What is Girlhood Studies? In today’s Plucky, I fill you in. open.substack.com/pub/pluckywi...
Introduction to Girlhood Studies ✨
Your guide to the sparkliest academic discourse online ✨✨✨✨
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H.G. Watson
@hgwatsonwrites.bsky.social
Writer. Sometimes teacher, sometimes audience development. Writing a book about the teen mags of the 1990s and 2000s. 👩💻💖
An insufficient number of air-quality-monitoring stations across Canada leaves many communities, particularly those in rural areas or the Far North, without accurate air quality information. @hgwatsonwrites.bsky.social www.begiant.ca/stories/peop...
Is Canada measuring air quality accurately?
A Canadian scientist’s efforts have improved monitoring, but lack of coverage and communication still leaves communities at risk
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I got the scoop on new media coop @defactomedia.ca from two of the founders! open.substack.com/pub/pluckywi...
Meet a new Canadian media co-op
De Facto, a B.C. based online outlet, has already racked up impressive audience support
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Asking the important questions in this week’s Plucky: open.substack.com/pub/pluckywi...
Is Love Island Good, Actually?
An investigation into a pop culture phenomenon
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In this week’s Plucky, I share my reading list for Teen Mag Research Summer. (Doesn’t quite have the same ring as Brat Summer but it is what it is.) open.substack.com/pub/pluckywi...
A Teen Mag Summer Syllabus
What I'll be reading over the next two months as work on the teen mag book begins in earnest
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How do you build an archive — especially when teen girls often used the originals to decorate bedroom walls? Today on Plucky, I chatted with Shaina Helm, aka imstuckin.1999 about her growing collection of teen mags open.substack.com/pub/pluckywi...
How to build a teen mag archive
Shaina Helm, aka @imstuckin.1999, already has about 650 teen magazines
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Hello! Plucky is back from my vacation hiatus, with a craft essay on how hiking ended up feeding me creatively substack.com/@pluckywithh...
Why I...Hike
Part ??? of a series on the writing life — how did the writing trip go?
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Wrote a little guide to how I approach writing trips in this week’s Plucky! open.substack.com/pub/pluckywi...
So you want to be an adventurous writer?
Part ??? of a series on the writing life — how to plan a writing trip
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In today's Plucky: The Devil Wears Prada 2 made me sad about the state of media, and it had mostly nothing to do with the plot pluckywithhgwatson.substack.com/p/the-devil-...
The Devil Wants Content
Miranda Priestly is back, and she knows what gorpcore is
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In today's Plucky, another boost for my @jsource.bsky.social essay on writing as labour pluckywithhgwatson.substack.com/p/in-defense...
In defense of blue-collar creative work
A sneak peak of my new story in J-Source
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I’m on J-Source today with an essay on how the labour of writing needs defending! tinyurl.com/2dbmeb6j
In defense of blue-collar creative work - J-Source
On the necessity of valuing the labour of writing
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I learned so much about the world from teen mags. I wonder where kids get that context today? We dive into the serious journalism of teen mags in today’s Plucky open.substack.com/pub/pluckywi...
Teens deserve their own journalism
A journey into reporting on the big issues in teen magazines
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We’re on strike today! Support our fight for a fair contract by NOT visiting the @propublica.org website or engaging with ProPublica stories today. Tell ProPublica’s management you won’t cross the picket line: actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...
Watching a rocket launch on TV, like the days of yore
It’s tax time and I’m in hell! Learn from me! Do better! open.substack.com/pub/pluckywi...
The worst time of the year, and other lessons I've learned about freelancing
Part ??? of a series on the writing life
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Great story at @thelocal.to -- these folks are the real front line against everyday driver rage and asshole behavior and their poorly paid or protected. We do not care though. There has been no popular blowback to standard behavoir. Only the occasional high profile drunk gets people upset.
The New Reality for Toronto's Crossing Guards | The Local
Once a job for local retirees backed by the police, today's crossing guards are poorly paid contract workers employed by private companies. As they confront growing road rage and speeding drivers, the...
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In this week's Plucky: While reading Maria Ressa's How to Stand Up to a Dictator, I saw many similarities between the tech rush of the aughts and the AI rush of today. What is a journalism instructor to do? pluckywithhgwatson.substack.com/p/what-comes...
What comes next in journalism
Lessons from Maria Ressa and How to Stand Up to a Dictator
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In today's Plucky: what if girls had their own media ecosystem? Something that helps them deal with their radicalized male classmates? Could it be some kind of...girlosphere? substack.com/home/post/p-...
Do we need a Girlosphere?
Just kidding! Unless...
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In this week's Plucky, we travel back to the 90s to look at the first time women's sports had a big moment pluckywithhgwatson.substack.com/p/sporty-spice
Sporty Spice
Women's sports are having a moment. It's not the first time.
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I wrote about old rap magazines, the fight for the future of hip hop’s past, and the impact the digital age has had on history, for @defector.com defector.com/lost-recipes
Lost Recipes | Defector
In 1991, Spin magazine took the Compton rap collective N.W.A out to eat for a profile at the Russian Tea Room in Manhattan. The white author presents gangsta rap as a cynical enterprise, no different ...
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After a week off, I'm back with some thoughts on periods of intentional rest for creative types! pluckywithhgwatson.substack.com/p/the-winter...
The winter of our creative discontent
First in a ???-part series on the writing life
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New Plucky: I talked about some of the books I've read over the last few years that reclaim "girlie media." Also a small rant on people misunderstanding Carol J. Clover and the final girl pluckywithhgwatson.substack.com/p/girl-talk
Girl Talk
A reading list for understanding how people make their own narratives
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Today in Plucky — journalism has always had a fundamental flaw: capitalism substack.com/home/post/p-...
Trend Watch: Killing Journalism
Democracy dies not in darkness, but when billionaires stab it in the back
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It's insane we haven't yet had a goofy comedy about the curling world. Will Ferrell, you have work to do.
This week, in Plucky: some thoughts about critically engaging with romance books! pluckywithhgwatson.substack.com/p/smart-abou...
Smart about Smut
Begun, the romance book war has
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In today's newsletter: some reflections on what it means to look to the helpers, when the helpers are getting killed. And some resources for supporting Minnesotans open.substack.com/pub/pluckywi...
A Snow Day Plucky Notes
Resources for supporting Minnesotans; what happens when the helpers are hurt
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