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The Gen-X Journals

Alexa Joy Sherman Young

Essays on growing up Gen-X and moving through midlife with no more fucks left to give. Shameless nostalgia! Unfiltered hot takes! Existential dread! If you were raised feral on banana-seat bikes, The Brady Bunch, and MTV, you're in the right place.

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Beauty and the Inner Beast

When I introduce myself as Alexa Joy Sherman Young, I often joke that I have multiple names for multiple personalities. I say this without intending any harm to those living with real, trauma-related diagnoses, but rather in the Walt Whitma...

12 days ago
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Ticket Tuesday: R.E.M.

Every time I look at this concert ticket, memories come flooding back.

With winter exams officially over, I was flying high on the fumes of a second quarter of college completed — and so was my friend and roommate, April. We couldn’t wait...

20 days ago
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The Sex Lives of College Girls

Unless you’ve been living under a rock (or you’re boycotting Amazon), you’ve probably heard about Off Campus — the Prime Video hockey romance series adapted from Elle Kennedy’s novel, The Deal. I binged the show a couple of weeks ago, ugly-...

a month ago
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Lose Weight Now, Ask Me How

Like a lot of Gen-X women, I went on my first diet around the age of thirteen — and I’ve been in a battle with my body ever since. I’ve bounced between 10 lbs under “goal” (okay, maybe only five, and that happened like one time in the 90s)...

a month ago
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Deep Cuts

Why yes, these were just sitting on a shelf in the living room (I kid you not)

Every Gen-Xer has an archive. Not just published books or bylines. I’m talking about the old diaries and photo albums gathering dust in a storage space, the uns...

2 months ago
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    Writer, editor, and queen of TMI. Author of Frenemies (HarperTeen), which inspired a Disney movie starring Zendaya (yeah, her), and The Happy Hook-up: A Single Girl's Guide to Casual Sex (Ten Speed Press). Perimenopausal AF. Still human, I think \ud83e\udd14

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