On this week's episode, we discuss the legendary online publication and twee teenage nightmare, Rookie magazine. Founded by ordained gifted kid Tavi Gevinson in 2011, Rookie radicalized a generation of Tumblr-addicted young women into free-bleeding their way through lives, physically and emotionally. We share stories from our self-imposed suffering as misguided teen feminists, discuss the neoliberal obsession with pubescent saviors, speculate on the potential pleasure of trauma, and do recon to figure out whether or not /my sister's boyfriend Fox on his last day of high school/ is still trade.https://www.rookiemag.com/

For part 2 of our American Apparel series, we forensically* investigate founder and former CEO Dov Charney’s wealth of sexual harassment lawsuits and discuss how they ultimately led to the company’s chaotic implosion in 2015. We consider how this controversy relates to contemporary sexual dynamics and finally answer the question that’s been weighing on our nation’s psyche for over 15 years: Is Dov Charney a schizophrenic genius or a libertarian pervert?Further reading material…Claudine Ko’s 2004 profile of Dov (the infamous masturbation interview): http://www.claudineko.com/storiesamericanapparel.htmlClaudine Ko’s follow up profile a year later: https://www.claudineko.com/storiesAA2.htmlAmerican Apparel’s alleged conspiracy to force Dov out: https://www.businessinsider.com/dov-charney-forced-out-of-american-apparel-2015-8Sex and Suits by Anne Hollander: https://www.google.com/books/edition/Sex_and_Suits/06kgDAAAQBAJ?hl=en*We are not lawyers or investigative journalists. We are just 3 girls who spent a lot of time looking up “Dov Charney sexual harassment allegations.”