Girls Can Kiss Now is a brilliant and humorous collection of personal essays on growing up with the internet, exploring one's queerness, living in LA, and how pop culture intersects with all these faucets. Jill Gutowitz offers sharp observations and witty comments on the impacts of movies and TV series that lack lesbian representation or, even worse, propagate the harmful stereotypes of gender norms.

I've read a couple of pop culture criticism pieces, and the topics in Girls Can Kiss Now are incredibly relatable because of my familiarity with pop culture after the 2000s. It's also illuminating to learn about misogynism in entertainment masquerading as cultural norms and the harmful effects on one's gender identity and sexuality from, dare I say, the queer eye. The recurring references to Lindsay Lohan, Britney Spears, and Taylor Swift are fascinating to read. Especially for Swifties, Girls Can Kiss Now offers an exciting point of view for those not familiar with queer Twitter. I recommend this book to those interested in learning more about the intersection between pop culture and gender studies.