Published 7th February 2021 by The Indiependent.
Love Letters To My 20s: A Fortnightly Column On The Stigma Surrounding Our Twenties.
“What’s Galentine’s Day? Oh, it’s only the best day of the year! Every February 13th, my lady friends and I leave our husbands and our boyfriends at home and we just come and kick it, breakfast-style. Ladies celebrating ladies. It’s like Lilith Fair, minus the angst. Plus, frittatas!” – Leslie Knope, Parks & Recreation.
There are a lot of reasons that I frequently ask myself “What would Leslie Knope do?”, but her invention of Galentine’s Day in 2010 surely leads the charge. Today marks a week until the ‘proper’ A.K.A the substantially worse holiday (Valentine’s), which means that I have begun the six day countdown to what is, I’m sure you’ll agree, a twenty-something’s Christmas…