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David Bowie was a Capricorn, but it's Gemini season so I'm celebrating his Halloween Jack persona from Diamond Dogs. Can hardly believe this album is already fifty years old. Gender-fluid glam theatrics, anyone? Oh, *every*one! Salon salon.com/2024/05/23/dav…

This Lesbian Fashion History Is a Perfectly Tailored Fit ➡️ tinyurl.com/eryznfuz With Unsuitable, lesbian fashion historian Eleanor Medhurst stitches fashion, gender, and sexuality into a perfectly tailored, comprehensive, and inclusive book. – Megan Volpert #PMPick

"As people speculate on Trump’s 34 felony convictions and how he seems poised to turn the hush money verdict to his own advantage, analyzing how he effectively turned Springsteen's work in service of his agenda may give us some clues." My latest Salon. salon.com/2024/06/05/bru…

When Silence Roars: lori tucker-sullivan's interviews of rock widows in I Can’t Remember If I Cried reveal life for these women when their husbands exit the stage, the music stops, and the silence roars. – Megan Volpert ➡️ tinyurl.com/RockSilence

I turned in a whole b(r)unch of hilarious headline puns for this article on the history of drag queening anthems, and we ultimately went with a very comprehensible-to-hets "slaying the charts." Happy Pride to queers and allies alike! salon.com/2024/06/22/dra…

The Art of Psychological Warfare ➡️ tinyurl.com/StoriesNewitz From marketing manipulation to all-out psychological warfare, Annalee Newitz is @[email protected]'s Stories Are Weapons clarifies how our world – and worldview – is seldom our own. – Megan Volpert

Naomi Novik's Fantastical Feminist Worlds ➡️ tinyurl.com/v8hcs4ph Award-winning speculative fiction writer Naomi Novik’s short stories are collected in Buried Deep, revealing the range of her fantastical feminist worlds. – Megan Volpert #PMPick #BestBooks2024

Alanis Morissette and the Division and Commodification of Women in 1990s Rock ➡️ tinyurl.com/WhyMorissette This excerpt from Megan Volpert's forthcoming book, Why Alanis Morissette Matters, leaves a most righteous “trail of carnage” in its wake. Why Alanis Morissette Matters

We can't wait for the next installment in our Music Matters series, Megan Volpert's WHY ALANIS MORISSETTE MATTERS, publishing next March. Read this early excerpt at PopMatters and preorder your copy today from your favorite independent bookstore!

Punk Is a Virus That’s Infected Everything ➡️ tinyurl.com/ycyp5jk7 Tracing punk’s mutations, Iain Ellis’ Punk Beyond the Music is a robust and kaleidoscopic survey of this once-outsider subculture’s continuing, pervasive influence. – Megan Volpert

A big thanks to Megan Volpert for her comprehensive (and positive) review of Punk Beyond the Music. popmatters.com/iain-ellis-pun…

The second sneak peek from WHY ALANIS MORISSETTE MATTERS (University of Texas Press, March 2025) is out now at Salon. Let us put the debate over "Ironic" to bed once and for all with a little help from Carl Jung, Roland Barthes, and Lauren Berlant. salon.com/2024/11/29/ala…

Women in 1990s Rock Music Are Far from Dead Tanya Pearson’s Pretend We’re Dead is both hopeful and challenging, and proves that the spirit of 1990s women in rock music is still alive and fighting. – Megan Volpert #PMPick #BestBooks2025 READ: tinyurl.com/PearsonWRock

Megan Volpert's (Megan Volpert) WHY ALANIS MORISSETTE MATTERS (out March 4) delves into Alanis's seminal work, Jagged Little Pill, and examines her career and life since. It's a staunchly feminist look at a powerhouse musician.

Joni Mitchell Inspires and Unsettles a Memoirist’s Life Reverence for Joni Mitchell is clear in Paul Lisicky’s memoir. So, too, is an artistic courage that both inspires and unsettles him. – Megan Volpert READ: tinyurl.com/MitchellLisicky

Happy pub day to Megan Volpert [Megan Volpert 💜] and her book WHY ALANIS MORISSETTE MATTERS, a great new read for all who loved to bump Jagged Little Pill in the nineties (and still do today)! #newbooks #ReadUP

.Megan Volpert on how Alanis Morrisette gave a voice to her fans’s struggles. lithub.com/for-your-own-d…