Episode 18: Hey, Day! by Super Clea and Keva Marie

Sunshine and self help every day of the year! Carey and Marie turn back the (rhinestone) clock to 2001 for this fun, funky piece of post-riot-grrl/pre-Tumblr girl empowerment culture. Super Clea (Hantman) and Keva Marie (Dine) invite us to let down our hair and cover it in avocado, kick back in a hand-crafted hammock, and follow our bliss while honoring cool women from the past. After you listen, you'll wanna bedazzle something good for yourself (and bad for the patriarchy.)

Hey, Day!: Is out of print! We love BetterWorldBooks and Barnes and Noble,  or check your local used bookstore

Clea Hantman: SuperClea blog

Keva Marie: Keva Dine Agency

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Content Notes

Lots of early oughts "isn't this culture so WEIRD and COOL," which comes from a heartfelt place but we can do better in 2018. Approach other cultures with respect and compassion, and we're golden.

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Show Notes

The Vicar of Dibley

What Would Mister Rogers Eat? Thanksgiving in the Neighborhood

How to play Exquisite Corpse

What is a drabble?

How to Make Pippi Longstocking Braids

How to Make a Zine (from one page of paper)

Manifesta: Young Women, Feminism, and the Future

Grassroots: A Field Guide for Feminist Activism

Make a Snow Globe

Andrea Scher - Storybowl - Superhero Necklaces are back!

Clare Crespo - 2018 Hurray Today Calendar

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Readalikes

Elf Girl by Reverend Jen (Miller)

Rookie Yearbook series

Living Out Loud by Keri Smith

The Animated Thumbtack Railroad Dollhouse & All Around Surprise Book, Evening Edition by Louis Phillips

Current Reads

Not Now, Not Ever  and The Only Thing Worse Than Me Is You by Lily Anderson

The Neddiad: How Neddie Took the Train, Went to Hollywood, and Saved Civilization and Alan Mendelson, the Boy from Mars by Daniel Pinkwater

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Episode 17: Practice Safe Sparkle: The Crafty Diva series by Kathy Cano-Murillo

Hopping over to Arizona, land of the Crafty Chica, for Sunshine and Self-Help Month! We hop back in time to look at Kathy Cano-Murillo's oughts-tastic crafting books, the Crafty Diva series. Carey and Marie discuss formative crafts, New Year's resolutions, and what, exactly, can and should be glittered.

Kathy Cano-Murillo: Website

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Content Notes

Beyond your usual craft book content (sharp objects, etc), this book has the distinction of being our first without a content warning! Congrats!

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Episode 16: Fundamental Glitterature: Weetzie Bat by Francesca Lia Block

Lanky Lizards! Carey and Marie couldn't hold back from talking about the It Girl of Gen X lit, Weetzie Bat by Francesca Lia Block. 

Weetzie Bat: Amazon.com, Barnes and Noble, Goodreads

Francesca Lia Block: Website, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, Polyvore

Wanna chat? GoYourOwnYA at Gmail dot Com and everywhere else!

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Content Warnings

Sex, death, rock and roll, skinheads, addiction, parent death, having a baby with your BFFs behind your partner's back, and some cultural issues well addressed by others. We talk a lot about how on the occasion of the 30th Anniversary of publication, it would be a great time to address how things have changed and what would be different nowadays.

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Show Notes

Did you know there's a Weetzie Bat cookbook? Check out Fairies in the Kitchen by Cameron Stanton!

Inside ElsaGate

Girl Power: Young Women Speak Out! by Hillary Carlip

The Zine Scene by Hillary Carlip and Francesca Lia Block

Girl Goddess #9 by Francesca Lia Block

WhimWham: Living a Life of Whimsy

Download Your LiveJournal as a PDF

Beloved Rookie did a whole series of posts on Weetzie Bat, including:

• Magical Creature: An Interview With Francesca Lia Block

• Secret Style Icon: Weetzie Bat

• Friday Playlist: Hanging Out With Weetzie Bat

• DIY Weetzie Nails

Vintage LA by Jennifer Brandt Taylor is a must read for fans of the Dangerous Angels books!

Pre-order The Thorn Necklace: Healing Through Writing and the Creative Process

Jeremiah's Vanishing New York

Cynthia Heimel

A&B by J.C. Lillis

The Gallery of Regrettable Food - Spry Lard

Wendy McClure: Weight Watchers Recipe Cards from 1974

Charlotte Zolotow

Dear Genius: The Letters of Ursula Nordstrom

Worlds Within: Children's Fantasy From The Middle Ages To Today

Irving Block at IMDB

Valencia Is The Most Masterful Dyke-Centric Artsy-Weirdo Film I’ve Ever Seen

Shock Value: A Tasteful Book about Bad Taste by John Waters

Love The Simpsons? We do too! Have a listen to Everything's Coming Up Simpsons

Eric Carle Museum

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Readalikes

Everything Leads to You by Nina LaCour

When The Moon Was Ours by Anna-Marie McLemore

Current Reads

Modern Tarot by Michelle Tea

Unf*ck Your Habitat by Rachel Hoffman

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Episode 15: Life is a Movie Starring You: The Pesky Meddling Girls' Guide to Living Your Dreams by Jennifur Brandt

Sunshine and Self Help month kicks off with a groovy guide to life by the endlessly cool Jennifur Brandt (aka Jennifer Brandt Taylor). Were you a weirdo, nostalgic teen who admired both Riot Grrl culture and classic cinema? Do you love collage, paper dolls, and pissing off the patriarchy? Read along with us as we talk novelty stores, fashion tips from 2000, and the eternal appeal of Weetzie Bat.

Jennifer Brandt Taylor's website: The Librarian (also on Twitter and Instagram)

Pesky Meddling Girl Instagram

Life is a Movie Starring You: Out of print! Check your beloved local used bookstore, or some of these shops who can ship copies to you: Strand Bookstore, Montclair Book Center. Of course, there are used copies on Amazon, Barnes and Noble and the like!

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Content Notes

Old Hollywood movies means Old Hollywood values! That means racism, sexism, and all sorts of -isms. Otherwise, a happy, kind, and supportive guide whose advice we endorse to this day!

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Show Notes

Celebrating Chalica

"MAMA IT'S COLD OUTSIDE!" Sure is, #princessringding -time to cuddle up with a good book (or our latest episode-link in the profile!)

19 Likes, 3 Comments - Go Your Own YA (@goyourownyapodcast) on Instagram: ""MAMA IT'S COLD OUTSIDE!" Sure is, #princessringding -time to cuddle up with a good book (or our..."

Foster Ring Ding loved this book! She found it delicious. Adopt her via Brooklyn FAT Cats!

Girl Power: Jennifur Brandt’s New Lifestyle Brand

‘Pesky Meddling Girls’: ’Zine touts pop culture

50 Things to Do in Baltimore

American Visionary Art Museum

Jeremiah's Vanishing New York: Tah-Poozie

End Comes for Love Saves the Day

Toy Tokyo

Vintage L.A.: Eats, Boutiques, Decor, Landmarks, Markets & More by Jennifer Brandt Taylor

Listen to Friends of the Podcast on Secrets of Story and Fuse 8 n' Kate!

Bob Baker Marionette Theatre

On March 9th, be a warrior. Watch the brand-new trailer for Disney's A Wrinkle in Time. Website and Mobile site: disney.com/wrinkleintime Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WrinkleinTimeMovie/ Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/WrinkleinTime Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wrinkleintime/ Hashtag: #WrinkleinTime From visionary director Ava DuVernay comes Disney's "A Wrinkle in Time," an epic adventure based on Madeleine L'Engle's timeless classic which takes audiences across dimensions of time and space, examining the nature of darkness versus light and, ultimately, the triumph of love.

True Grease: The unvarnished story behind my favorite girl gang, the Pink Ladies.

Through the Labyrinth, and What Sarah Found There

Wise Children by Angela Carter

My Life (And Nobody Else's): A Personal and Private Fill-In-The-Blanks Record Book

The Late Great Me by Sandra Scoppetone

12 Deadly Cyns...and then Some

Amy Krouse Rosenthal

How to Live Life with Fantastic Aliveness: Remembering Amy Krouse Rosenthal

Dewdrops in the Garden playlist

Qoya

The Year That Skin Care Became a Coping Mechanism

Rachel Wilkerson Miller/ The REWM - "How to Spend Christmas Alone"

Shout out BSCC and Baby Bees!

You should be listening to Carey's Music!

Jennifer Brandt Taylor's House Tour

A Girl Like I by Anita Loos

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Readalikes

The Rookie Yearbooks by Tavi Gevinson and editors of Rookie

Queen of the Oddballs by Hillary Carlip

Current Reads

The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper

Under Her Spell by Bridget Essex

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Episode 14: The Betsy-Tacy Holiday Special

Happy Hols, Readers and Listeners! This episode is all about the classic Betsy-Tacy series by Maud Hart Lovelace and their wonderful, homey Christmas chapters. We talk holiday memories, stories about childhood friendship, and just a little bit of terrible boys, creepy elves, and talking trains.

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Content Warnings

Forever YA goes into detail about the racial, class, and other issues which color these books, and what you, the modern reader, should need to know. Read here for Betsy and Tacy go Downtown, and here for Betsy and Joe.

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Show Notes

The Betsy-Tacy Society

Betsy-Tacy Convention 2018: August 3-5, Minneapolis, MN

The return of Maud Lovelace’s Betsy-Tacy books.

"Isn't That Just like Tib?": Betsy and Tacy Confront the Other

The Long Secret by Louise Fitzhugh

Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret by Judy Blume

Lillian Russell and Mrs. Poppy via The Betsy-Tacy Encyclopedia, who also share A Very Mer-Ray Christmas describing happy scenes from Heaven to Betsy

Betsy-Tacy's Deep Valley: All things Maud Hart Lovelace, Betsy-Tacy and Deep Valley

Photo by Damien Walmsley

The Most Festive Things to Do in Milwaukee this Holiday Season

Ten Beloved German Christmas Traditions

A Smoke-Free Goodnight Moon

Christkindlmarket Chicago

Five Good Things from the Christmas Fair on Staten Island Catholic school Christmas Fairs, by Dinosaur Dracula

Italian Christmas Traditions: The Legend of La Befana

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Readalikes

The Wondrous World of Violet Barnaby by Jenny Lundquist

The Emily Byrd Starr series by Lucy Maud Montgomery

Current Reads

The Ghost of a Chance by Natalie Vivien

The Authentics by Abdi Nazemian

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