After Max goes back to HBO Max, it goes back to being HBO, then Home Box Office, then Sterling Cable Network, then Manhattan Cable, as the grass grows back into the ground and we all marvel at Video Jukebox, George Carlin Specials and G-String Divas

Easing the Pain of Being Laid Off, One Email at a Time Federal workers, Google employees and newspaper editors have opened up about losing their jobs in a new newsletter.

I wrote about the media industry's favorite Substack.

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Inside the Highs and Lows of Sapphic Pop's Banner Year For young queer pop fans, this year was a dream come true. For artists like Chappell Roan, Muna, and Reneé Rapp, it was more complicated.

sapphics are making the best pop music right now! we always have been! great long read by @abbananafish.bsky.social:

It's not the first time we've been on top of culture, and it won't be the last.

AMEN.

Thank you so much for reading and sharing! I'm glad @simonwilliam.bsky.social let me do 6,000 words on the subject.

THANK YOU SO MUCH!!

Thank you so much, Annie! Beaming that a fellow AV Club alum (and Sara Bareilles fan) digs the piece :)

Inside the Highs and Lows of Sapphic Pop's Banner Year For young queer pop fans, this year was a dream come true. For artists like Chappell Roan, Muna, and Reneé Rapp, it was more complicated

I was interviewed for and quoted in this long-form Rolling Stone piece along with very smart scholar friends @alyxvesey.bsky.social and @kgoldschmitt.bsky.social! Thanks @abbananafish.bsky.social for chatting w/ me about the racial implications of who gets considered and celebrated in sapphic pop

Thank you, thank you! Such a fun one to do.

Kaleb is a brilliant thinker and a very cool person. We got to trade Lilith Fair stories. I am grateful I was able to include their perspective in this piece.

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This was an absolute career highlight for me. So grateful to all the artists who participated and my excellent editor @simonwilliam.bsky.social. Sapphic Pop Summer was a blast for the fans and artists. But representation is a complicated business. Please read and share!

Photo of fans in pink cowboy hats at All Things Go, New York, September 2024. Photo by Maria-Juliana Rojas for Rolling Stone. This photo appears in Abigail Covington's longread feature, "Inside the Highs and Lows of Sapphic Pop's Banner Year"

up now at Rolling Stone: @abbananafish.bsky.social's comprehensive look at the highs and lows of the year in sapphic pop

with amazing photos by Maria-Juliana Rojas + interviews with MUNA, Reneé Rapp, Towa Bird, and queer pop fans & scholars

pls read and share!

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