One Cent Record Clubs and Predatory Discovery
What’s the value of music when your life is falling apart? How did that “ten…
Em Dashes and Witch Hunts With New Literary Inquisitors
It’s 2025, and I find myself caught in an ironic 21st-century witch hunt. Only this…
Love My Way: The Psychedelic Furs and the Marimba That Woke Me Up
What if one song could tell you it was okay to exist exactly as you…
When Free Speech Fought Back in 1985
Are we safe if a comedian does not have free speech? Were we safe when…
Pee Wee Herman: Lessons From a Manchild
By Rachael Price Nowadays, one does not usually understand the term “manchild” to be a…
Chrissie Hynde Taught Me How to Listen
What do a Midwestern punk queen from Ohio and a Beauty Queen from Chicagoland have…
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Gloria Estefan Taught Us How to Come Out of the Dark
Gloria Estefan is a Fem Friday icon. I’ve got Pat Green to thank for helping me remember just how iconic she really is. I asked him if he had ever considered writing about her. He said he had a rough draft and notes on her-as well as other women from the 80s. I asked him…
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Not Your Stepford Sister: How to Be Fem Friday Hero
All women are in danger right now. Our rights, the ones we have left, are under attack. Our bodies are being legislated. Our stories are being erased from history, and government websites like NASA. Whether you’re a white straight women in Boston, trans woman in Florida, a Black mom in Illinois, a disabled activist in…
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Ready to Rage? The Great Fem Friday Takeover
Hi! My name is Heather and I will be running Gen X Watch until the end of June. I have exactly one fond memory of the 1980s: the weekend Pat Green saved my life. Everything else about that decade can burn for all I care. Gen X nostalgia? Hard pass. I’m not here to romanticize…