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Introducing genXy
A place for the minority of the minority generation…
Greetings and salutations! And welcome to genXy.
I’m Dana — a GenX word nerd in the Pacific Northwest and long-ish time Medium and Substack writer. I run a couple of publications and am also a Boost nominator on Medium.
Meet Lawrence. He’s a gay half-Jewish GenX political nerd and also one of my lifelong very best friends. I’ve written about Lawrence and our shared love of the Magnetic Fields. I shared how I married him 18 years after he married me. In typical GenX fashion, neither marriage worked out. But we still have each other. And he always gives the best advice.
Lawrence is an amazing writer. Fun fact, he beat me for the “best writer” award our senior year. I couldn’t even be mad about it — not then or now.
Together we’re excited to announce our new publication, genXy!
Our aim at genXy is to explore the unique joys, pitfalls, and opportunities of our shared lived experience as the most overlooked generation–relationships, family, career, music, identity, aging, fun, all of it.
But let’s make one thing clear: not everyone in Generation X is genXy.
Writ large, GenX sucks. We broke for Trump 53% to 45% in 2024. The conservative Washington…
