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i was born at the tail end of the millenial era, but this book once again confirmed i at least lived much of the millenial experience—or at the very least the gay millennial experience. the only sign of me possibly falling into gen z territory was the lack of "oh my god santana and brittany!!!" in the final chapter, which, valid considering grace perry was 19 when glee happened and already starting to come out. i, on the other hand, am integrally formed by santana and brittany.

finally i'd like to point out that regina george is in fact a lesbian and i feel very strongly about grace perry having an understandably different opinion yet not including my specific opinion in her own book

tl;dr amazing and relatable content that i highly recommend any (late) millenial read

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3.0

validating as someone who grew up in the 2000’s and early 2010’s! grace perry is a chatty queer who loves pop culture as much as i do, so i definitely was intrigued. perry has an accessible approach and writes in a way that even folks who aren’t huge bookworms or into research will enjoy it without being slammed with sometimes dense theory. my favorite chapters were the ones on harry potter, glee, and mean girls because i think those had the most meaningful and relatable analyses to me.

now my issues came from the lack of diverse subject material which i can’t wholly pin on perry because the early 2000’s are not known for their diverse and expansive media production, however it would’ve been cool to see more stuff that wasn’t just about white teens. i think pretty little liars’ lesbian plotline was very influential and featured two woc, HOWEVER, grace perry was pulling from source material that was influential to her growing up so i’m not going to be harsh about this point, it’s just something i noticed as a reader that i’m sure readers of color also noticed. also docked a star for how many times “aughts” was said because you truly could’ve made a successful drinking game out of it and gotten hammered halfway through.