Jill Gutowitz, the 'self-proclaimed overlord of lesbian Twitter,' takes readers on a thrilling excavation of lesbian pop culture and examines the way lesbian representation in media has directly impacted the way she views her own sexuality. From a young age, Gutowitz has been obsessed with celebrities, and she has channeled that obsession into a thriving writing career, sharing hilarious insights.

Where queerness and pop culture meet, you will find writer Jill Gutowitz. And it's that intersection she deftly explores in her debut book...with a sharp wit and an even sharper pen. Between every one-liner and guffaw, Gutowitz delivers not just herself, but universal truths everyone can relate to.

Gutowitz’s debut collection of essays is witty and wonderfully woven together.

The personal essays in Gutowitz’s first book examine pop culture through a lens of evolving lesbian identity and range in tone from self-deprecating snark to cotton-candy light to truly profound.

At its best, the prose shines with humor, vulnerability, and poignancy. Particularly noteworthy is the chapter detailing Gutowitz’s experience with sexual assault, which is written in the form of a letter to her past self, both formally inventive and searingly personal. Unfortunately, the author’s tendency to consistently center Whiteness and to avoid intersectional analysis makes the book feel somewhat superficial and outdated. A witty essay collection about pop culture and queerness that privileges Whiteness to its disadvantage..

Journalist Gutowitz debuts with an incisive and funny collection of essays on coming of age as a queer woman in the early 2000s.