Girls Can Kiss Now: Essays

  • Author: Jill Gutowitz
  • Narrator: Jill Gutowitz
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster
  • Duration: 7:04:21
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Synopsis

Named One of the Most Anticipated Books of 2022 by Vogue, BuzzFeed, Bustle, Marie Claire, Harper’s Bazaar, Electric Lit, Thrillist, and Glamour

“Wickedly funny and heartstoppingly vulnerable…every page twinkles with brilliance.” —Refinery29

Perfect for fans of Samantha Irby and Trick Mirror, a funny, whip-smart collection of personal essays exploring the intersection of queerness, relationships, pop culture, the internet, and identity, introducing one of the most undeniably original new voices today.

Jill Gutowitz’s life—for better and worse—has always been on a collision course with pop culture. There’s the time the FBI showed up at her door because of something she tweeted about Game of Thrones. The pop songs that have been the soundtrack to the worst moments of her life. And of course, the pivotal day when Orange Is the New Black hit the airwaves and broke down the door to Jill’s own sexuality. In these honest examinations of identity, desire, and self-worth, Jill explores perhaps the most monumental cultural shift of our lifetimes: the mainstreaming of lesbian culture. Dusting off her own personal traumas and artifacts of her not-so-distant youth she examines how pop culture acts as a fun house mirror reflecting and refracting our values—always teaching, distracting, disappointing, and revealing us.

Girls Can Kiss Now is a fresh and intoxicating blend of personal stories, sharp observations, and laugh-out-loud humor. This timely collection of essays helps us make sense of our collective pop-culture past even as it points the way toward a joyous, uproarious, near—and very queer—future.

Chapters

  • 001 GirlsCanKissNow Open

    Duration: 13s
  • 002 GirlsCanKissNow Dedication

    Duration: 08s
  • 003 GirlsCanKissNow Introduction The Five Eras of Celesbianism

    Duration: 25min
  • 004 GirlsCanKissNow One Memeing With the FBI

    Duration: 39min
  • 005 GirlsCanKissNow Two Im a Famous Actress MOM

    Duration: 30min
  • 006 GirlsCanKissNow Three One Day Youll All Be Gay

    Duration: 47min
  • 007 GirlsCanKissNow Four The Ten Most Important Sapphic Paparazzi Photos

    Duration: 13min
  • 008 GirlsCanKissNow Five A Supercut of Lesbian Yearning

    Duration: 42min
  • 009 GirlsCanKissNow Six Kill the Creator of Entourage in Your Head

    Duration: 41min
  • 010 GirlsCanKissNow Seven A Britney Spears Blackout

    Duration: 11min
  • 011 GirlsCanKissNow Eight Crush Me at the Forum

    Duration: 22min
  • 012 GirlsCanKissNow Nine Step on Me, Julianne Moore

    Duration: 18min
  • 013 GirlsCanKissNow Ten I Know This Now

    Duration: 33min
  • 014 GirlsCanKissNow Eleven Kiss Me, Murder Me in the Woods

    Duration: 19min
  • 015 GirlsCanKissNow Twelve The Current Lesbian Canon, as It Stands

    Duration: 13min
  • 016 GirlsCanKissNow Thirteen Clueless at Chateau Marmont

    Duration: 33min
  • 017 GirlsCanKissNow Fourteen The Beast

    Duration: 22min
  • 018 GirlsCanKissNow Acknowledgments

    Duration: 05min
  • 019 GirlsCanKissNow Close

    Duration: 36s