the feminist librarian reads

Today’s teenagers are smarter, tougher and braver than my generation – and yours, too | Laura Penny @ New Statesman

Young people getting older is not, in itself, a fascinating new cultural trend. Nonetheless, the encroaching adulthood of people who grew up in a world where expanding technological access collided with the collapse of the neoliberal economic consensus is worth paying attention to. Because these kids are smart, cynical and resilient, and I don’t mind saying that they scare me a little.