Everything I Need I Get from You: How Fangirls Created the Internet as We Know It

by Kaitlyn Tiffany

If it so happens that we arrive at a dystopian future in which always-on screens are embedded directly into our retinas, I’ll spend every crowded train ride and mandatory all-hands meeting and one-year-old’s birthday party washing my eyes with “We took a chonce.”

Screaming at pop music is not direct action, and screaming does not make a person a revolutionary, or even resistant, but what screaming can and does do is punctuate prolonged periods of silence.