Tavi Gevinson: Creepy Little Girl

There’s something strange about being young and opinionated in public. Tavi Gevinson knew this before anyone else did—or at least before anyone was paying attention. She started a fashion blog as a middle schooler, then somehow became an actual voice in a world of adults who usually just talk at teenagers, not with them. The title probably references that uncanniness: a girl too smart, too articulate, too sure of herself. The kind of kid that makes people uncomfortable because she refused to perform humility. I’ve always respected that. There’s no worse curse for a young person than being exactly what they are without apology, and she seemed fundamentally uninterested in being palatable. That’s rarer than people pretend it is.