Girls Can Kiss Now: Essays
- Author: Jill Gutowitz
- Narrator: Jill Gutowitz
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster
- Duration: 7:04:21
Synopsis
Named One of the Most Anticipated Books of 2022 by Vogue, BuzzFeed, Bustle, Marie Claire, Harper’s Bazaar, Electric Lit, Thrillist, and Glamour
“Wickedly funny and heartstoppingly vulnerable…every 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 Gutowitz’s life—for better and worse—has always been on a collision course with pop culture. There’s 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 Jill’s 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 values—always 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, near—and very queer—future.
Chapters
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001 GirlsCanKissNow Open
Duration: 13s -
002 GirlsCanKissNow Dedication
Duration: 08s -
003 GirlsCanKissNow Introduction The Five Eras of Celesbianism
Duration: 25min -
004 GirlsCanKissNow One Memeing With the FBI
Duration: 39min -
005 GirlsCanKissNow Two Im a Famous Actress MOM
Duration: 30min -
006 GirlsCanKissNow Three One Day Youll All Be Gay
Duration: 47min -
007 GirlsCanKissNow Four The Ten Most Important Sapphic Paparazzi Photos
Duration: 13min -
008 GirlsCanKissNow Five A Supercut of Lesbian Yearning
Duration: 42min -
009 GirlsCanKissNow Six Kill the Creator of Entourage in Your Head
Duration: 41min -
010 GirlsCanKissNow Seven A Britney Spears Blackout
Duration: 11min -
011 GirlsCanKissNow Eight Crush Me at the Forum
Duration: 22min -
012 GirlsCanKissNow Nine Step on Me, Julianne Moore
Duration: 18min -
013 GirlsCanKissNow Ten I Know This Now
Duration: 33min -
014 GirlsCanKissNow Eleven Kiss Me, Murder Me in the Woods
Duration: 19min -
015 GirlsCanKissNow Twelve The Current Lesbian Canon, as It Stands
Duration: 13min -
016 GirlsCanKissNow Thirteen Clueless at Chateau Marmont
Duration: 33min -
017 GirlsCanKissNow Fourteen The Beast
Duration: 22min -
018 GirlsCanKissNow Acknowledgments
Duration: 05min -
019 GirlsCanKissNow Close
Duration: 36s