"How Aggravating!"
I used to read New Moon Magazine from the age of 8 until I was 15. The magazine comes out of Duluth, Minnesota, but it has readers all over the world, and its target audience is teen and pre-teen girls. The magazine is wonderful (although I'm biased) and is focused on exactly the opposite of Seventeen, CosmoGirl, and other magazines that some girls and teens read at this age.
The magazine has awesome articles about strong women who are good role models for girls, an advice column and letters to the editor written to a fictional character named Luna (the advice column responses and letters to the editor are actually responded to by a girls editorial board, with about 15 girls who live around Duluth that are of the same age as the readers of the magazine and who help to produce it), comics, and stories written by and about the girls who read the magazine. I loved it when I was still young enough to read it.
One of the columns in New Moon is called "How Aggravating!" It includes anecdotes that readers send in basically allowing them to vent about something. Since New Moon has a feminist flair, often the letters written to the column were about something that bothered a reader that seemed sexist, racist, homophobic, or other forms of discrimination. Most of the stories were about things that girls believed were sexist, but there were other types of discrimination mentioned as well.
Now, how does this relate to 21 year old me? I had a pretty annoying morning, and I wanted to write a post about it. I think if there's any posts that I'm inspired to write in the future that seem to fit under the title of "How Aggravating!" will be called "Isn't That Aggravating?" Since I'm going to put a new twist on what I'm writing to include not only writing about discrimination but things that are annoying and bothersome in general, thought it would be good to come up with a new name for these types of posts instead of copying New Moon's idea exactly.
For the first Isn't That Aggravating post, see the next post in my journal (following this one).
The magazine has awesome articles about strong women who are good role models for girls, an advice column and letters to the editor written to a fictional character named Luna (the advice column responses and letters to the editor are actually responded to by a girls editorial board, with about 15 girls who live around Duluth that are of the same age as the readers of the magazine and who help to produce it), comics, and stories written by and about the girls who read the magazine. I loved it when I was still young enough to read it.
One of the columns in New Moon is called "How Aggravating!" It includes anecdotes that readers send in basically allowing them to vent about something. Since New Moon has a feminist flair, often the letters written to the column were about something that bothered a reader that seemed sexist, racist, homophobic, or other forms of discrimination. Most of the stories were about things that girls believed were sexist, but there were other types of discrimination mentioned as well.
Now, how does this relate to 21 year old me? I had a pretty annoying morning, and I wanted to write a post about it. I think if there's any posts that I'm inspired to write in the future that seem to fit under the title of "How Aggravating!" will be called "Isn't That Aggravating?" Since I'm going to put a new twist on what I'm writing to include not only writing about discrimination but things that are annoying and bothersome in general, thought it would be good to come up with a new name for these types of posts instead of copying New Moon's idea exactly.
For the first Isn't That Aggravating post, see the next post in my journal (following this one).