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A review by amandabrookem
The 2000s Made Me Gay: Essays on Pop Culture by Grace Perry
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.
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.