Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
These Books Made Me
English - February 23, 2023 13:00 - 1 hour - 50.8 MB - ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsBooks Arts Leisure books millennial libraries literary heroines throwback female kidlit girls classics Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
These Books Made Me... kind of upset to be honest. This week we're tackling local-at-one-point author Ann Brashares and her homage to pretty much everything that was wrong about the late 90s, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. This episode has everything: a book with casual racism in the second paragraph, really dodgy hygiene practices, flirting with your stepbrother, a love story that takes place internationally because it would have been illegal in the US, a heartbreaking cancer death, and more body image issues than Seventeen magazine.
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We cover a lot of ground in this episode and used some books and articles as jumping off points. Here’s a brief list of some of them if you want to do your own further research:
It was tough having a body in the late 90s!
https://annehelen.substack.com/p/the-millennial-vernacular-of-fatphobia
The OG Traveling Pants:
https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/04/the-worlds-oldest-pants-are-a-3000-year-old-engineering-marvel/
Please wash your pants (especially jeans you share with your friends for a whole summer)!
https://www.vice.com/en/article/pg5b3n/how-many-days-can-you-wear-the-same-pair-of-underwear