You know how your bedroom is so much more than a bedroom? Think about it: in addition to being a place to sleep, it's also a sacred space, an oasis from the rest of the world, an office, a studio, a home gym—you name it. To wit: welcome to In My Room, a new weekly series in which one of our favorite digital artists,Molly Soda, dissects various aspects of teen bedroom culture. 

This week's debut episode of In My Room is all about that one crucial topic that holds sway over the majority of your adolescence: control. After all, your bedroom is pretty much the first place where you can exercise control, right? Well, it turns out that teenagers having their own bedrooms is just as much an exercise in parental control as it is in teenage self-determination...

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