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Grab your midlife magnifying glass and join me in the analog closet (Seven Minutes In Heaven optional) to figure out how much we've changed and where…
Apr 9 • Alexa Joy Sherman Young
Fuck the Fourth of July
On political and hormonal exhaustion, and declaring my independence from productivity and performance culture
Jul 11 • Alexa Joy Sherman Young
Beauty and the Inner Beast
To Botox or not to Botox? On vanity, insecurity, and striving for self-acceptance in a looks-obsessed society
Jun 24 • Alexa Joy Sherman Young
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Fuck the Fourth of July
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Today Is Where Your Book Begins
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Cougar Puberty
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Ticket Tuesday: R.E.M.
On associating one concert, and a whole lot of my life's rich pageant, with the friend who was right there with me
Jun 17 • Alexa Joy Sherman Young
The Sex Lives of College Girls
On ugly-crying through Off Campus, ugly-cringing through my boy-crazy college diaries, and finally allowing myself to be seen
Jun 5 • Alexa Joy Sherman Young
Lose Weight Now, Ask Me How
On diet culture, equating our size with self-worth, and a plea to stop the insanity
May 22 • Alexa Joy Sherman Young
Deep Cuts
Introducing a new Q&A opportunity. Because the B-sides were always the best part...
May 19 • Alexa Joy Sherman Young
Today Is Where Your Book Begins
On the stories I loved as a kid, and the tales yet to be told...
May 15 • Alexa Joy Sherman Young
Am I Turning Into My Mother?
On the once-terrifying prospect of becoming our parents, and why that kinda-sorta-maybe doesn't have to be such a bad thing after all
May 9 • Alexa Joy Sherman Young
The Gen-X Journals
The Gen-X Journals
Essays on growing up Gen-X and moving through midlife with no more fucks left to give. Shameless nostalgia! Unfiltered hot takes! Existential dread! If you were raised feral on banana-seat bikes, The Brady Bunch, and MTV, you're in the right place.
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