Generation X is not just a lost or forgotten generation. We are now an omitted generation. In a story that aired on January 11, CBSN completed omitted Gen-Xers from a chart titled “Generation Guidelines: Defined By Birth.” The story was based on a BuzzFeed article, Millennials: The Burnout Generation, by Anne Helen Petersen. You can […]
I Have A Dream Today (Daily Photo)
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. (My Lord) I have a dream today. –Martin Luther King, Jr., August 28, 1963 How many people are in the […]
Daily Photo: Bridesmaids Smoking (1989)
In the late 1980s, artist Kathy Shorr took a job as a limousine driver so she could photograph her passengers. Her photography was recently featured in an article The Guardian: The photos are a document of their time: people were smoking, smartphones didn’t exist, no one was taking selfies. “Nobody was interested in giving you a […]
The House That God Built
Smarsh and Hollis: Two Gen-X Memoirs
I was small for my age and rarely smiled at the camera. Not because I was unhappy, but because I didn’t know that little girls were suppose to perform like that I guess. Nobody in my family told me to act dainty. Plus, it was before all the digital screens that show people pictures of […]
Rare Pictures: Gen-X Seacoalers Harvested Coal on England’s Beaches in the 1970s, 80s
The men are taking young Simon out to sea to ensure he does not become fearful of the sea because his father was drowned three weeks previously…I don’t know if I should use these photographs or how I can use these photographs. I’m not sure what use they are.” Chris Killip, Photographer, Harvard Professor In the 1970s and 80s, […]