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Episode 0: Life Skills by Rookie Audio Trailer

By: Tavi Gevinson
Narrated by: Tavi Gevinson
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Practical guidance for life’s stupid problems

Tavi Gevinson founded the online magazine Rookie in 2011, when she was fifteen-years-old. She wanted to create a space for teens that was free of messaging telling them who they should be and instead celebrated them for who they were. Rookie attracted a thriving community until it folded in 2018. Its now-grown readers still seek out its archive and book series today.

In this podcast, Tavi revives Rookie’s popular Life Skills column with brand new, encouraging but never prescriptive advice for coping with messy, personal conundrums. Like: How do I talk to people if I suck at talking to people? How can I embrace conflict instead of dreading it? How can I be creative if I’m scared? How do I talk back to my inner critic? How do I know if it’s time to end a friendship? How do I manage uncertainty? How can I create more pleasure and fabulousness in my life? And why are all of these things somehow so hard?

Nine incredible Rookie writers address these questions with Rookie’s signature thoughtfulness, humor, and appreciation for what makes us human.

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This was a good introduction to the episodes and let you clearly understand what you were learning.

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Thoroughly enjoying this and even better experiencing lots of laughter and insight! being a biracial African-American non-binary identifying human I appreciate the relation between the speakers. However I experience a multitude of mental health disorders and find it disheartening to hear mental disorders being used as adjectives in this book. Terms like "that's so schizophrenic" or the repeated use of the term "crazy" are offensive to the mental health community and further perpetuate the demonization and negative stigmatization of mental disorders as a whole. That's the one thing that I would suggest be edited when going forward with other podcasts to be more inclusive to those like me with mental health conditions.

mental disorders as adjectives

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