Feminist Firsts
Taking us back to her prep school days, Miranda July reveals her first feminist action and the fallout.“I didn’t have a plan beyond this moment. I wasn’t sure anyone would even get it—who and what I...
View Article“so I took a deep breath and I jumped”
Roxane Gay isn’t just for adults.Rookie Mag’s online issue, currently themed “Age of Innocence,” just posted the new(ish — the original was published in Prairie Schooner) beautiful story on teenage...
View ArticleThe Juvenilia + Rookie: Exhibition and Pop-Up Shop in LA (8/9-8/11)
Six years ago, the photography website Flickr allowed a community of young photographers around the world to discover one another’s work. One such friendship developed between Nolan Boomer, editor of...
View Article“It’s Always Condescending and Insulting”
At Rookie, wunderkind Tavi Gevinson’s website for teenage girls, Hazel Cills has a magnificent defense of teenage girls’ taste, which explains why adult male critics are the last people who should be...
View ArticleMaking Real People into Fiction
If you have a story that you want to tell, but you’re afraid that someone in your life is going to feel wounded, whether that feeling is justified or not, fair or not, tell it anyway.For Rookie, author...
View ArticleWriting the Story of Your Life
Keeping a diary requires strong commitment and great honesty, and Zadie Smith has struggled with the idea of journaling all through her life, as she writes in her latest essay, “Life Writing,” over at...
View ArticleAdvice from Sleater-Kinney
Being the reigning curators of all things empowering and sweet that they are, the people at Rookie got Sleater-Kinney’s Carrie Brownstein and Corin Tucker to act as guest advice gurus on the magazine’s...
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The Rumpus Interview with Amy Rose Spiegel
When speaking with Amy Rose Spiegel, two things become immediately apparent: she is whip-smart, able to perfectly synthesize the sociological and physiological constraints of sexual politics into a...
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This Week in Trumplandia
Welcome to This Week in Trumplandia. Check in with us every Thursday for a weekly roundup of the most pertinent and relevant content on our country, which is currently spiraling down a crappy toilet...
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Just Chaste Me
Beverly Hills, 90210 taught me how to have sex. In the penultimate episode of the first season, back in 1991, Brenda Walsh (Shannon Doherty), the seventeen-year-old female lead, lost her virginity to...
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