Gen X

Despite it being a leading cause of death for children.

Overthrowing the system with kindness? — I belong to Gen X. I grew up on a steady media diet of sarcasm and snark. We were the punk rock generation — anti-establishment, non-conformist, and indifferent. Of course, generational labels are ridiculous. While my age cohort has a lot of cultural things in common, each of us is…

A Gen Xer’s 30-Year-Old “Time Capsule” Essay — As we limp further into the Nineties, it’s comforting to see that today’s leaders are finally considering the leaders of tomorrow. Thanks to our perverse compulsion for labeling everything, we’re road-testing euphemisms in a desperate attempt to describe the children of the Baby Boomers. …

Antiques - I buy all my gear from the 1980’s. What about you? Laugh 😂

The whole world is settled, sedate, boring. I’m unamused – It’s no wonder I would drink myself senseless ‘bars of central Wellington’ I’m a bit more settled now, and what the fuck happened to Flossy? Hey girlfriend – your not better than me, and I’ve seen you do all the…

Does it seem like, more than ever before, there are major generational differences and these differences are constantly being emphasized? It has been found that each generation has a core value that can be used to reach each audience set. Boomers are individualistic. Gen Xers care about status. Millennials want…

The year was 1984. I was an awkward, depressed, 14-year-old middle schooler, and every day, after another shitty day at school, I’d escape into the magic world of MTV, until my mom came home from work. There were so many artists I loved fiercely— Cyndi Lauper, the Eurythmics, Michael Jackson…

Some have now gone away; some, for better or worse, are making a comeback. — The 80s were a time of change. It was the bridge between a much technologically simpler time of the 70s to the electronic revolution of the 90s. I graduated from high school in 1986 and here are some things about the 80s that I remember fondly (and a few memories…

Why Gen Z could be struggling with finding true love. — The concept of love among members of Generation Z is intricate and diverse. The term “Generation Z” refers to those who were born between the middle of the 1990s and the beginning of the 2010s. …