Teen Blogger Tavi Longs For Another Sassy Magazine
LatestThirteen-year-old Tavi Gevinson of fashion blog The Style Rookie recently posted a plea: “I, like many, would like another Sassy Magazine,” she wrote. Tavi was born in 1997; Sassy ceased publication in 1995. So why does it speak to her?
Tavi describes herself as a “tiny… dork that sits inside all day wearing awkward jackets and pretty hats.” She’s seen back issues of Sassy and declares:
Sassy was awesome. It called out celebrities and politicians for being assholes, educated its readers on politics without sounding biased, and focused on fashion in a way that was unconventional. It was lipstick feminism for teenage girls, covering sexist issues but not discouraging having fun with makeup or caring about boys. It included R.E.M. records as opposed to the perfume scents of today’s teen magazine pages.
While Tavi is not old enough to have read Sassy when it was out on newsstands, I am: I remember it as being irreverent; I remember that it didn’t talk down to its readers. I remember how jealous I was that my friend Alisa had a short story published in the mag and I remember that it seemed moody and sometimes dark and sarcastic… like I was.