Tavi Gevinson
Tavi Gevinson
Tavi Gevinsonis an American writer, magazine editor, actress, and singer. She came to public attention at the age of 12, due to her fashion blog Style Rookie. By the age of 15, she had shifted her focus to pop culture and feminist discussion. She is the founder and editor-in-chief of the online Rookie Magazine, aimed primarily at teenage girls. In both 2011 and 2012, she appeared on the Forbes 30 Under 30 in Media list. In 2014, she was named...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth21 April 1996
CityOak Park, IL
CountryUnited States of America
I feel like a young adult. In high school I never felt like my professional life and my personal life were at odds, because my job has never been to be a role model for young women or teenagers.
If you are intimidated by the artists who came before you, understand you too have a place, right next to them.
My only job has been to say that you have to, try different things and let yourself become a different person, have experiences.
What makes a strong female character is a character who has weaknesses, who has flaws, who is maybe not immediately likable, but eventually relatable.
Some of what makes growing up hard for famous kids is that they don't have room to do immature stuff. I was really happy that I could go to school and hang out behind the alley and be somewhat irresponsible.
I think that everybody wants to be heard, and the easiest way to be the loudest is to be the hater.
I try not to do anything I don't like, so I stay motivated pretty easily.
Graduating high school was really emotional for me. I'd obviously made a huge thing out of what that experience was for me, and saying goodbye to it was very weird. So I had to be like, boom, onward and upward.
I feel lucky in that I don't really have to go to college to study something job-specific. I just want to go to learn about what is interesting to me and learn about the classes that you don't really get to take in high school because you have to take the basics.
I try to be very honest in my writing. It's amazing, though, to think that people are responding to what we do, but it's okay if they're responding in a positive way too, because I think just creating anything at all to put out there is a gift.
Oh God, I'm awful at sports. In gym I just try and avoid getting hit in the face.
I think it'd be great to own a fun concept store with my friends and just sell books and records.
I think it was my mom's attitude about art and being part of the narcissistic digital generation or whatever that made me think anyone would care what I had to say about anything!
The idea that feeling confident and feeling misunderstood are mutually exclusive really bugs me.