Issue 1 | Winter 1996
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Premiere

Advertising: The Good, The Bad, The Shoot-Your-Television; Special Section: Sassy Sucks; Kids: All Talk, Our Reaction. Plus: Music Reviews, Books Reviews and John Travolta

In every issue

Editor's Note—Our original mission statement
Love It/Shove It—A roundup of the best and the worst of the mediated culture
Bitch Reads/Suggested Listening—Book and music reviews
The Cute Boy—An ode to John Travolta

Features

||| Sassy: Then and Now—How the most original voice in teen girl mags got stifled by a big bad corporation
||| Kids and Sex—The mixed messages of Larry Clark's film
||| Amazon Women in the Moon—A look back at the early days of MTV
||| Magazines We Hate—Esquire's Women We Love issue is, predictably, a gagfest
||| "Subversion on a Massive Level"—Gender as constructed spectacle in the little-seen film Sleep with Me