Another brat essay and it’s the same, but this one is about grief so it’s not. unpacks BRAT by Charli XCX as more than an album—it’s a cultural touchstone for millennial women and femmes navigating the bittersweet ache of grief and loss. Throughout a 14-page essay, this zine explores how Brat becomes a soundtrack for mourning not just people but eras—the carefree, messy indiesleaze nights that came and went without documentation and the pre-COVID world forever lost to collective death and trauma.