December 1990 Teen Life: Protests, Fruit & Cocaine

The staff at Sassy had impeccable instincts for building its community -- and in the days when doing so required going to the post office to put actual paper goods in the actual mail, too -- and there's no better proof of their success than its first-ever reader-produced issue. The proof that some 80+ real readers made the issue happen is that...you know, the photos are kind of dark. Also that a lead feature about parents doing cocaine and the effect of their drug use on their 10-year-old son showing a few more gaps than we typically like to see in a piece purporting to be factual. But is the nitpicking by at least one of your co-hosts due in large part to the fact that she's jealous of all her then-peers who, unlike her, WEREN'T too scared to apply? Yes, yes it is. The readers bring us all the usual departments, plus a new one (Green Gossip) and the return of On The Road and a super-sized Stuff WE Wrote: join us as we leap in to the Teen Life topics of the December 1990 issue!

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TOPICS

🎧 It Is December 1990

🎧 Feature: When Mom And Dad Snort Coke

🎧 Feature: Black Armbands And Bart Simpson

🎧 Body Talk

🎧 Green Gossip

🎧 What He Said: When Do You Consider Yourself “Taken”?

🎧 On The Road: Vancouver, BC

🎧 Help

🎧 Help For Him

🎧 It Happened To Me: Magazine Taken Over By Readers

🎧 Comic Strip: Stereotype Gripe

🎧 Horror-Scope

🎧 Stuff We Wrote

🎧 Goodbye For Now

🎧 Women's Section

NOTES

💬 "Free Speech In High School" at TheFire

☮️ "From black armbands to the Supreme Court: Mary Beth Tinker and student free speech rights" at TheFire

🐊 "'No hoodies, no Crocs': Bessemer City High announces dress code requirements for new school year" at WBRC

👗 "Why dress codes are a violation of Title IX" at Lake Oswego Review

📹 The case involving middle school girls who were taped while changing clothes in a locker room, at FindLaw

🌞 "Revealed: The Worst Cities to Live in the U.S. for Your Skin" at Newsweek

📜 Judy Budnitz on Wikipedia

📖 "Miranda July: By the Book" at the New York Times

🖥️ Teresa McWhirter's website

🔫 "My Mom Shot Me" at Vice

🌴 The Again With This podcast on Patreon