Goodbye, Jezebel. Hello, Feminist Content Creators? - The New York Times

Young women are more feminist than ever, as are big brands and Hollywood franchises. But what happened to the online community blogs and zines once offered? By Emma Goldberg Rayne Fisher-Quann grew up with no shortage of feminist influences. There was her mother, who brought home a book about the problems with Barbie and banned the actual dolls. There were websites transmitting the wise and world-weary voices of fired-up millennial thinkers — the women’s blog Jezebel, the teen site Rookie. Now that Ms. Fisher-Quann is establishing herself as an independent writer focused on girlhood and identity, she wonders how her career might unfold if there were a more cohesive online community for Gen Z feminists like herself. “What I thought was so cool when I was 15 and looking at these writers on Jezebel and Bitch is that there was a built-in community,” said Ms. Fisher-Quann, 22, who writes a Substack called “Internet Princess” (with more than 72,000 subscribers), and recently started on an es

Young women are more feminist than ever, as are big brands and Hollywood franchises. But what happened to the online community blogs and zines once offered? By Emma Goldberg Rayne Fisher-Quann grew up with no shortage of feminist influences. There was her mother, who brought home a book about the problems with Barbie and banned the actual dolls. There were websites transmitting the wise and world-weary voices of fired-up millennial thinkers — the women’s blog Jezebel, the teen site Rookie. Now that Ms. Fisher-Quann is establishing herself as an independent writer focused on girlhood and identi