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Coming to terms with the f** word
As much as Gen Xers romanticize the pop culture of the 1980s, it's important to acknowledge how relentlessly homophobic so much of it was.
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Andrew Potter
12
O.J. and the Eclipse of the Monoculture
When people cheered during the eclipse, was it appreciation for the celestial show, or a deeper delight in a return to the forgotten world of shared…
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Andrew Potter
15
What's Eating Generation X?
We like to celebrate our status as "latchkey kids", but the neglect it signified continues to have profound psychological consequences.
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Andrew Potter
20
Drunk and Reckless in the Age of Boredom
If there is one thing that enabled a lot of bad behaviour back in the eighties, it was the almost complete absence of widespread parental oversight
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Andrew Potter
12
In the High Church of Arena Rock
Every generation finds the gods it needs.
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Andrew Potter
6
A Rape in Cyberspace, revisited
Thirty years ago, an online sexual assault challenged our very assumptions about the real and the virtual. With the rapid rise of the Metaverse, we are…
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Andrew Potter
13
"The last great thing this country ever achieved"
Canada's Generation X never really went to war, but we have a solidarity forged in the shared experience of the Canada Fitness Awards.
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Andrew Potter
17
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The forgotten history of Generation X
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