Edited By Tavi Gevinson
Do you know about Tavi? Do you know about Rookiemag?
I have been reading Tavis blog The Style Rookie for a couple of years now and am super stoked to be able to say that and even happier to be able to now read Rookiemag, her online magazine that has new content 5 days a week. I still don't think I am getting enough of what this young lady is dishing out.
Why do I like her so much? Tavi is the future and the future is amazing.
She was a young girl who was kinda strange, she liked going to thrift stores, and cared more about random movies and strange hats than fitting in or being popular. Like me, and like a lot of people I have known and know now. But Tavi was born in 1996 so she has something we didn't have, she has the internet in all its glory, and she figured out how to get her voice out there and she found people who were interested in what she had to say, she found a crap ton of them.
What might be my favorite thing about this girl is now that she is a indie supper star, becoming famous threw her blog you know what she does? This girl makes zines, ZINES! Those half comic half colash things I made when I was a kid when i was trying to get myself on paper and hopefully out in the world, the things I made and tried to get every little book/comic/anything store to carry just so I could feel like I was at least trying to grasp at a community that I could understand and understood me.
Its like she is this amazing child born from all of the teen angst all us strange kids built up inside ourselves.
But better because she isn't us, she is better really, because she had a huge jump start and she hasn't seemed to take a break since.
I thin the internet was created solely for her, and so we could meet her. And porn of course.
Oh yeah Rookiemag came out with a real mag! Its huge (350) pages and its got some stuff I think you should read, like interviews with Daniel Clowes, David Sedaris, John Waters, Aubrey Plaza and more amazing people.
And some great articles I wish I had when i was a teen but am grateful for now, such as, How To Not Care What Other People Think Of You, Living Room Space Traveler how to make a cardboard-box rocket ship, and a article where Miranda July tells us being a feminist.
Also it looks absolutely beautiful. The attention to detail is ridicules and there is actually content, I only say this because it is a 'magazine for girls' so if you are comparing it to other magazines for girls it makes the ones you can get at the grocery look not only horribly insulting but just plain poorly done.
Random page from rookie atop a random page of Harper's Bazar.
just sayin, Rookie Yearbook is super fine.
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