Gabrielle Korn
Gabrielle Korn Knows Her Most Marginalized Identities Are Invisible
A conversation with the lesbian Jewish writer on everything from inherited trauma to Coco Chanel.
When she was 28, Gabrielle Korn was promoted to editor-in-chief of Nylon magazine, the same day the print edition of the magazine folded. She served as EIC for two years, being the first out lesbian woman on the top of the masthead, and was “younger and gayer than all the female EICs at competing publications in New York City.”
Prior to Nylon, Gabrielle was the beauty editor at Refinery29, overseeing the site’s beauty content, and she got her start in digital media at Autostraddle, a queer feminist site. She has since left the world of media and fashion, joining Netflix as the editorial and publishing manager of Most, Netflix’s home for LGBTQ+ storytelling.
Her memoir, Everybody (Else) Is Perfect: How I Survived Hypocrisy, Beauty, Clicks, and Likes, is the story of her journey in media, but also of her own journey to find herself as a person. Throughout the book, she opens up about her struggles with disordered eating and how the body positivity movement isn’t always so positive.
In December, I chatted with Gabrielle about preparing for the release of her vulnerable memoir, being the granddaughter of Holocaust survivors, and why people keep choosing to ignore the fact Coco Chanel was a Nazi sympathizer.
