November 1988 Teen Life: Sick Moms, Fighting Sisters & Virgins

Sep 07, 2021, 09:00 AM

Sassy is, of course, very proud of the work they did in their first few issues -- describing what readers' first sexual experiences might be like, demystifying boys' bodies, profiling out queer couples, and so on. But apparently the hate mail we read in the October issue was just a tiny fraction of what they received, or so we must surmise given November's lead feature: "Virgins Are Cool"! The issue then wends its way through how to land very cool jobs; what life is like for sisters who just cannot get along; a trip to Portland, Maine; and not one but two pieces about living with a mother who is ill. All this and much more: we hope you'll be thankful for our first episode on the November 1988 issue!

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TOPICS

๐ŸŽง It Is November 1988

๐ŸŽง In Our Lives + Spine Line

๐ŸŽง Feature: Virgins Are Cool

๐ŸŽง Feature: Terrorizing Your Sister

๐ŸŽง Feature: Ten Amazing Jobs (And What It Takes To Get Them)

๐ŸŽง Fiction: Visitation Rites

๐ŸŽง Body Talk

๐ŸŽง It Happened To Me: Lynnโ€™s Mother Died Of Cancer

๐ŸŽง Help

๐ŸŽง On The Road: Portland

๐ŸŽง What He Said: Do You Want To Live With A Girl Before You Marry Her?

๐ŸŽง Stuff You Wrote

๐ŸŽง Goodbye For Now

๐ŸŽง Crack Is Wack

NOTES

โš ๏ธ Inline notes below may be truncated due to podcast feed character limits. Full notes are always on the episode page.

๐Ÿ“ย Notes To Boys on Bookshop

๐Ÿฐย FX's Cake

๐Ÿ“šย Slaves Of New York on Thriftbooks

๐Ÿ“ฝย The Slaves Of New York movie on JustWatch

๐Ÿ‘—ย NicoleMiller.com

๐Ÿ“บย Sweetbitter on Starz

๐Ÿ›ย MTV's Museum Of Unnatural History

๐Ÿ•ย Daniel Carter Beard

โšก๏ธย "Should You Electrically Vibrate Your Period Pain Away?" at Slate

๐Ÿ‘™ย Betty Beauty Malibu (Aqua Blue) pubic hair coloring kit at Amazon

๐ŸŽžย Billy Gallo on IMDb

๐ŸŒŽย Billy Gallo's website

๐Ÿ“ทย Billy Gallo on Instagram