[Watch] Sophie Gilbert: Girl on Girl

Watch Atlantic culture critic and Pulitzer Prize-nominated writer Sophie Gilbert as she discusses her new book 'Girl on Girl' with host Kate Jinx. They dive into the pop cultural forces of the late 1990s and Y2K era that shaped and warped women's relationships with themselves and other women. 

Casting her eye across pop culture of the past 30 years, she tackled everything from Madonna, the Spice Girls and the Kardashians, to MySpace, the #GirlBoss movement and The Simple Life.

Gilbert reveals the cultural forces that shaped a generation and laid the groundwork for the misogyny of today.   

In this conversation they both discussed how millennial pop culture twisted feminism into objectification, the insidious power of media narratives and the pervasive influence of porn, and her own experience of growing up during these defining decades.

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Originally presented on Tuesday 21 October 2025 by The Wheeler Centre.