reporter
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Sophie Frances Kemp
2 years
had another BIG YEAR for READING!!!!!
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Sophie Frances Kemp
5 years
bradford cox walking in gucci rlly is the last thing u see b4 u die
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Sophie Frances Kemp
6 years
Ok lol I have some personal news. This coming week is my last week at pitchfork...the week after that I’m going to be starting as a news writer and fashion assistant for vogue’s new vertical, vogueworld! thank u for reading this tweet.
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Sophie Frances Kemp
8 months
you actually can make art that pushes the envelope w/o devolving into completely embarrassing racism and brain dead anti politics. don't know why it feels controversial to even say this in this political climate. i really do not respect it at all.
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Sophie Frances Kemp
2 months
sophie summer reading reveal
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Sophie Frances Kemp
5 years
I reviewed the new Cigarettes After Sex record for Pitchfork. Reader, I did not like it.
@pitchfork
Pitchfork
5 years
Cry is a soulless and Styrofoam record
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Sophie Frances Kemp
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i love sally like crazy
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anna wintour’s former assistant plum sykes at the vogue office, 1999
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3 years
do ppl realize that...young women in their twenties also write for pitchfork dot com or are we still doing that thing where we think its all middle aged white guys...jw
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Sophie Frances Kemp
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the thing about living in paris france is that i feel like i am being constantly hazed by everything and everyone around me but also this is what my apartment looks like and it is $400 a month cheaper than what i pay in new york city
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Sophie Frances Kemp
1 year
u ppl have no idea how insane i need the conditions for me to successfully write fiction...im in a cabin in a night gown i have no access to a car im playing a game called "spend zero dollars" which means i can only eat food that is already here (canned asparagus)
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Sophie Frances Kemp
3 years
if u think this joke about oberlin is mean spirited wait till u hear about HBOs GIRLS
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Sophie Frances Kemp
2 years
my sweet reminder that if u ever have a piece of fiction or poetry or a freaky essay plz be in touch i’m editing the columbia journal and i want it to be AMAZING
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Sophie Frances Kemp
10 months
always getting advice from my girls to try "going dark" (not posting) for personal and social gain (cultivate an air of mystery). sorry but no thanks. i'd rather make my third tweet in 24 hours about 10:04 by ben lerner.
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Sophie Frances Kemp
2 years
wrote about why everyone is becoming a little analysis freak for @dirtyverse
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Sophie Frances Kemp
2 years
god the women you put on this earth to bake a cake are turning in auto fiction for workshop tomorrow
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Sophie Frances Kemp
1 year
bob was my first ever boss in media :-) hard 2 say boss tho because he really just wanted to hang out and make ice cream w/ crushed kind bars as a topping and ask u if u could invite him to see ur friend's band play. legend!!!!!!!!
@totalvibration
Lars Gotrich 🍷🌊
1 year
Bob Boilen, after 35 years, will retire from NPR on Oct. 2. I will have more to say soon — probably even on the All Songs Considered podcast, which I'm taping with Bob on Friday if I can get through it without 😭 — but without Bob, there's no Tiny Desk, no NPR Music.
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me when a french person asks if im from quebec
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Sophie Frances Kemp
3 months
amazing time to be a woman and out of a crazy housing situation and now living in a Normal One
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Sophie Frances Kemp
8 years
reminder that the DIY community is full of dudes that abuse women/gnc + nb ppl. If u aren't working to make ur venues predator free then bye
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Sophie Frances Kemp
3 years
fall fashion alert!!!!!
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Sophie Frances Kemp
1 year
feeling obligated to post that i am not a gen xer man but instead a beautiful young woman
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Sophie Frances Kemp
4 years
thinking fondly of the time an ex boyfriend and i were fighting and he goes "you just come over wearing your outfits!"
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Sophie Frances Kemp
3 months
more writing from me today <3 had so much fun eating eggs with Claire for the cover of Crack this month.
@CrackMagazine
Crack Magazine
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Clairo is mining a deeper, inner well of interpersonal love and sonic confidence for her latest album ✨ @clairo covers issue 157 of @crackmagazine Read the cover interview now:
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Sophie Frances Kemp
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love being bisexual. real worst of both worlds situation. no one looks at me and thinks i look straight and also i smell crazy all the time and am pretty sure i have beef with several prominent lesbians.
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Sophie Frances Kemp
1 year
psa for people who love to dance: some friends bought molly in brooklyn this week that tested positive for fentanyl. test strips literally save lives!! stay safe out there <3
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Sophie Frances Kemp
4 years
after a beaautiful year of working at garage i'm sad to say my last day is in a few weeks. would be insanely grateful for any opportunities of any nature. proud of my coworkers and everything we did/are doing together <3
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