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Hope everyone had joyful holiday season. I spent time back home in California with my family and it was as relaxing as life with a 2-year-old could possibly be.

In my last update, I said that I wanted to figure out how to revive Side Chat in a way that adds value for you, the reader. I’m excited to share that Side Chat will not only be returning in 2025, but it will be better than ever.

Side Chat will now be a biweekly newsletter, published every other Friday. In it, you’ll get the high-brow analysis of pop and internet culture that you love, plus the stories I’m obsessed with, recaps of my writing at Glamour, and anything else I am into or find interesting.

In addition, paid subscribers will receive a monthly additional newsletter called Real Talk, which will hit your inboxes the third Thursday of each month. This newsletter will be more unfiltered, and I’ll go deep on a topic or news item that I can’t stop thinking about. It will also include a subscriber-only chat so we all can dis…