Sarah Jaffe is a freelance writer and journalist whose work appears in the Guardian, In These Times, Salon, and Dissent, where she co-hosts the Belabored Podcast.

In this interview, we discuss nineties culture, the paradox of loving the NFL, Beyoncé’s feminist status, the movement against police violence, the state of higher education, and how “punk rock and shitty jobs” helped lead her to left journalism.