“Ladies Can Kiss Now,” by Jill Gutowitz (Atria)
In “Ladies Can Kiss Now,” Jill Gutowitz, the “self-proclaimed overlord of lesbian Twitter,” takes readers on an exhilarating excavation of lesbian popular culture and examines the way in which lesbian illustration in media has instantly impacted the way in which she views her personal sexuality.
From a younger age, Gutowitz has been obsessive about celebrities, and she or he has channeled that obsession right into a thriving writing profession, sharing hilarious insights on the whole lot from the way in which Cate Blanchett’s outfits have made her gayer to infinite hypothesis (and hope) concerning the sexuality of her idol, Taylor Swift.
By way of the refreshing, laugh-out-loud essays of “Ladies Can Kiss Now,” Gutowitz proves she remains to be the reigning queen of all of it. Each essay expertly envelops you in her “celesbian” world. Endlessly participating the entire approach by way of, she demonstrates how popular culture has advanced from the “coded queerness” it as soon as perpetuated to a extra outright embrace of LGBTQ identities.
The essays analyze the whole lot from paparazzi photographs to Netflix sequence, skillfully speaking what the phrase “illustration issues” is absolutely all about. Infused all through these tales are Gutowitz’s extra critical (and highly effective) meditations on the struggles she endured coming to phrases with being homosexual and the way in which the celebrities she beloved helped her grow to be the out and assured lady she is right this moment.
The guide is an ideal mixture of humor and sincerity, of wit, self-deprecation, and most significantly, self-love. Gutowitz someway manages to not take herself too severely whereas additionally making it clear that her love of popular culture isn’t just a few frivolous pastime.
By way of tales of the whole lot from the FBI exhibiting up at her door after a tweet gone unsuitable to evaluation of 2000s MILF tradition, Gutowitz reveals readers how an important individual she got here to like by way of all of it was herself.
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