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Welcome to Generation Overshare: Lena Dunham, Taylor Swift, and the Politics of Self-Disclosure

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Lena Dunham has been (crazily) accused of “sexual abuse” by right-wing troll sites for a passage in her memoir. But the real issues at hand are oversharing and commodification.

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Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art. Those words, uttered by none other than ex-President Harry Truman, sprung to mind in the wake of the latest—and most malicious, and deeply troubling—series of attacks on media punching bag Lena

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