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November 1988 Teen Life: Sick Moms, Fighting Sisters & Virgins
Sassy is, of course, very proud of the work they did in their first few issues -- describing what readers' first sexual experiences might be like, demystifying boys' bodies, profiling out queer couples, and so on. But apparently the hate mail we read in the October issue was just a tiny fraction of what they received, or so we must surmise given November's lead feature: "Virgins Are Cool"! The issue then wends its way through how to land very cool jobs; what life is like for sisters who just cannot get along; a trip to Portland, Maine; and not one but two pieces about living with a mother who is ill. All this and much more: we hope you'll be thankful for our first episode on the November 1988 issue!
QUICK LINKS
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TOPICS
🎧 It Is November 1988
🎧 In Our Lives + Spine Line
🎧 Feature: Virgins Are Cool
🎧 Feature: Terrorizing Your Sister
🎧 Feature: Ten Amazing Jobs (And What It Takes To Get Them)
🎧 Fiction: Visitation Rites
🎧 Body Talk
🎧 It Happened To Me: Lynn’s Mother Died Of Cancer
🎧 Help
🎧 On The Road: Portland
🎧 What He Said: Do You Want To Live With A Girl Before You Marry Her?
🎧 Stuff You Wrote
🎧 Goodbye For Now
🎧 Crack Is Wack
NOTES
⚠️ Inline notes below may be truncated due to podcast feed character limits. Full notes are always on the episode page.
📝 Notes To Boys on Bookshop
🍰 FX's Cake
📚 Slaves Of New York on Thriftbooks
📽 The Slaves Of New York movie on JustWatch
👗 NicoleMiller.com
📺 Sweetbitter on Starz
🏛 MTV's Museum Of Unnatural History
🏕 Daniel Carter Beard
⚡️ "Should You Electrically Vibrate Your Period Pain Away?" at Slate
👙 Betty Beauty Malibu (Aqua Blue) pubic hair coloring kit at Amazon
🎞 Billy Gallo on IMDb
🌎 Billy Gallo's website
📷 Billy Gallo on Instagram
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By Tara Ariano, Pamela Ribon and David T. Cole
4.9
247247 ratings
Sassy is, of course, very proud of the work they did in their first few issues -- describing what readers' first sexual experiences might be like, demystifying boys' bodies, profiling out queer couples, and so on. But apparently the hate mail we read in the October issue was just a tiny fraction of what they received, or so we must surmise given November's lead feature: "Virgins Are Cool"! The issue then wends its way through how to land very cool jobs; what life is like for sisters who just cannot get along; a trip to Portland, Maine; and not one but two pieces about living with a mother who is ill. All this and much more: we hope you'll be thankful for our first episode on the November 1988 issue!
QUICK LINKS
🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on ListenToSassy.com
🖼️ View select scans from this issue in this episode's Visual Aids
☎️ Call The Hotline! Leave your questions, comments and Sassy stories on the hotline at 720-SASSY-GO or record directly on our site
🐦 @ListenToSassy on Twitter
📷 @ListenToSassy on Instagram
🧑💻 Visit our website ListenToSassy.com
JOIN THE LTS CLUB AND GET THE GOODIES
📖 Full cover-to-cover magazine PDFs
💬 Chat with us and your fellow listeners on Discord
🐣 Get episodes earlier than the general public
👀 Monthly watch-alongs of Sassy-era movies and TV specials
🚫 Ad free episodes with chapter markers
👚 Merch discounts and free stickers
🤩 Join the Listen To Sassy Club today!
TOPICS
🎧 It Is November 1988
🎧 In Our Lives + Spine Line
🎧 Feature: Virgins Are Cool
🎧 Feature: Terrorizing Your Sister
🎧 Feature: Ten Amazing Jobs (And What It Takes To Get Them)
🎧 Fiction: Visitation Rites
🎧 Body Talk
🎧 It Happened To Me: Lynn’s Mother Died Of Cancer
🎧 Help
🎧 On The Road: Portland
🎧 What He Said: Do You Want To Live With A Girl Before You Marry Her?
🎧 Stuff You Wrote
🎧 Goodbye For Now
🎧 Crack Is Wack
NOTES
⚠️ Inline notes below may be truncated due to podcast feed character limits. Full notes are always on the episode page.
📝 Notes To Boys on Bookshop
🍰 FX's Cake
📚 Slaves Of New York on Thriftbooks
📽 The Slaves Of New York movie on JustWatch
👗 NicoleMiller.com
📺 Sweetbitter on Starz
🏛 MTV's Museum Of Unnatural History
🏕 Daniel Carter Beard
⚡️ "Should You Electrically Vibrate Your Period Pain Away?" at Slate
👙 Betty Beauty Malibu (Aqua Blue) pubic hair coloring kit at Amazon
🎞 Billy Gallo on IMDb
🌎 Billy Gallo's website
📷 Billy Gallo on Instagram
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