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Girls Can Kiss Now
Girls Can Kiss Now: Essays | Jill Gutowitz
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Named One of the Most Anticipated Books of 2022 by Vogue, BuzzFeed, Bustle, Marie Claire, Harpers Bazaar, Electric Lit, Thrillist, and Glamour Wickedly funny and heartstoppingly vulnerableevery page twinkles with brilliance. Refinery29 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. Jill Gutowitzs lifefor better and worsehas always been on a collision course with pop culture. Theres the time the FBI showed up at her door because of something she tweeted about Game of Thrones. The pop songs that have been the soundtrack to the worst moments of her life. And of course, the pivotal day when Orange Is the New Black hit the airwaves and broke down the door to Jills own sexuality. 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. 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 valuesalways teaching, distracting, disappointing, and revealing us. Girls Can Kiss Now is a fresh and intoxicating blend of personal stories, sharp observations, and laugh-out-loud humor. 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, nearand very queerfuture.
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BookishTrish
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I like memoirs and pop culture obsessed folks. Despite being too damn old to get all the references, I really liked this book of essays.

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Hooked_on_books
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This essay collection is great. It‘s more or less Jill‘s coming of age as a lesbian, told with great humor but also not shying away from exploring things like internalized misogyny and homophobia. It is fervently pro-lesbian in the best way. She has a great voice, though she does make me feel old (I relate far more to her “older woman” pop culture references than the ones she relates to).

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I‘m pretty sure this is the best essay title ever. (I can feel the pearl clutching happening already! 😈)

GingerAntics 🤣😂🤣 2y
shanaqui This sounds fun. XD 2y
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Soubhiville
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Part memoir part history of “celesbians “, this is the author‘s take on society‘s view of queer women.

I am easily a decade older than the author and pretty out of touch with pop culture, so I admit I don‘t know a lot of the celebrities discussed here. That took a bit away from the book for me. But there was still plenty I did enjoy.

Some content may be triggering- see spoilers below.

Soubhiville CW- sexual assault- graphic. 3y
Megabooks This sounds interesting! 3y
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WanderingBookaneer
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I was expecting snarky pop culture and was instead captivated by a candid, at times heartbreaking, memoir whose threads were woven throughout with iconic moments in Sapphic* pop culture.

*or moments that we perceived as Sapphic.

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wanderinglynn 🤣🤣🤣 3y
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