This week, Jamie dives down the rabbit hole of Lolita blogs and fan communities, beginning in the early 2000s and through now, and a look at the non-sexual nymphet fashion movement that Nabokov's book inspired. It's... complicated.

Ms. Lola on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/MsLola/videos

Lolita in the Afterlife: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/612244/lolita-in-the-afterlife-by-edited-by-jenny-minton-quigley/

Ways of Seeing, E1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pDE4VX_9Kk&t=3s

The Parasocial Phenomenon (Nova): https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/parasocial-relationships/

Grooming: https://www.nspcc.org.uk/what-is-child-abuse/types-of-abuse/grooming/

The Revisionist History of the Nymphet Community (corrected by someone who was actually there) by Nilijah Myeesa: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mytlvx1TepY&t=67s

Why Black Girlhood is Not Valued in the Coquette/Nymphet Community: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWfHhL56g3g

Sarah Kathryn Cleaver on Lolita Tumblr: https://showstudio.com/projects/girly/essay_lolita

When Dolores Haze Gets a Tumblr: Online "Nymphet" Culture and the Reclaiming of Lolita by Mishka Hoosen: https://blog.pshares.org/when-dolores-haze-gets-a-tumblr-online-nymphet-culture-and-the-reclaiming-of-lolita/

Schyler Reign on Non-Sexual Nymphet Fashion:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76k9UWO7_f4&t=307s 

Watch This Before You Get Into Nymphet Fashion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9n7_xVZJUo

Criticism for Nymphet Fashion & The Community: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1OlMdiqCfw&t=8s

Are You a Nymphet? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1j0XFKXlkk&t=1002s

The self-- harmed, visualized and reblogged: Self-iinjury ono Tumblr: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1461444816660783?journalCode=nmsa

Rachel Davis's Lolita Tumblr thesis: https://scholar.utc.edu/honors-theses/94/

Nerdymixedpan on TikTok: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMJGPHvV5/

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