The year 2024 will long be remembered in pop culture as the year of #bratsummer , christened, of course, by the early-June release of an instantly-iconic pop album, Charli XCX’s Brat . It was the cultural equivalent of the hippies’ summer of love in 1967, but for the girls and gays — a singular moment in time where every day offered the chance of a kiki and every night flirted with throwing a rave.

Girl-code was the law of the land and straight men were the ultimate party foul. We went to the bathroom in packs, where the poppers flowed like milk & honey. We painted our nails neon matcha-green . And we danced. Oh, how we danced.

But in 2025, a reactionary conservative culture war has delivered us the backlash to #bratsummer, seemingly its antithesis. The most influential trend in ar

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