Ella Emhoff, step-daughter of Kamala Harris, has been on SSRIs for 15 years, and she has some questions.

"I don't know if this is something that I feel like is being talked about enough."

She seems to have been on these drugs since she was about 12, and Kamala Harris has been her stepmother since 2014. I would assume she has had access all her life to the very best medical care, and yet look at her. She seems lost, trapped inside of a drug experience that she never competently chose for herself and unable to test what lies on the other side of a disturbing withdrawal experience. She responds to commenters who push her to give up the drugs with lines like "y'all… I will not be getting off my meds."

Here's the original video, without the doctor's contribution:

Ella Emhoff, the style icon.

I totally approve. The best of the inauguration (Daily Mail).

So grimly fun and playfully in-your-face. I feel resonance with the old hippie movement.

Emhoff is a design student at Parsons so it must be presumed that this is all quite intentional, not just something she geekily stumbled into. Ah, yes:

Speaking to Vogue, Ella, who is in her final year at the Parsons School of Design in New York, explained how she had the bespoke look made. 'My mood board was very “little girl,” in a sense, a lot of scalloped collars and big silhouette shoulders and small buttons. 'I was going for something girlier, to embrace my feminine side — especially after that suit that I felt so great in — because, like, how many times do you prepare yourself to attend an inauguration? This momentous of an event deserves a momentous outfit,' she said.

She's studying textiles, specifically knitwear, and wants to have her own knitwear business. Great! I wish her big success.

Here's her Instagram page, for lots more pictures. 

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