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27Apr

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Queenie, The Story Of A Young Black Woman Living And Dating In London, Is ‘Complex, Funny, Broken, Fun’

My favourite fictional character: Queenie, a young Black woman living and dating in London, is ‘complex, funny, broken, fun’. Early in the pandemic, I looked after my niece because she had conjunctivitis and couldn’t go to daycare. Despite my best efforts, I caught it. My infection morphed into tonsillitis and I became very sick. I couldn’t read or watch TV properly – which everyone knows are the only pleasures of being sick. So I downloaded the audiobook of Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams and listened in bed with my eyes closed. Eric Nopanen/Unsplash, CC BY Before long, I found myself pausing the book to leave myself croaky, semi-lucid voice notes as I fell in love with Queenie Jenkins. (I should have known, in the middle of my PhD on rom-com, I’ll never read commercial fiction sole...

Framed As Young And Sexy – Powerful Women Heading Up Dating Apps

9Dec

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Framed As Young And Sexy – Powerful Women Heading Up Dating Apps

People are swiping on dating apps in record numbers and roughly half of these individuals identify as women, which may be the reason why the dating app industry recently assigned the top leadership roles to women. Indeed, this past year, the most powerful dating apps in the world — Bumble and Tinder — were both run by women. Whitney Wolfe Herd is at Bumble while Renate Nyborg was running Tinder. As scholars who write about dating apps like Bumble and dating and feminism, we were interested to see how journalists reported on these two women leading the male-dominated, highly lucrative online dating industry and we wanted to compare that coverage with how the CEOs represented themselves on social media. We looked at last year’s top 50 news stories for each woman that came up in search res...

What We Don’t Understand About Young People’s Motivations

12Dec

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What We Don’t Understand About Young People’s Motivations

Young people are demanding change. In the last few days, young Indigenous activists and their supporters blocked parliamentarians in Victoria, B.C., from accessing the provincial legislature and led waves of protest across the country. For some young people, climate change is urgent. For others, gun violence is a crisis. From truth and reconciliation to inclusion and diversity and mental health, young people are bringing awareness to societal crises and making headlines along the way. Historically, this is really nothing new. Young people have long been leaders and catalysts of important movements. Unfortunately, these change-makers are often thought to be outside of what is considered typical of this age group. Young people are often labelled problematic, selfish or not yet ready to le...

The Story Of An Eleven-Hundred-Mile Solo Hike That Broke Down A Young Woman Reeling From Catastrophe—And Built Her Back Up Again

9Jun

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The Story Of An Eleven-Hundred-Mile Solo Hike That Broke Down A Young Woman Reeling From Catastrophe—And Built Her Back Up Again

A powerful, blazingly honest memoir: the story of an eleven-hundred-mile solo hike that broke down a young woman reeling from catastrophe—and built her back up again. At twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother's death, her family scattered and her own marriage was soon destroyed. Four years later, with nothing more to lose, she made the most impulsive decision of her life: to hike the Pacific Crest Trail from the Mojave Desert through California and Oregon to Washington State—and to do it alone. She had no experience as a long-distance hiker, and the trail was little more than “an idea, vague and outlandish and full of promise.” But it was a promise of piecing back together a life that had come undone. Strayed faces down rattlesnakes and bl...

Truly The Michael Jordan Of Sexy Young Actors

10Dec

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Truly The Michael Jordan Of Sexy Young Actors

The ‘B’ in Michael B. Jordan must stand for “beautiful”, because he’s one handsome guy! In fairness, it's probably to keep him from getting mistaken for his airness, but that doesn't mean it's not true! People Magazine's "Sexiest Man Alive" in 2020, Michael grew up modeling as a kid, before hitting the TV screens in episodes of The Sopranos and Cosby. Still young, he joined Keanu Reeves in the inner city baseball flick Hardball (2001), RIP G-Baby, before he really became a star as the teen drug dealer Wallace on The Wire. Few remember the absolute A-lister had a long run as, get this, Chadwick Boseman's replacement as Reggie Porter Montgomery on All My Children but everyone remembers Michael's work as the lightning fast juvenile delinquent turned star running back Vince Howard on Friday N...

The Underground Railroad (Television Tie-in): A Magnificent Tour De Force Chronicling A Young Slave’s Adventures As She Makes A Desperate Bid For Freedom

12Feb

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The Underground Railroad (Television Tie-in): A Magnificent Tour De Force Chronicling A Young Slave’s Adventures As She Makes A Desperate Bid For Freedom

Publisher Description Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, the #1 New York Times bestseller from Colson Whitehead, a magnificent tour de force chronicling a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South. Now an original Amazon Prime Video series directed by Barry Jenkins. Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. Life is hell for all the slaves, but especially bad for Cora; an outcast even among her fellow Africans, she is coming into womanhood—where even greater pain awaits. When Caesar, a recent arrival from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they decide to take a terrifying risk and escape. Matters do not go as planned—Cora kills a young white boy who tries to capture her. Though they manage to ...

Sex, Drugs And TikTok: Keeping Young People Safe Needs A Mature Response

10Dec

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Sex, Drugs And TikTok: Keeping Young People Safe Needs A Mature Response

Isabelle Volpe, UNSW and Clare Southerton, UNSW You may have read recently that TikTok allegedly “serves up” sex and drug videos to minors. Media reports have described the video-sharing platform, which is designed predominantly for young people, as an “addiction machine” that promotes harmful content. In an investigation, reporters at the Wall Street Journal created 31 bot accounts on TikTok, each programmed to interact only with particular themes of content. Many of the bots were registered as being aged 13-15, including one programmed with an interest in “drugs and drug use”, which was ultimately shown 569 videos related to drugs. The investigation sought to better understand how the app’s algorithm selects videos for users. The workings of these kinds of algorithms are an industry s...

Florence Pugh May Be Young, But She Is Far From Innocent

10Dec

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Florence Pugh May Be Young, But She Is Far From Innocent

This British blonde made her debut in the film, The Falling (2014) playing a naughty schoolgirl where she can be seen showing her bra and banging co-eds in typical teen rebellion fashion. We get to see more of her as a sexy cam-model in the murder series, Marcella (2016). She has no problem showing her small, yet mesmerizing breasts while performing for a customer. She doesn't stop her hotness there! She pays homage to Shakespeare in Lady Macbeth (2016) as Katherine who disrobes in a sultry scene that shows us her sensational seat meat. In another scene, she undresses yet again and stands against the wall to let us see her buns while her husband masturbates to it off screen. We can't blame the guy! We get to see her right breast when she is in the bathtub being scrubbed down by a servant ...

Online Communities Are Important Sources Of Support, But They Also Pose Risks For Young People

12Dec

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Online Communities Are Important Sources Of Support, But They Also Pose Risks For Young People

Aristotle called humans “the social animal,” and people have recognized for centuries that young people need to be in communities to develop into healthy adults. The ongoing pandemic has caused concern about the effects of isolation on children and teenagers’ social and psychological growth. But while young people today may not be able to gather in person as often as they’d like, they aren’t necessarily isolated. They have long used online communities to explore their identities and conduct their social lives. They’re involved in anonymous hip-hop discussion forums, ADHD support groups on Facebook, biology class group chats on Instagram and comments sections under popular YouTube videos. There are many of these online communities, and collectively they cover a wide range of subjects. The...

More Young Adults Are Living With Their Parents – Is That Necessarily A Bad Thing?

12Dec

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More Young Adults Are Living With Their Parents – Is That Necessarily A Bad Thing?

When the Pew Research Center recently reported that the proportion of 18-to-29-year-old Americans who live with their parents has increased during the COVID-19 pandemic, perhaps you saw some of the breathless headlines hyping how it’s higher than at any time since the Great Depression. From my perspective, the real story here is less alarming than you might think. And it’s actually quite a bit more interesting than the sound bite summary. For 30 years I’ve been studying 18-to-29-year-olds, an age group I call “emerging adults” to describe their in-between status as no longer adolescents, but not fully adult. Even 30 years ago, adulthood – typically marked by a stable job, a long-term partnership and financial independence – was coming later than it had in the past. Yes, a lot of emergi...