This timely collection of essays helps us make sense of our collective pop-culture past even as it points the way toward a joyous, uproarious, near-and very queer-future. Girls Can Kiss Now is a fresh and intoxicating blend of personal stories, sharp observations, and laugh-out-loud humor. If your head is just as upright as her, youll bump your nose into her nose instead of your lips into her lips. Make sure you close your eyes right before you start the kiss. Dusting off her own personal traumas and artifacts of her not-so-distant youth she examines how pop culture acts as a fun house mirror reflecting and refracting our values-always teaching, distracting, disappointing, and revealing us. I Kissed a Girl is the debut single of American singer Katy Perry from her second studio album, One of the Boys (2008). Dont use tongue the first time you kiss a girl. In these honest examinations of identity, desire, and self-worth, Jill explores perhaps the most monumental cultural shift of our lifetimes: the mainstreaming of lesbian culture. And of course, the pivotal day when Orange Is the New Black hit the airwaves and broke down the door to Jill’s own sexuality. The pop songs that have been the soundtrack to the worst moments of her life. There’s the time the FBI showed up at her door because of something she tweeted about Game of Thrones. Jill Gutowitz’s life-for better and worse-has always been on a collision course with pop culture. O rare, rare creature By the power that made me, Wer't possible. Perfect for fans of Samantha Irby and Trick Mirror, a funny, whip-smart collection of personal essays exploring the intersection of queerness, relationships, pop culture, the internet, and identity, introducing one of the most undeniably original new voices today. “Wickedly funny and heartstoppingly vulnerable…every page twinkles with brilliance.” -Refinery29 Named One of the Most Anticipated Books of 2022 by Vogue, BuzzFeed, Bustle, Marie Claire, Harper’s Bazaar, Electric Lit, Thrillist, Glamour, CNN, and Shondaland
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