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If you are a journalist writing yet another trend piece on unemployed millennials, please just stop right now. I can read your article already: “After a childhood spent winning meaningless trophies she didn’t deserve and being told she could ‘be anything’ by her parents, Jenny now scrapes by as a green tea mixologist and lives with her mother in a SUBURB.” (You were going to mention the trophies, weren’t you? They all do.)

The world doesn’t need another gimmicky, flat Millennials Live With Their Mothers Now trend piece. What the world needs is an article that shines a light on WHY Millennials are living with their moms now, the complex and almost unbelievable financial meltdown that caused this condition. That would require research, and verve, and tenacity because it is quite honestly the biggest story of our time. And I can tell you right now trophies for 7th place in the spelling bee is not the cause, and Millennials moving back in their childhood bedroom is not even the beginning.

After her daughter demanded an all-pink wardrobe, photographer JeongMee Yoon started exploring gender socialization and identity in her photographs. Pretty amazing. 

I was really excited to hear that there was a competition to redesign the cover of “Lolita.” I think that many covers, like all of these, frequently miss the point and are overly influenced by movie adaptations. Many Lolita covers give the impression that Lolita was a sexy teenage girl seducing an older man who should have known better, but gosh darn it, SEXY TEENAGE GIRLS. Spoiler alert: It’s not about that. At all. 

These are two entries from the contest. Initially I only liked the bottom one, but the top one has grown on me. It works because it contrasts the subject matter so well, and is deceptive in a way that works. 

(Source: flavorwire.com)

(Source: National Geographic)