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

๐ŸŽง It Is December 1990

๐ŸŽง Feature: When Mom And Dad Snort Coke

๐ŸŽง Feature: Black Armbands And Bart Simpson

๐ŸŽง Body Talk

๐ŸŽง Green Gossip

๐ŸŽง What He Said: When Do You Consider Yourself โ€œTakenโ€?

๐ŸŽง On The Road: Vancouver, BC

๐ŸŽง Help

๐ŸŽง Help For Him

๐ŸŽง It Happened To Me: Magazine Taken Over By Readers

๐ŸŽง Comic Strip: Stereotype Gripe

๐ŸŽง Horror-Scope

๐ŸŽง Stuff We Wrote

๐ŸŽง Goodbye For Now

๐ŸŽง Women's Section

NOTES

๐Ÿ’ฌ "Free Speech In High School" at TheFire

โ˜ฎ๏ธ "From black armbands to the Supreme Court: Mary Beth Tinker and student free speech rights" at TheFire

๐ŸŠ "'No hoodies, no Crocs': Bessemer City High announces dress code requirements for new school year" at WBRC

๐Ÿ‘— "Why dress codes are a violation of Title IX" at Lake Oswego Review

๐Ÿ“น The case involving middle school girls who were taped while changing clothes in a locker room, at FindLaw

๐ŸŒž "Revealed: The Worst Cities to Live in the U.S. for Your Skin" at Newsweek

๐Ÿ“œ Judy Budnitz on Wikipedia

๐Ÿ“– "Miranda July: By the Book" at theย New York Times

๐Ÿ–ฅ๏ธ Teresa McWhirter's website

๐Ÿ”ซ "My Mom Shot Me" at Vice

๐ŸŒด Theย Again With Thisย podcast on Patreon