Life Skills by Rookie is a sensitive self-help podcast
Rookie magazine was a sensitive, imaginative online publication for teenagers that launched in 2011. It ran everything from dreamy, nostalgic fashion editorials, to teenage diary entries, to practical how-to guides written by adults. Its founder and editor, Tavi Gevinson, closed the site in 2018. “ Rookie was for teenagers, and by that point I was no longer a teenager,” Gevinson, now 24, explains. But in the spring of 2020 she was stuck at home, relying on the internet for human connection. “It felt like being a teenager again: being grounded and intensely bored and waiting for life to ...