by admin on April 27, 2012
So this video is old. I mean, it was posted on April 9, which is basically a few days off from being three weeks ago, which is an awfully long time in internet years. If this were a meme ya'll be slapping the cyber space retard on the back for having a go at least. But this is not a meme. Not to discredit memes as powerful signifiers of creativity in the 21st Century (which is an entirely different discussion and sounds awfully too much like a topic for an essay I probably should be writing right now), but this video is fairly major.
Tavi Gevinson gave a talk for TEDxTeen at the start of the month on feminism. She's endearingly awkward and speaks with this American drawl that makes me want to change my high-pitched chipmonk tenor. As editor-in-chief of Rookie Magazine, Tavi's created a digital publication for young girls that focuses on real-life issues, and features contributions from the likes of Zooey Deschanel, Miranda July, Joss Whedon, Dan Savage and Lesley Arfin (!!!). After becoming somewhat of a darling of the fashion world a few years ago, the sartorial as ever teenager has shifted gears in her blogging career and leans towards a more feminist stance. She still blogs about fashion, but her posts offer more of a critique of popular culture's influence on fashion than a vomitrocious visual essay of whatever is trending on Tumblr. Did I mention she's only 15? When I was 15, I'm fairly certain I was smoking cigarettes in my closet and skipping school to go hang out at Maccas. True story. Sorry ma! Tavi makes me wish I was cool at 15. Tavi makes me wish I were cool now.
Anyways, here's the video. It's gloriously candid and cute but serious and poignant all at the same time.
