The staff at Sassy had impeccable instincts for building its community -- and in the days when doing so required going to the post office to put actual paper goods in the actual mail, too -- and there's no better proof of their success than its first-ever reader-produced issue. The proof that some 80+ real readers made the issue happen is that...you know, the photos are kind of dark. Also that a lead feature about parents doing cocaine and the effect of their drug use on their 10-year-old son showing a few more gaps than we typically like to see in a piece purporting to be factual. But is the nitpicking by at least one of your co-hosts due in large part to the fact that she's jealous of all her then-peers who, unlike her, WEREN'T too scared to apply? Yes, yes it is. The readers bring us all the usual departments, plus a new one (Green Gossip) and the return of On The Road and a super-sized Stuff WE Wrote: join us as we leap in to the Teen Life topics of the December 1990 issue! QUICK LINKS 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our website 🖼️ Check out this episode's Visual Aids ☎️ Call The Hotline! Leave your questions, comments and Sassy stories on the hotline at 720-SASSY-GO or record directly on our site 🦋 @ListenToSassy on Bluesky 📷 @ListenToSassy on Instagram 🧑💻 Visit our website ListenToSassy.com 🛍️ Shop the LTS Store JOIN THE LTS CLUB AND GET THE GOODIES 📖 Full cover-to-cover magazine PDFs 💬 Chat with us and your fellow listeners on Discord 🐣 Get episodes earlier than the general public 🚫 Ad free episodes with chapter markers 🤩 Join the Listen To Sassy Club today! 💖 Already a club member? Check out the Pinned Patreon Primer Post. TOPICS 🎧 It Is December 1990 🎧 Feature: When Mom And Dad Snort Coke 🎧 Feature: Black Armbands And Bart Simpson 🎧 Body Talk 🎧 Green Gossip 🎧 What He Said: When Do You Consider Yourself “Taken”? 🎧 On The Road: Vancouver, BC 🎧 Help 🎧 Help For Him 🎧 It Happened To Me: Magazine Taken Over By Readers 🎧 Comic Strip: Stereotype Gripe 🎧 Horror-Scope 🎧 Stuff We Wrote 🎧 Goodbye For Now 🎧 Women's Section NOTES 💬 "Free Speech In High School" at TheFire ☮️ "From black armbands to the Supreme Court: Mary Beth Tinker and student free speech rights" at TheFire 🐊 "'No hoodies, no Crocs': Bessemer City High announces dress code requirements for new school year" at WBRC 👗 "Why dress codes are a violation of Title IX" at Lake Oswego Review 📹 The case involving middle school girls who were taped while changing clothes in a locker room, at FindLaw 🌞 "Revealed: The Worst Cities to Live in the U.S. for Your Skin" at Newsweek 📜 Judy Budnitz on Wikipedia 📖 "Miranda July: By the Book" at the New York Times 🖥️ Teresa McWhirter's website 🔫 "My Mom Shot Me" at Vice 🌴 The Again With This podcast on Patreon
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