The Gen-X Journals
Alexa Joy Sherman YoungEssays 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 skateboards, the Brady Bunch, and MTV, you're in the right place.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Twice weekly |
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| Issues | 10 | Founded | 3 months ago | Last Issue | 11 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-...
Lose Weight Now, Ask Me How
Like a lot of Gen-X women, I went on my first diet around the age of 13 — and I’ve been in a battle with my body ever since. I’ve bounced between 10 lbs under “goal” (okay, maybe only 5, and that happened like one time in the 90s) and 70 lb...
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...
Today Is Where Your Book Begins
One of my favorite things about being on Substack so far is the community of fellow writers I’ve already found. The other day, Laurie Flynn* of My Menossance reached out and we started swapping stories about various things — including the b...
Am I Turning Into My Mother?
Ah, but can the heart die and then come back to life?
Reading through my old diaries was part of the inspiration for creating The Gen-X Journals but that’s not the whole story. I’ve also been digging through a folder full of stuff my mom w...
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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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