Photo Source: Netflix In the video essay below, Twenty-two Twenty-eight founder and president Jennifer Barnick reviews Lena Dunham's latest TV Series, "Too Much", discussing her thoughts on the series, the criticism surrounding it, and the nature of personal evolution as a creator and as a person. Jennifer Barnick is a painter and writer. She studied painting at the San Francisco Art Institute. She founded Twenty-two Twenty-eight. “One of the most exciting aspects of Twenty-two Twenty-eight...

Photo Source: Piqsels How often have we faced a crisis, whether it be an illness, a romantic breakup, or a job loss, only to feel frustrated by our friends and family telling us that we're going to be fine , look on the bright side , or everything happens for a reason ? Or, how often have we tried to talk ourselves out of feeling sad, angry, worried, or scared? The truth is that it is very common that loved ones do try to talk us out of our genuine feelings; additionally, we also try to...

Photo Source: Wikimedia Commons “Naomi Wolf’s 1991 book The Beauty Myth claims that efforts to be thin and pretty undermine women. But one of the biggest myths about the beauty myth is that it’s female. Boys suffer from unrealistic beauty standards, too, and the problem starts early.” —Cara Natterson, pediatrician, author of the New York Times article The Beauty Myth for Boys, Dec. 3, 2019 We have, on the whole, been leaning towards lifting the burden of toxic beauty standards from...