133: Crossover Episode: Meet Kate Kennedy

Dolls of Our Lives

Allison Horrocks and Mary Mahoney

Society & Culture, History

4.9 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2024

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

On this episode, we chat with podcaster and pop culture critic Kate Kennedy. Kate is the author of One in a Millennial, a fresh new take on millennial culture (that also comes out this week). We talk about Kate’s early interest in American Girl and the process of writing her life story (thus far). Kate shares what it's been like to return to her childhood faves and what she’s learned along the way about girlhood and growing up. If you have *~ thoughts *~ On Friendship, Feelings, Fangirls, and Fitting In ~ you will want to get cozy on a 90s daybed and put this episode on a burned CD (via Limewire, somehow) to enjoy Kate's wisdom.

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@bethereinfive

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https://bethereinfive.com/about-kate-kennedy

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https://bookshop.org/a/95526/9781250285126

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello everyone welcome to dolls of Our Lives. This is the
0:13.8	podcast where we're reliving the American Girl series book by book. I'm Mary and in a
0:19.0	moment you're going to hear from Allison. I'm coming to you to introduce this episode which we had the
0:24.5	privilege of recording a few weeks ago. We had the chance to talk to author and
0:29.9	podcaster Kate Kennedy, host of Be There in Five, a great pop culture podcast, if you've not heard it.
0:36.9	But we interviewed her about her book, which is called One in a millennial, on friendship, feelings,
0:43.4	fan girls, and fitting in.
0:45.9	And it's a really great collection of essays
0:48.7	and kind of meditations on her own experience
0:51.6	growing up as a millennial.
0:53.4	So there's great essays on, you know, boy band,
0:56.6	culture, college, going to college,
0:59.2	how the internet changed.
1:01.1	You know, if you grew up on AIM,
1:02.3	there's a great essay on that. You know, her own
1:04.4	experiences, her own reflections, slumber parties, verse sleepovers, and she
1:09.4	notes an important difference there, you know, all kinds of great stuff. I really
1:13.4	enjoyed reading this book and love the conversation you're about to hear we had
1:17.1	with Kate about it. So if you grew up a millennial this conversation will be for
1:22.2	you but it's also for anyone who's just past childhood,
1:26.5	who's starting to reckon with like, what did the pop culture we consumed do to us or for us? You know, how do you make sense of your childhood as an adult?
1:36.0	What do you look back on? What would you have done differently? You know, what do you feel
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