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Girl Talk: The Pilot 4 Dec 2011 | 03:18 pm
So. Awkward. But note proto-’90s attempt to deconstruct the lyrics to “Electric Youth.”
There Have So Been Books About Female Sexuality in the Past 35 Years 7 Aug 2011 | 01:45 pm
In a recent piece in The Guardian, “Feminism in the 21st Century,” Zoe Williams claims that no one has talked seriously about female sexuality since the ’70s: “The last person to make any serious nois...
J’Accuse, ’90s Pop Culture, for Making Me Forget the Good Times 31 Jul 2011 | 08:54 am
Here’s a New York Times Magazine Lives piece I wrote about ’90s culture and junior high bullying: “Geekdom Revisited.” And here’s a mortifying page from the unearthed 1990 diary I mention in the piece...
Oh, Those Ladies With Their “Cool, Systematic Ambition.” 28 Jul 2011 | 06:11 am
This Jon Pareles on Taylor Swift review suggests her fans are duped by her “clockwork professionalism,” and keep squealing even though she’s obviously playing them. As if ambition and professionalism ...
Rebecca Traister is So Smart 25 Jul 2011 | 01:19 pm
Her nuanced essay on SlutWalks in today’s New York Times Magazine puts all the “she asked for it” editorializing on recent news stories into perspective. She puts the Walks in context and points out s...
“For the Last Time I Did Not Lose My Virginity to Evan Dando” 19 Jul 2011 | 02:37 am
I just came across this kind of awsome 2006 rant by Juliana Hatfield. An excerpt: I’ve always been kind of proud of the fact that I didn’t succumb to any outside pressure, ever, to indulge in sexual ...
“To Whom It Concerns” by Darlene Connor 16 Jul 2011 | 04:46 am
A great moment in ’90s womanhood. Via TeenageFilm.com.
Start Choppin’ by Dinosaur Jr. 14 Jul 2011 | 04:10 am
This song is inseparable for me from an early-’90s weekend I housesat on East Fifth Street between A and B for Daniel Fidler, who I worked with at SPIN magazine. (I was a 17-year-old intern, he was in...
“I Love Dick” by Chris Kraus 12 Jul 2011 | 02:37 pm
How had I never read this book before? Chris Kraus’s 1997 book I Love Dick is part epistolary novel, part exegesis of itself. It’s basically feminist theory masquerading as a doomed rom-com. The qua...
Craziest YA Book of All Time–OF ALL TIME 24 Jun 2011 | 03:35 am
The 1987 book Fat: a Love Story was recommended to me by my friend Asia. It had somehow eluded my voracious consumption of circa 1990 YA novels. “It’s, uh, pre-Afterschool Specials morality,” Asia sai...
