Tag: feminism

Chrissie Hynde Taught Me How to Listen

What do a Midwestern punk queen from Ohio and a Beauty Queen from Chicagoland have in common? How would they intersect in a young man desperately trying to be better? Can combat boots and leather impact high heels and lace? Let’s talk about Chrissie Hynde and Lauren. Before I had a vocabulary for feminism, before…
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July 4, 2025
Sample Chapter of Hearts of Glass & An Open Heart

Hi Readers, I’m back this Friday. Earlier this evening I started writing “Hearts of Glass Fade Away and Radiate”. It is the second book in the Hearts of Glass series and it releases black Friday of this year. To get back into the writing seat I needed inspiration. I got it a few ways. The…
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May 30, 2025
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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May 23, 2025
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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May 16, 2025
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…
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May 9, 2025
Jill Sobule: Social Legacy Far Beyond One Hit

I was scrolling my Insta on May 1st when I saw my favorite human and Go-Go, Jane Weidlin post in grief that it did not feel real. What didn’t feel real? Jill Sobule passed at age 66. I felt the breath escape my lungs and a wave of emotion hit. She’s one of those icons…
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May 6, 2025
Storytelling as Resistance: The Power of Our Words

by Jenny S. You know me as Jenny in Pat’s Fem Friday’s. He’s asked me several times to write and I’ve refused. I’m not a writer. As I wept over my non-binary teenager watching people cheer as our president threatened my child’s existence, I thought about Pat’s book (spoiler alert, I’ve read all four drafts).…
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March 6, 2025
Hearts of Glass Living in the Real World

Hearts of Glass living in the Real World is almost here! It is the first YA novel in the Hearts of Glass series! 3 books and a series of short stories in an expanded universe based on the Fem Fridays we have written about here at Gen X Watch! It is unique and we need…
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February 6, 2025
Prepare to be Assimilated! Resistance is Futile!

What does my grandmother, Star Trek, a deleted X post by Eric Trump and resistance have to do with each other? On May 8th of 1989 Star Trek the Next Generation aired the episode “Q-Who”. In this episode we were introduced to the cybernetic humanoid race known as the Borg. They wanted every race they…
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January 27, 2025
How To Make Social Media Retro

Mark Zuckerburg not only announced that META will end fact checking, but he also baselessly accused the fact checkers of being “too politically biased” and said they “have destroyed more trust than they’ve created, especially in the U.S.” Elon Musk claims to value free speech, but has shown he might even penalize conservatives who disagree…
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January 9, 2025