I Was a Teenage ‘Rent’ Groupie

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Raise your hand if you're ready to clock out of self-improvement? ✋ Not the kind where you do things you've always wished you could. The kind where you feel like an unrenovated home that always has another project needing to be done. This week Megan Dalla-Camina writes about this issue for us. Read her opinion at the link in bio. Do you feel compelled to improve yourself at all times? Not necessarily because you want to, but because that’s what you feel is expected of you? If so, today’s story is for you! Head to the link in bio to give it a read and let us know what you think. All of you ‘Rent’ groupies (and any others like Jenny founder @lilizarghami who haven’t seen it!), listen up! Tonight’s the 30th anniversary livestream concert. We’ve linked it on our story at the link in bio. Putting it here too: https://jennymag.com/2026/10/22/i-was-a-teenage-rent-groupie/ When Kendra Stanton Lee was called into an ominous meeting with her boss, she did the one thing decades of intense, eldest-daughter upbringing had drilled out of her: she bawled. What her grandmother had said to her years ago had kept her from crying all this time. Read what happened at the link in bio. Happy Friday, Jennys!! It’s dance party time. The DJ has these songs queued up but he needs you to kick off one and only one for time. Which one is getting the boot to keep you on the dance floor? Let us know in the comments? Also should we have a Jenny dance party??? 💃🏼 On its 30th anniversary, 'Rent' still feels like so much more than a musical to Gen X and elder millennials. It certainly was for writer Blake Turck, who classified herself as an avowed 'Rent' groupie. With a one-night-only performance with the original cast coming up next week, she revisited her love for the show at the link in bio.