Melanie Hamlett

  These photos and videos are all over the place cuz this website kinda sucks and makes it super hard to move stuff around. Oh well! St Tropez is this disturbing little town on the French Riviera full of the grossest display of income quality ever. Beyonce and Brad Pitt’s yacht’s where there that week…

Tonight was magic. I think I educated nearly 60,000 people about title IV. Only women, people of color, minorités, and fathers (of daughters) knew what the hell this sign meant but the rest had never even HEARD of title IX. I hope other countries will perhaps be inspired to apply title 9 type policies towards…

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Friday was fête de la musique, which is basically a day the whole country parties to music Which included this old man being all rocky balboa. Then there was this festival the next day that had tenchno music and great dancing. But before that started, they had this bizarre protest-like cat walk where they hit…

It was a really hard choice and I’m grateful to be in a position to chose instead of waiting to be chosen finally. Cheers to a new chapter in my career and the closest I may ever come to a marriage-type relationship lol. I’m now represented by: JL Stermer at New Leaf Literary Agency

When this song came on, all the French folks around me dropped to the ground and started passing each other over their heads. Like, the guys I was with dropped their drinks to rush and do this. It’s Some tradition here in southern France that happens with this song and one other song come on…

I was asked to do an interview for this podcast and it’s one of my best ever. They were like “hey we interview Nobel prize winners and former presidents of countries and we want to interview you for your Harper’s Bazaar piece” and I was like well that doesn’t make sense but OKAY. Click here…

I went to this farm party this weekend. I got to learn how to play these giant drums, ate a 4 course homemade meal (from local farms) and listened to three concerts. If I wasn’t dogsitting this weekend, I would have slept under the stars too with the rest of them. This was truly a…

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    Link here for the story. My story starts at around 22 minutes but listen to the whole thing if you have time! It’s about how toxic masculinity appears in tomboys like me and how a bunch of teenage boys taught me how to overcome it on the most bonkers backpacking course ever. If…

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  I wrote this after my cougar piece for Glamour became tabloid news