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A Firsthand Account

Chelsea Handegan
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Latest Issues

The Authenticity Machine

This one has been sitting in the drafts for some time, but in the wake of Substack’s addition of an AI-transparency tool, the post felt ripe for release. Humor me for another soapbox moment.

(It’s worth mentioning that I ran a dozen posts...

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Out East (twice)

Nantucket & The Hamptons, head-to-head

I started writing a Nantucket recap from our June trip and hit a wall. The problem was not that I had nothing to say. I just didn’t have an argument. (I love an argument.)

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Out West

living well and dressing without cosplay

I am writing this from Nantucket, which is another matter entirely and more on that later, but the contrast is useful. Out East, I know the codes. Out West, I’m a greenhorn.

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Everything I Loved in May

May was full and slightly disorienting in that I looked up and realized I was moving through life almost entirely by calendar alert. There was travel, work, new projects, years-long project installations, and end-of-school-year miscellany,...

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On Layering: Bathrooms

and how I accidentally became impossible to shop for

Unfortunately I have made my own personality online so psychotically legible that even ChatGPT told my husband not to buy me decorative objects. For Mother’s Day, my husband informed me...

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