Young and free / Baby chimps
Today: Amy Chu, artist and publisher of Camoot.Journal; and Jack Pendarvis, an American screenwriter, author, and voice actor.
Issue No. 339
Girling and Growing Up
Amy Chu
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The Editors
Ace Goes to Hollywood: Episode 7
Jack Pendarvis
Girling and Growing Up
by Amy Chu
Last month, I attended a wedding and ate dinosaur nuggets with my high school friends before the reception. I watched my prom date’s baby grow up through Instagram posts. I have multiple friends who’ve lost their parents; my mom still calls to ask if I’m eating enough, or if I have a crush on any boys I’d like to play house with. At the advice of online skincare gurus, I began using retinol when I turned 25. It’s as if every milestone, conversation, and advertisement in my 20s is a reminder of my fleeting girlhood.
Maybe that’s why I recently gravitated to the music of the Linda Lindas, a young all-girl American rock band I discovered too late in multiple senses of the word. While growing up has lately felt discordant and off-key, the Linda Lindas’ 2022 debut album, Growing Up, sounds upbeat and bright.
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