Trailer: Teen People

03/27/22 • 1 min

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In the year 2000, TEEN PEOPLE's publisher, Anne Zehren said, presciently, "We make celebrities real, and real teens celebrities." TEEN PEOPLE featured their readers throughout each issue, printing their full names, ages, and locations; making many of them pretty easy to find online today. Where are they now? Join me, Anna Soper, as I find out! Teen People is recorded in Kingston/Katarokwi, the traditional territory of the Anishinaabe, Haudenosaunee and the Huron-Wendat.

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Hometown boy makes good: changing the world with Dr. Ben Barry

"We made it, we're in the Ottawa Citizen!" Dr. Ben Barry is Dean of Fashion at Parsons School of Design in New York. When he was fourteen, Ben founded a modelling agency in his hometown of Ottawa, Canada. Realizing there was an untapped market for models of all sizes, Ben made a name for himself as an agent for models of all sizes. Ben’s agency initially supplied models for the local newspaper, which quickly became his biggest champion. Then TEEN PEOPLE gave him a call. In March 2001, they celebrated Ben on their annual list of "20 Teens Who Will Change the World". This caught the attention of Oprah Winfrey, who featured the 18-year-old on her talk show. As an adult, Ben shifted into a career in fashion education. He has a BA from the University of Toronto, and degrees from Cambridge University, where his PhD research demonstrated a business case for size diversity in fashion and beauty advertising. Over the past few years, Ben has worked at Ryerson University in Toronto, where he was Chair of Fashion, and Founding Director of the Centre for Fashion Diversity and Social Change. He remains an Associate Professor of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, in the School of Fashion at Ryerson. Ben spoke with me in the spring of 2021, from his country home west of Kingston, Ontario. Podcast notes: Ben is the co-founder and co-editor of Fashion Studies, an open access, academic journal, which you can find here: www.fashionstudies.ca. Find me online: www.annasoper.ca. This is the last episode of season two, and if you haven't heard my other interviews, please do! I would love to hear your thoughts on this project, so please get in touch, or leave a review or rating on your favourite podcast app. Intro music (edited for length): Fog Lake, 'Roswell'. Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0): www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ @foglake on SoundCloud Outro music: RomanBelov on Pixabay Teen People is recorded in Kingston/Katarokwi, the traditional territory of the Anishinaabe, Haudenosaunee and the Huron-Wendat.

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The one where we talk about reproductive rights

Jenny Mushkin Goldman was 17 years old when a group of anti-abortion protestors ambushed her high school, in the summer of 1999. TEEN PEOPLE magazine was there to capture the scene, and quoted Jenny in their story, which was published in the December 1999/January 2000 issue. More than two decades later, Jenny shares her thoughts on America's post-Roe future; in a timely examination of protest, radicalization, and the undoing of Roe v. Wade. Key themes: - paid family leave - Election 2016 - feminism and sexism - art history and contemporary art practice - young adulthood - motherhood - family identity and intergenerational trauma - reproductive rights - protest Notes: Learn more about Jenny's curatorial practice on her website: www.kingold.art. Find me on www.annasoper.ca, and on Twitter and Instagram at TeenPeoplePod. Music, audio and effects: Pixabay (intro music, sound effects) "Why we're here" Northampton Community Television, CC BY 3.0 < www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0 >, via Wikimedia Commons "Boston Women's March January 21, 2017" Victor Grigas, CC BY 4.0 < www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 >, via Wikimedia Commons Fog Lake (outro music) Teen People is recorded in Kingston/Katarokwi, the traditional territory of the Anishinaabe, Haudenosaunee and the Huron-Wendat.