The TueDo List: 90s Style (Again!) + Career Change at 50 + Awk Summer 2021
And ukulele covers of Clash songs
THIS WEEK
📖 READ: Lea DeLaria walks into a dyke bar. The beauty of a “bulgy bit of belly.” When Mark Hamill is your first celebrity crush. Consider the wrinkle. Woman, priest, and Mars rover scientist. This is how we Juneteenth.
👀 LOOK: A look back at post-punk in New York clubs. 1980s club kid life in Manchester. “Should I Stay or Should I Go” — on ukuleles!
🎧 LISTEN: On Everything is Fine, an interview with the author of What Fresh Hell Is This?: Perimenopause, Menopause, Other Indignities, and You.
🤣 LOL: Welcome to the summer of awkward! How to bounce back into your middle-aged life after an 18-year-old asks, “Who’s John Lennon?”
🛒 ADD TO CART: Jewelry from the pronoun collection.
📺 STREAM
Tuesday: Simone vs. Herself (Facebook Watch) Also check out this profile of her.
Wednesday: Verzuz with Eve and Trina. (Instagram)
Friday: Rose Byrne starts a 1980s aerobics empire in Physical. (Apple TV+)
Sunday: Annie Murphy (from Schitt’s Creek) stars in Kevin Can F**k Himself. (AMC)
STORY: 5 Gen-X Style Staples I’m Never Giving Up
By Tamar Anitai
“My love language is the Delia’s catalog, my aesthetic is Blind Melon, and I have no problem looking like a 42-year-old Bee Girl.”
TueNight 10: Keisha “TK” Dutes
TK Dutes learned about boundaries at a young age, is on her third pandemic hobby, and has the best metaphor for middle age we’ve heard so far.
WORKSHOP: Change Careers After 50? Yup.
Nurse-turned-audio producer (NPR, Thirst Aid Kit, Hear to Slay), Keisha “TK” Dutes will break down practical tips and strategies she used to make the transition a success. If you’re a TueNighter this class is free; all others $15.
Play it again, TueNighters!