• Hearts of Glass Living in The Real World

    Hearts of Glass Living in The Real World

    This is the title of an upcoming YA adventure written by Pat Green. Me. It will be releasing in Spring of 2025 with the second novel, Hearts of Glass Fade Away and Radiate coming in Fall/Winter of 2025. It is the tale of teens who meet in a mall in the 80’s bonded by common…

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  • When the Nostalgia Powered Time Machine Breaks

    When the Nostalgia Powered Time Machine Breaks

    Wayback Wednesdays are normally easy to write. I look at On This Day in the 80’s, find a topic, become the living time machine, and have a few paragraphs of fun while embracing the importance of the positive side of nostalgia. But right now it is hard to do. In my personal life I am…

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  • Anniversaries and Conversations We Need

    Anniversaries and Conversations We Need

    Content Advisory! This is about suicide. We get into the thick of it for this one. November 11th of 2019. There was a snowstorm. Bad one. Airports were shut down in Chicago. Flights cancelled. I lay on my bedroom floor that day waiting to die. Next to me was an empty bottle of pills and…

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  • Women’s Thoughts on the New Fem Friday!

    Women’s Thoughts on the New Fem Friday!

    Fem Friday has a new home in Tawnlandia! You can read it on Tawnlandia’s Medium Channel for Fem Friday. If you want to listen to it read by a seasoned audiobook reader you can listen for free on her Patreon or her Feminist Forum. There is a new emphasis in the Fem Friday’s in this…

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  • When Fem Friday is More Important Than the Election

    When Fem Friday is More Important Than the Election

    What could be more important than the most important election in history according to social media? When a Fem Friday is in the ICU. The last time I saw her we met at a restaurant. We closed out the restaurant that day. We laughed in the parking lot about how 4 hours felt like 20…

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  • Election Stress & How To Not Become a Monster

    Election Stress & How To Not Become a Monster

    Tomorrow is election day in the United States. 69% of our audience is in the US. A cursory glance at the news and social media will show that Americans are under a lot of stress and experiencing a lot of anxiety right now. The feelings are valid, there’s a lot at stake. In some ways…

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  • Fem Friday to Have a New Home!

    Fem Friday to Have a New Home!

    TLDR Version: Fem Friday will have a new home at Tawnlandia so it can have it’s own identity and grow. It will reach a broader audience of women and offer audio renderings and new voices! This makes books based on the Fem Friday Features possible! Fem Friday is Bigger than Gen X Watch! Fem Friday…

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  • What does Faith and Vampires With Open Letters Share?

    What does Faith and Vampires With Open Letters Share?

    Faith, Hot Vampires, Open Letters, White Bic Lighters, Wednesday Addams and Large Shoulder Pads. What could any of these things possibly have to do with one another? Other than being in this article together? Not much. October has been an amazing month at Gen X Watch. We have had another month of amazing growth. 13%…

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  • How to Burn Down the Locker Room and Why

    How to Burn Down the Locker Room and Why

    Is the locker room a safe space for men to speak what they truly think? Does the locker room exist wherever two or men are gathered together? Is it necessary to challenge the locker room? How do we do it? Defining the Locker Room Locker Room Talk is not in the dictionary, but it is…

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  • Editor In Chief’s Open Letter to Women

    Editor In Chief’s Open Letter to Women

    Dear Women of Fem Friday, It is with a deep gratitude and concern that I write this. I just finished the first draft of an upcoming novel about one of the most special Fem Friday Women I have written about. As I reflect on the strength and experiences of the woman the main character is…

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