on rich white girls writing poverty porn

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trigger warning: this article contains brief mentions of rape and drug abuse in reference to the plot of nicola peltz beckham’s utter shit show of a debut film.

cigarette smoke and pastel colored bedrooms. mascara running down perfectly symmetrical white faces. tortured women in tiny thongs and mussed hair. we know the signs before we can pin down the story; the sexy, poor, sad white girl has been a staple of our lives since we’ve been consuming art.

these were the images that cropped up to the top of our tumblr feeds, along with lana del rey lyrics and pictures of alexa chung pulling a silly face. they are images, it seems, that nicola peltz-beckham saw too. any still from ‘lola’- her directorial debut- fits seamlessly into this curated aesthetic of suffering while sexy.