December 1990 Teen Life: Protests, Fruit & Cocaine
Oct 29, 09:00 AM
The readers produced the issue! The editors maybe should have helped a little more!
The staff at Sassy had impeccable instincts for building its community -- and in the days when doing so required going to the post office to put actual paper goods in the actual mail, too -- and there's no better proof of their success than its first-ever reader-produced issue. The proof that some 80+ real readers made the issue happen is that...you know, the photos are kind of dark. Also that a lead feature about parents doing cocaine and the effect of their drug use on their 10-year-old son showing a few more gaps than we typically like to see in a piece purporting to be factual. But is the nitpicking by at least one of your co-hosts due in large part to the fact that she's jealous of all her then-peers who, unlike her, WEREN'T too scared to apply? Yes, yes it is. The readers bring us all the usual departments, plus a new one (Green Gossip) and the return of On The Road and a super-sized Stuff WE Wrote: join us as we leap in to the Teen Life topics of the December 1990 issue!
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TOPICS
๐ง It Is December 1990
๐ง Feature: When Mom And Dad Snort Coke
๐ง Feature: Black Armbands And Bart Simpson
๐ง Body Talk
๐ง Green Gossip
๐ง What He Said: When Do You Consider Yourself โTakenโ?
๐ง On The Road: Vancouver, BC
๐ง Help
๐ง Help For Him
๐ง It Happened To Me: Magazine Taken Over By Readers
๐ง Comic Strip: Stereotype Gripe
๐ง Horror-Scope
๐ง Stuff We Wrote
๐ง Goodbye For Now
๐ง Women's Section
NOTES
๐ฌ "Free Speech In High School" at TheFire
โฎ๏ธ "From black armbands to the Supreme Court: Mary Beth Tinker and student free speech rights" at TheFire
๐ "'No hoodies, no Crocs': Bessemer City High announces dress code requirements for new school year" at WBRC
๐ "Why dress codes are a violation of Title IX" at Lake Oswego Review
๐น The case involving middle school girls who were taped while changing clothes in a locker room, at FindLaw
๐ "Revealed: The Worst Cities to Live in the U.S. for Your Skin" at Newsweek
๐ Judy Budnitz on Wikipedia
๐ "Miranda July: By the Book" at theย New York Times
๐ฅ๏ธ Teresa McWhirter's website
๐ซ "My Mom Shot Me" at Vice
๐ด Theย Again With Thisย podcast on Patreon
QUICK LINKS
๐ Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our website
๐ผ๏ธ Check out this episode's Visual Aids
โ๏ธ Call The Hotline! Leave your questions, comments and Sassy stories on the hotline at 720-SASSY-GO or record directly on our site
๐ฆ @ListenToSassy on Bluesky
๐ท @ListenToSassy on Instagram
๐งโ๐ป Visit our website ListenToSassy.com
๐๏ธ Shop the LTS Store
JOIN THE LTS CLUB AND GET THE GOODIES
๐ Full cover-to-cover magazine PDFs
๐ฌ Chat with us and your fellow listeners on Discord
๐ฃ Get episodes earlier than the general public
๐ซ Ad free episodes with chapter markers
๐คฉ Join the Listen To Sassy Club today!
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TOPICS
๐ง It Is December 1990
๐ง Feature: When Mom And Dad Snort Coke
๐ง Feature: Black Armbands And Bart Simpson
๐ง Body Talk
๐ง Green Gossip
๐ง What He Said: When Do You Consider Yourself โTakenโ?
๐ง On The Road: Vancouver, BC
๐ง Help
๐ง Help For Him
๐ง It Happened To Me: Magazine Taken Over By Readers
๐ง Comic Strip: Stereotype Gripe
๐ง Horror-Scope
๐ง Stuff We Wrote
๐ง Goodbye For Now
๐ง Women's Section
NOTES
๐ฌ "Free Speech In High School" at TheFire
โฎ๏ธ "From black armbands to the Supreme Court: Mary Beth Tinker and student free speech rights" at TheFire
๐ "'No hoodies, no Crocs': Bessemer City High announces dress code requirements for new school year" at WBRC
๐ "Why dress codes are a violation of Title IX" at Lake Oswego Review
๐น The case involving middle school girls who were taped while changing clothes in a locker room, at FindLaw
๐ "Revealed: The Worst Cities to Live in the U.S. for Your Skin" at Newsweek
๐ Judy Budnitz on Wikipedia
๐ "Miranda July: By the Book" at theย New York Times
๐ฅ๏ธ Teresa McWhirter's website
๐ซ "My Mom Shot Me" at Vice
๐ด Theย Again With Thisย podcast on Patreon