For transparency, this is what I look like. Sort of.

Lauren is a freelance writer, editor, and completer of miscellaneous tasks based in Berlin, Germany. She got her Bachelor’s degree in English from Yale University, her general disdain from growing up in West Virginia, and her social media savvy from a strong desire to leave both places. Besides strippers, marijuana, and untimely death, her interests include oatmeal, feminism, indie folk, contemporary Britain, classifications for her generation other than “twentysomethings,” modern art, and complaining. Her work has appeared in or on Gawker, Salon.com, Jezebel, the Huffington Post, and, somewhat incongruously, Luxury Travel Australia.