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+ Announcing the tagline you voted for • Ione Skye's memoir • Alanis Morisette's new book
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Let’s play by our own rules, together
A few weeks ago, we invited all y’all to cast your vote for your favorite Midst tagline … and the winner is “Playing by our own rules.” We added “the together” part because we really are in the midst of playing by our own rules right along with you.
We had a blast reading your feedback and suggestions and I’m impressed with your copywriting ideas! We also heard that you like our OG “F#ck Middle Age” tagline, so we’ll keep her around as well. A note on that: We’re not flipping the bird on middle age — we embrace middle age. The point is that we’re flipping the bird to the outdated notions of “middle age” with their over-the-hill sentiments.
Also want to shout out the women pictured in the graphic, clockwise from top center:
• [photo with the explicits over her mouth] MidstHer Alisa Kennedy Jones
• Midst writer Lauria Locsmondy
• Midst reader Amber Martin
• Midst writer and tarot reader Bonnie Ho (holding the deck of cards)
• Interviewee Nina Lorez Collins, author of What Would Virginia Woolf Do And Other Questions I Ask Myself As I Attempt to Age Without Apology
• Nutrition columnist Sally Duffin
• Me
• MidstHer Gretchen Gonzalez Davidson
• MidstHer Vanessa Ting
Center photos from left:
• Interviewee Stacy London
• Columnist Dixie Laite
March #HBDGAL
Lady Gaga, Sarah Jessica Parker, Diana Ross, and more
Do you have a March birthday? What day? Let’s celebrate!
Funny, I was just thinking about Ione Skye the other day and wondering what she’s up to. Then this NY Times interview came out, and apparently she’s Jane Pratt’s new music editor on Jane’s Substack. Skye released her memoir, Say Everything (love the title), yesterday.
Speaking of Gen X heroes, the world will celebrate Alanis Morissette’s 30th birthday of her iconic album with a book called Alanis: Thirty Years of Jagged Little Pill, on June 24. The book is available for pre-orders and here’s a description:
On June 13, 1995, 21-year-old Alanis Morissette released Jagged Little Pill, an existential awakening of sexuality, a rail against sexism, and a confessional catch-all of topics related to anxiety, depression, angst, eating disorders, religious dogma, and beauty standards. In an era coming off the high of the ’80s and ’90s pop machine, Alanis was a total about-face, peeling off the sheen of what female music leads could be. She was the voice sitting quietly within women in the post-grunge era who finally felt the freedom to let it all out.
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