Dena Silver

@heyalexfriedman I’m so sorry for your loss and so devastated by this story. I went to college with Erika and she was such a light, loving person 💖

A year ago today my best friend Erika sent me and our other best friend this text message. At the time we didn’t realize this moment would change our lives forever and 11 months later she would be gone. She was 31 years old and 34 weeks pregnant when diagnosed with stage 4 Pancreatic Cancer. I remember this moment vividly. I was sitting on my phone watching TikTok after I had just posted a video. A minute before I was blissfully unaware of the complete shit show life would become. I didn’t understand at first. I’ve never known anyone with cancer. When Erika told us, I thought it wasn’t a big deal. I thought it was something she could “just get scraped out”. The few days that followed included me not eating or sleeping, sitting on the edge of my bed as I called in every favor I could to get Erika into a top hospital as she waited to be induced to give birth so they could start chemo immediately. I took on the roll of being the messenger for our college friend group. I started a GoFundMe. I begged people for help on Twitter. I’ve never been so desperate for help and answers in my life. Life is much more fragile than anyone wants to realize. Within moments Erika, and everyone who loves her, lives completely changed. A month since she’s passed and I miss her non stop. Not a second goes by that I don’t think about her. Even the way I exist in the world is completely different now. I know that she’d want me to use my platform to bring awareness to pancreatic cancer, especially the way that many families still have a lack of answers and resources post-diagnosis. I hope to continue to do that. 💜

The devil works fast but damn whitelisted ads on Instagram work a whole lot faster.

@johnjannuzzi Praiano is down the street from Positano and 100000x less crowded. Absolutely stunning too

@QianJulieWang I once had a man follow me throughout a packed subway car. A woman must’ve seen it bc she walked up to me, briefly made eye contact and then stood directly in front of me, blocking the creepy dude. Without saying a word she protected me.

working on a piece for NYT & i would love to hear about your experiences: what do you think of when you think of the NYC subway? what are some of your worst & best subway memories?

@eiffeltyler Like I have considered learning Italian so I could understand Fedez’s ig stories…

@eiffeltyler Honestly same

If you don’t listen to the soundtrack from The OC at least once a week, what are you doing?

Everyone: Maybe it’s time to replace Anna Wintour. Condé Nast: No ❤️

Yeah, I'm Doing Great !!

A Jewish teaching says those who die just before the Jewish new year are the ones God has held back until the last moment bc they were needed most & were the most righteous. And so it was that #RBG died as the sun was setting last night marking the beginning of RoshHashanah

Tmrw 9/16 📣 @deenersilver, Fashion Director at @PureWow, takes over our Instagram for a live chat with model, DJ & activist @SherPieksma on #microplastics in #fashion. We’ll be live on Instagram at 12PM EST / 6PM CET! Join the conversation: instagram.com/oceanic.global

Thank you @deenersilver 🥰 "What if you could get a set of plush Parachute sheets for a fraction of the listed price—without losing any of the softness they're known for? Or a Prada-quality bag, for a little under $200? ... It’s a total dream come true." purewow.com/home/italic-si…

Words I refuse to pronounce correctly: - Vlog (it’s v-log don’t @ me) - Biopic (it’s not bio pic)

#BREONNATAYLOR is no longer trending. Her killers have still not been arrested. It’s been THREE MONTHS. DO NOT FORGET HER

@eiffeltyler Nope!!

This is such a common mythology spewed by transphobes. Trans people are not an ideological collective trying to erase the idea of biological sex. Trans people are 0.6% of the population whose gender identity doesn’t match to their assigned sex, and they are just trying to live.

Seven Fucked Up Days in American History, As Told By @NYTimes Front Pages. A Thread:

Can we stop calling it “police brutality” it’s murder, M-U-R-D-E-R

That NYT front page names only 1% of the Americans who have died from Covid-19. I found that a bit difficult to grasp, so I copy/pasted it 100 times to get a sense of scale. The first image below is what it would look like if you could see all 100,000 names.