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# It's Gonna Be the Month of Judy Blume
- URL: https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/its-gonna-be-the-month-of-judy-blume-03-2023/
- Published: 2023-03-31T14:00:20.000Z
- Updated: 2023-03-30T23:40:58.000Z
- Description: Revel in it!
- Author: Heather
- Tags: fugs, Variety, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-10-07 08:22

Judy Blume -- who is now 85 and the owner of a bookstore in Key West -- is such a seminal, beloved figure in my literary life, I can't imagine that there would be a generation that might not have been touched by her work. And hopefully now I won't have to: *Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret* is finally coming to the screen, with big names like Rachel McAdams and Kathy Bates anchoring it, produced by James L. Brooks, and written and directed by Kelly Fremon Craig (*Edge of Seventeen*, starring Hailee Steinfeld and Haley Lu Richardson, which I liked). At the very least, I hope the movie drives girls toward the original book. But it'd be great if it does gangbusters and kindles a greater interest in Hollywood for important stories about girls and young women.

Everyone I know in my demographic has specific memories of MULTIPLE Judy Blume books. I read *Forever* probably earlier than I should have; it was the first book I'd ever encountered that described a penis, or sex, and I just COULD NOT picture it. The whole thing sounded absurdly foreign to me, and the fact that the boy had a mustache\*\* was just... no. But reading it made me feel impossibly grown-up, even if I didn't understand it. And obviously, to this day, I can hear in my head the chant, "We must! We must! We must increase our bust!" And -- I'm pretty sure I've told this story before -- the Fudge books were the first ones where I saw the word "gross" written out. For some reason I had only ever spelled it in my head, and I thought it was spelled "groase," and that "gross" was pronounced to rhyme with "moss" and was some kind of synonym. I don't know, y'all. I probably misread "grease" in a book somewhere along the line. And I read and reread *Just As Long As We're Together* until it fell apart; it's about a tight friendship that slowly falls apart, for a number of reasons, including a new girl and the fact that one of them starts dating a guy with -- gasp -- hair on his legs.

Anyhoo, in addition to Margaret, coming out at the end of April, there's a documentary called *Judy Blume Forever* dropping on Amazon Prime on April 21\. [*Variety* did a long chat with Jud](https://variety.com/2023/film/features/judy-blume-documentary-movie-1235566030/?ref=go-fug-yourself.ghost.io)y, and it's delightful, as you might imagine. She looks wonderful on this cover. And I hope, one way or another, Judy Blume truly IS forever.

*\*\* Mara Brock Akil, of Girlfriends and Being Mary Jane, is apparently developing this one. I hope she edits out the mustache.*

###### \[Photo: Celeste Sloman for Variety; story by Selome Hailu\]