THIS YEAR HAS BEEN MEDIUM COOL
And the five most read posts from our first year
It's been one year since Emily and I have been oversharing like we’ve had three coffees and haven’t been outside in a week, and damn, that kind of time goes by fast.
We started with a vague plan that Medium Cool would be like the zines we made at the start of our careers: personal, honest, hilarious cries for attention with the hope of getting on a promo list or two. But this time from the perspective of middle-aged life in Brooklyn.
Thank you to all our readers, new friends, and old friends we’ve reconnected with. We especially want to thank contributors like columnist Hannah Meyer, and our guest essayists who have trusted us with their rawest feelings about their work.
Here are the five most read stories from the last year…
1. Politics often fail us, but our personal revolutions will always save us. Here Emily revisits her late mother’s defiant act.
MY MOTHER’S ILLEGAL ABORTION
My mother didn’t talk about her illegal abortion until I was nearly the same age as she was when she’d had it. I had just dropped out of college and she was worried enough to tell me her story while we did dishes in her kitchen.
2. Did you know we can be controversial still? Here’s the quiz that caused the drama.
ARE YOU GEN X OR MILLENNIAL?
That’s right, Medium Cool has done the work that sociologists and journalists never got around to doing: defining the beginning, ending, and in-between of Generation X and Millennials. And we’re doing it with one simple question…
3. You REALLY liked our revisit of the first NC-17…
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