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" Since the age of 14, I have littered - excuse me, adorned - the Internet with Taylor Swift analyses. "
Tavi Gevinson
Swift
Since
Me
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" I am a feminist - I just think the label reflects my beliefs - but, you know, we say 'Rookie' is a website for teenage girls, not a feminist website for teenage girls. That's not because I'm not proud to call myself a feminist, but when you're calling attention to a project, you can very easily be pigeonholed by choosing certain identifiers. "
Tavi Gevinson
Proud
Know
I Am
" I like 'My So-Called Life' and the 'Riot Grrl Movement' and 'Freaks and Geeks.' "
Tavi Gevinson
Geeks
Life
Like
" What feels most productive to me isn't to think so much in terms of how I can be alternative, but how I can be subversive in a way that feels organic, how I can connect with people, and how I can just be myself, which may be the hardest thing to be. "
Tavi Gevinson
Way
Myself
People
" I think what human beings need is to be able to laugh at the absurd, hold on to ambiguity, and learn to love nuance, instead of making everything one or the other, and structurally, so much of the Internet and online publishing doesn't have room for any of that. "
Tavi Gevinson
Love
Need
Laugh
" The scariest thing about receiving praise at a young age is the fear of burning out or losing it, or proving people right that you were just a novelty. Obviously, I can see mistakes in things that I've done or said and can see flaws in things I've made, but that's just part of growing. "
Tavi Gevinson
Age
You
People
" I think it was my mom's attitude about art and being part of the narcissistic digital generation or whatever that made me think anyone would care what I had to say about anything! "
Tavi Gevinson
Think
Art
Attitude
" Fashion intersects a lot with art and film and music, and that was appealing to me. I read a bunch of fashion blogs and wanted to be part of the community. "
Tavi Gevinson
Fashion
Art
Me
" If I'm thrifting, and I find this great dress, but it won't fit me, and I won't grow into it because I'm impossibly tiny, I don't want to let it sit there. I'll buy it and send it to a friend. "
Tavi Gevinson
Find
Friend
Great
" I created 'Rookie' because I read a lot of websites that I thought were cool and interesting, but they weren't for teens, and I wanted us to have something that could be ours. "
Tavi Gevinson
Us
Cool
Thought
" I'm really thankful for every experience I've had, even the ones that were puzzling or disorienting, because they taught me so much. "
Tavi Gevinson
Thankful
Much
Me
" If I'm extremely bored and I don't have a book with me and I'm being an obnoxious teenager, I'll read 'BuzzFeed' on my phone. But even that just leaves me feeling icky because I think for some reason my comfort zone is to just not really be in the loop about stuff like awards shows or things like that. "
Tavi Gevinson
Phone
Me
Book
" I love art, but I don't think I'm especially good at it. Fashion I think I could imagine, but I'm not really sure. I think it's easiest for me to picture myself in music. "
Tavi Gevinson
Music
Think
Love
" I understand that a lot of girls feel encouraged by what I have been able to do, but I've never felt like I'm a role model. I'm not concerned with building a great legacy or anything because I'll be dead so it won't matter. "
Tavi Gevinson
Legacy
Role Model
Great
" I try not to do anything I don't like, so I stay motivated pretty easily. "
Tavi Gevinson
Anything
Stay
Like
" That young people don't have valid thoughts about the world because they haven't been alive long enough is sadly a very popular and, frankly, unoriginal sentiment. When I think about that time, I was just responding to the world around me. "
Tavi Gevinson
Time
Think
Me
" People don't know what to do when writing a story with teens that takes place now - they think you have to make a bunch of references to Facebook. "
Tavi Gevinson
Writing
Think
Story
" I feel like, maybe in the '90s, 'Rookie' would have been shamed for trying to reach a lot of people or trying to be 'mainstream', but I'm so pleased that our readers are happy to see me promoting the 'Rookie' yearbook on TV or whatever. "
Tavi Gevinson
Feel
Happy
Me
" If my parents ever had to ground me, they didn't really know what that would mean, because I was inside most of the time anyway. "
Tavi Gevinson
Know
Time
Parents
" I think I surprise some people because a lot of the time, I roll out of bed and go to school, and it's like I don't wear anything that interesting sometimes. "
Tavi Gevinson
People
Think
Time
" For all of the continued awareness of systemic violence and oppression, there isn't a lot of talk about that psychological toll of racism, at least in white circles and white media. "
Tavi Gevinson
Violence
Racism
Lot
" My dad is an English teacher, and my mom is a textiles artist. My parents made my sisters and me feel that if we wanted to pursue something creative, it could be done. They've always been supportive of everything from the beginning. "
Tavi Gevinson
Beginning
Teacher
Parents
" I so think it's limiting to define an audience ahead of time. This is something I've brought on myself by being like, 'There are no 'real' teen publications! That's what I'll do!' But then it's like, well, if I want 'Rookie' to be successful and popular, then people will invalidate the realness by saying it's popular and mainstream. "
Tavi Gevinson
Ahead
Teen
Think
" Half of my closet is Barbie clothes - PVC skirts, cropped fuzzy sweaters, and velvet minis. "
Tavi Gevinson
Clothes
Sweaters
Barbie
" Interviewing Rei Kawakubo in Tokyo and John Galliano in Paris, both for 'Pop' magazine, were huge for me, not just in learning about fashion and writing but about how little desire I had to be a critic/reporter/journalist/commentator so much as a kind of travel diarist. "
Tavi Gevinson
Writing
Learning
Fashion
" Some of my clothes are things that we'd play dress up with when we were little, and it's funny that now I'm wearing it, like, as an everyday thing. But if I say 'vintage' or 'thrifted' on the blog, there's this community of fashion bloggers, and I've become sort of tight with some of them, and we, like, just send each other packages. "
Tavi Gevinson
Community
Dress
Funny
" I'm good at utilising body parts as letters. "
Tavi Gevinson
Letters
Parts
Body
" I would like to write a movie and, if it wasn't too crazy, also direct. "
Tavi Gevinson
Direct
Crazy
Movie
" I love 'First Wives Club' and 'Death Becomes Her' and movies about women like that. "
Tavi Gevinson
Death
Women
Club
" When you're playing someone else, it sounds so negative to say you want to erase yourself, but part of the joy of it is you get to not be yourself. "
Tavi Gevinson
Be Yourself
Joy
Negative
" So much about 'Rookie' has been very organically familial among our contributors, among our readers. Yeah, if I interview someone like Lorde, who I do know outside of work - sometimes I'm just so happy; it's so cool that this is organically, effortlessly, the warm, supportive friend vibe that we want here. "
Tavi Gevinson
Work
Know
Happy