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Jill Gutowitz

Writer Jill Gutowitz's first book, Girls Can Kiss Now, collects personal essays examining how popular culture acts as both an influence on and reflection of society's values, and how it can intersect with an individual's own path to self-discovery. Associated Press reviewer Molly Sprayregen describes it as “laugh-out-loud” and “a thrillling excavation of lesbian pop culture.” Gutowitz will discuss the just-published collection with Christina Tucker (host of the Wait, Is This a Date? podcast) during a livestream hosted by A Room of One's Own; register here.

media release: A Room of One's Own welcomes Jill Gutowitz, author of Girls Can Kiss Now, for a virtual conversation on Crowdcast with Gabrielle Korn!

From acclaimed culture writer and queer social media pioneer Jill Gutowitz (@jillboard) comes Girls Can Kiss Now: Essays, a funny, whip-smart collection of personal essays exploring the intersection of queerness, relationships, pop culture, the internet, and identity, introducing one of the most undeniably original and relatable new voices today—perfect for fans of Broad City, Samantha Irby, and Trick Mirror. In these honest examinations of identity, desire, and self-worth, Jill explores perhaps the most monumental cultural shift of our lifetimes: the mainstreaming of lesbian culture. Dusting off her own personal traumas and artifacts of her not-so-distant youth she examines how pop culture acts as a fun house mirror reflecting and refracting our values—always teaching, distracting, disappointing, and revealing us.

Jill Gutowitz is a writer from New Jersey. Her writing has appeared in publications such as The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Vulture, and more. She lives in Los Angeles with her partner and a very small cat. Girls Can Kiss Now is her debut essay collection.

Gabrielle Korn is a journalist, digital media expert, and the former editor-in-chief of Nylon Media, an international lifestyle publication focused on emerging culture. Under her editorial leadership, Nylon became a fully digital brand with an ever-growing audience and original, politically-driven, thought-provoking beauty, fashion, music, and entertainment content. She spent three years working on Nylon’s digital presence before her promotion to editor-in-chief, working across platforms and growing traffic. Prior to that, she was an editor at Refinery29, overseeing beauty content during a period of explosive traffic growth and working to expand the brand’s concept of what beauty means to the millennial reader. She graduated from NYU’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study in 2011 with a concentration in feminist/queer theory and writing. She lives in Brooklyn and is the author of Everybody (Else) is Perfect.