Things Worth Knowing with Farrah Storr

Things Worth Knowing with Farrah Storr

The Distance Between Us

Netflix’s new documentary Woodstock 99 recounts the 90s as a time of excess, rage and toxic masculinity. But is that how we remembered it?

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Farrah @Substack
Aug 07, 2022
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Party-goers at Woodstock 99

Recently I have started secretly watching old 90s programs on Youtube. I find everything on terrestrial TV so overtly politicised nowadays, that watching something as simple as Gardener’s World can feel like finding yourself in a gender studies class you didn’t sign up for. So I thought: ‘I know! I’ll watch some old stuff from…

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