Life in My Pocket semaphores mostly joyful, visceral truths taken from Stingily's childhood diary, about girlhood as a thing to carry with her but also to revisit — girlhood as a place.
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"It's time again to reinvent what girlhood means," Dennis said.
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In many ways, Laura and Alison's "girlhood" made them vulnerable.
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Her third book, Girlhood, is forthcoming from Bloomsbury in 2021.
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Some people talked about this as being a crisis in girlhood.
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It's a small moment of black girlhood rarely seen in art.
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After all, the days of propaganda for girlhood are largely over.
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We find echoes of that same longing in Emine's girlhood reminiscences.
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This stunning collection captures the particular brutality of girlhood and growing up.
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Paris, away from girlhood, away from the white, enclosed quietude of my
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How do you combat toxic bullying when it's so entangled in girlhood?
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Now the craze is a national export, and a celebration of girlhood.
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Sisterhood is a terrain shaped by the ennui that characterizes suburban girlhood.
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I hope this film sparks debate about girlhood and mental illness and loneliness.
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Big Mouth season 2 is about tackling our collective shame associated with girlhood.
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She seems to embody the carefree Black girlhood pop culture has been craving.
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She'd spent her early girlhood riding along as they trafficked drugs from Mexico.
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I wish my mother would've presented these things to me during my girlhood.
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Of course, unlike most millennials, Lohan's girlhood involves acting in major motion pictures.
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Twenty years later, my girlhood was dissolving, with no clear alternative in place.
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Teri Shields spent part of her girlhood in Newark, cleaning other peoples' houses.
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Teen TV dramas have traditionally been regarded as the province of white girlhood.
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And like I might survive teenage girlhood, even if my survival was messy.
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She looks young and joyful; her knobby knees — her girlhood — caught in motion.
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Living with and beyond the girlhood you shared together is an unshakable loss.
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My experience of teenage girlhood was vastly different, growing up in Sonoma, Calif.
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My experience of teenage girlhood was vastly different, growing up in Sonoma, Calif.
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But the thing is: the books, shows, movies, cartoons, and toys of girlhood matter.
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She also found herself measuring her adult life against the expectations of her girlhood.
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The psychology of that makes the normal progression of girlhood into womanhood very difficult.
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Then they do a bizarre series of shoe-less movements from their shared girlhood.
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It's a record that brings to mind the power of girlhood, play and love.
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It's the message about black girlhood and self-love that gets me the most.
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JP: I went back to her girlhood, showed her pictures of her coed years.
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Since girlhood, I haven't lost that admiration so much as allowed it to go dormant.
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True Stories of Girlhood and Accidental Fame, which will be available from Penguin on Sept.
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A popsicle in wine dissolves as promptly as girlhood, so enjoy the pooling ("organic") sugar.
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Her first full poetry collection, "Extreme Girlhood," is expected in the next year or so.
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When they retreated, an expanded view of what girlhood could look like was obscured, too.
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You see it early on in the film, which is from Girlhood director Céline Sciamma.
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Dershowitz also gathered evidence from phone calls with Rebecca Boylan, a girlhood friend of Giuffre's.
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It understood the concerns and minutiae of girlhood, and reflected those things back to me.
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Her father — the "jailer" of her girlhood — sent them all to Santa Barbara in disgrace.
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Their soft smiles, synchronicity of feminine adornment, and youth offer a sweet stereoscope of girlhood.
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Usher was the boy of (one of) my girlhood dreams for all of the late '90s.
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The trials and triumphs of girlhood is fertile ground for narratives that counter popular representations, too.
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The heartbreak of girlhood isn't that it doesn't last, as an adult August comes to understand.
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I have battled the perilously close relationship my weight and self-worth have had since girlhood.
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Will the case of a prominent pedophile finally upend outdated ideas about sexually liberated French girlhood?
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Fritz's life from her girlhood in China to her longed-for yet uneasy passage to America.
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That's, like, totally the most perfect comedy duo to give this girlhood classic a fresh new perm.
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Almost 60 years after her debut, Ms O'Brien's new book, "Girl", evinces an enduring interest in girlhood.
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Another debut, the Saudi Ms al-Mansour's "Wadjda" looks at girlhood in a more obviously conservative society.
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Lindsay certainly flirted with the idea that she had based the mystery on her own girlhood experiences.
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What kind of woman do you think you can be, after missing your girlhood and your adolescence?
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What's best in the novel is its idiosyncratic vision of the meaning of girlhood and first love.
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The result was "This Is 18," a portrait of girlhood across six continents and twelve time zones.
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In Netflix's A Series of Unfortunate Events, Weissman regularly perfects this move as my girlhood idol Ms. Baudelaire.
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Bittersweet return to girlhood For many bacha posh children, becoming a girl again can be bittersweet says Hashimi.
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You know, some people are cool with their kids' ideas about femininity and girlhood being shaped by Disney.
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She was one of the few representations of Black girlhood in the children's TV space at the time.
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Shire is expected to release her first full poetry collection, Extreme Girlhood, in the next year or so.
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HEAVN tells a story about an enriching city, loved ones who have passed, black girlhood, and self-love.
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Instead, it's a vibrant and candid group portrait that offers up a refreshing, dynamic image of modern girlhood.
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But in "Another Brooklyn," the subject isn't as much girlhood, as the haunting half-life of its memory.
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"Black Girl: Linguistic Play" (2015) looked at the experience of girlhood, making a dance out of playground games.
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We asked young women photographers to show us what 18-year-old girlhood looks like in their communities.
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"Little Women" is a book that its devotees tend to stress as a defining description of American girlhood.
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There is an untapped treasure trove of iconic girlhood nostalgia just waiting to be exploited for the big screen.
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"I was not consciously thinking about these early memories of girlhood when I began photographing Girl Culture," Greenfield writes.
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Eighth Grade is a meditation on teen girlhood, but also on the ways we funnel ourselves into social media.
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Chicago singer Jamila Woods' 2016 album HEAVN was celebrated for its messages on black girlhood, self-love, and resilience.
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But it's also a story about true crime, social media, attitudes toward disability, sexual awakening, and a stolen girlhood.
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Pretty early on I knew that my girlhood was also wrapped up in the fact that I was Black.
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Joyce Kozloff's "Girlhood" at D. C. Moore is a wonderful show and a fascinating example of autobiography in art.
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Then came Ledecky, who was the key that unlocked the trove of girlhood memories that Olmstead had packed away.
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Joan Juliet Buck, the daughter of the film producer Jules Buck, and Anjelica Huston have been friends since girlhood.
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His mother, Madeline (Rees) McCarry, was a homemaker who influenced him with her stories about her family and girlhood.
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She studies histories of black girlhood and African American education, with special focus on her home state of Virginia.
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" Shazia's return to girlhood came at 13 when one of her older sisters intervened, telling the family "this is enough.
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The project of their creative girlhood has stalled, and life has become about making a living, or marrying into one.
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Moesha was the quintessential sitcom about Black girlhood, which resulted in spin-off The Parkers, starring Countess Vaughn and Mo'Nique.
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What makes The Beguiled so interesting is that it shows a range of female experience, from girlhood to middle age.
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Desiree Akhavan (from HBO's "Girls") made "Appropriate Behaviour" (2015) to look at similar tensions between girlhood sexuality and social conservatism.
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The movement's musicians, writers, and activists developed an alternative vision of girlhood—non-violent, anti-consumerist, and celebratory of girls.
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Elizabeth took sick and had a fever-dream memory of her girlhood, when she tended to her own sick mother.
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In it, an anthropologist returns home for the funeral of her father and is spurred to memories of her girlhood.
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Even though I don't identify as a girl anymore, I still cherish my girlhood and all that it taught me.
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She's at work on a true-crime story about her girlhood experience, which, we realize, forms the book's meta-narrative.
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Pusha-T, Unpacked Girlhood Across America, Captured by One Photographer Anatomy of a Scene | 'Deadpool 2' I Escaped North Korea.
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To have a young black girl next to the 'Fearless Girl' does that: broadens the idea of girlhood and womanhood.
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Céline Sciamma, the writer and director — her previous features include "Waterlilies" and "Girlhood" — practices a feminism without dogma or illusion.
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Reddit is riddled with requests from readers seeking books similar to Dessen's — turns out, understanding teen girlhood is a marketable skill.
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Holly Black's Tithe didn't originate the gritty urban fairytale genre, but it grounded it in girlhood experiences through protagonist Kaye Fierch.
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Here, as in Girlhood, the naïveté of the childhood depictions serves to deliver a very sophisticated — and not entirely reassuring — message.
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This new focus on the more real, intimate side of girlhood has been largely rewarded by viewers and corporate partners alike.
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More than womanhood per se, pink represents girlhood, and it can be understood as a gendered yet asexual marker of femininity.
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The princess culture can lead you "to the next phase, which is what I call the Kardashianization of girlhood," Orenstein said.
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The cootie catcher is primarily associated with girlhood, a gendered tradition passed hand-to-hand at sleepover parties and in schoolyards.
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Or maybe "Another Brooklyn" is the secret Brooklyn of girlhood, where young women find strength in the identities they develop together.
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Now, Mr. Parkes said, flipped eye is currently in talks with American publishers to print "Extreme Girlhood" in the United States.
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A few minutes later, I was once again on open water flying toward mainland Thailand—my girlhood dreams a distant memory.
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Girlhood deals with themes of friendship, adolescence, sexuality, and poverty, depicting how race and gender shape experiences within each of them.
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As for villains, I have always been guiltily taken — Catholic girlhood residue — with Satan in "Paradise Lost," complicated, tortured, verbally dazzling.
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This is 18 We asked young women photographers to show us what 18-year-old girlhood looks like in their communities.
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They doted on her during her girlhood in Port Arthur, Texas, and beyond, and she never stopped wanting to please them.
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But Thick is nonetheless a significant — and very readable — academic exploration of topics like black girlhood, black intellectualism, and black aesthetics.
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"Mockingbird" reflects the astute advice of Ms. Lee's editor to move the story back two decades and to focus on Scout's girlhood.
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Though in one way she had to grow up pretty fast, she decided to give herself the gift of perpetual girlhood, too.
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Noisey: 1956 or 2016 'Just in my room, just on my phone' has such a universal and timeless feel of teenage girlhood.
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Channeling their ultimate girlhood, Cameron Bure, Jodie Sweetin and Andrea Barber each donned NKOTB tees in the photo shared on social media. .
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But for a woman artist working with dolls, any sociopolitical critique was softened and complicated by the nostalgic recall of girlhood play.
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Girlhood is a time where we innately trust our bodies: Without thinking twice, we catapult our bodies into somersaults on a trampoline.
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As a result, it addressed some of the difficult aspects of girlhood in a way few movies had up to that point.
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Very early on in the film, it was evident that Beale Street is a deep dive into the experience of Black girlhood.
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On top of Harris's girlhood summers staring at massive clouds of flying bats, she has lived near Fort Worth, Texas, since 2012.
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This nondescript life of an immigrant would have continued, if she hadn't recently had news of Tuan, the boy of her girlhood.
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Far from the concern-trolling exemplified by Girlhood, Divines is much more comparable—thematically and quality-wise—to Mathieu Kassovitz's La Haine.
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How Tru navigates her alienating all-girls school and quietly defies the limits of girlhood is written with exquisite care and attention.
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The more I attempted to find my girlhood within these terms, the more I had to admit that there simply was none.
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Girlhood Across America, Captured by One Photographer Justine Kurland's images of adolescence are just as poignant 20 years after her project debuted. _________
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She said the age of 14 is a transitional age between girlhood and womanhood, a time that often evokes tears and emotions.
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"She had even committed the final sin, the unforgivable sin of ('negro') girlhood: she had cut off her hair," Ms. Collins writes.
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Starved for authentic portrayals of our girlhood, we can't help but literally see ourselves in at least one of the March sisters.
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For me, the film is a depiction of the complexity that exists within girlhood and the way young women navigate the world.
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They clearly had their fingertips on the pulse of '90s pop feminism — and on the intrinsically hilarious, poignant nature of teen girlhood.
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But social media has added a broadcast element to girlhood, one in which the once-fluid notion of popularity comes with tangible metrics.
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Michelle Carter, unlocks a brand-new conversation around mental illness in high schoolers, technology, domestic violence, isolation, loneliness, girlhood, misogyny, and pop culture.
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Each and everyone one of Otis' women patients, who only pop up for a scene or two, reveals something vital about girlhood sexuality.
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She also sleeps in a headscarf at night, a small detail that goes a long way to acknowledge the realities of Black girlhood.
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That's particularly refreshing: So many movies fail to represent the "girlhood" experiences that remain with young women who gravitate towards male-dominated spaces.
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"5050", arguably her biggest track to date, is a slow and soulful ode to Black British girlhood with a captivating video to match.
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But I mourn now what I lost, and it's the everyday experiences of girlhood I missed that really bring me to tears today.
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The most positive memories I have from childhood are those in which my gender didn't matter; the truth is, my girlhood was empty.
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Starring herself as Shirin, a bisexual Iranian living in Brooklyn, Ms Akhavan's film is a look at a girlhood extending into young womanhood.
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I have spent most of my life outside of the socially acceptable parameters of Black girlhood, an identity that is already intrinsically marginalized.
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Lisa Frank is as much a staple of American girlhood as braces, detention, and being crushed by the insane cruelty of middle school.
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On "Your Best American Girl," Mitski unabashedly discusses the American dream, femininity, girlhood, parental expectations, and racial dynamics, all in three uncontainable minutes.
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But she spent much of her girlhood at her maternal grandparents' vast Norfolk estate, Ditchingham Hall, to which she gave the pseudonym Beckton.
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These images look ahead to older women, then back to girlhood, to see how our dreams and expectations of women are made visible.
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Ask Their Dummies Losing Earth: The Decade We Almost Stopped Climate Change Celebrating Girlhood and Feminine Identity Lassie Got Help, Would Your Dog?
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Help Us Celebrate Girlhood Around the World Share a photo of yourself at 18 with the hashtag #ThisIs18 on your favorite social platform.
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Alcott claimed, of her own youth, that she "fell with a crash into girlhood," and movies, let's face it, are made for crashing.
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Without the usual trappings of teenage girlhood—the closeness of a best friendship, endless phone calls about nothing—school life was a desolate blur.
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The Black dad most suited for my own Black girlhood would have to be The Hate U Give's Maverick Carter, played by Russell Hornsby.
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The result is a combination of all the things I care about: young people, women behind the lens, and celebrating girlhood around the world.
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One reason is that, absent the levees of the closet, years of repressed longing for the girlhood I never had have flooded my consciousness.
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Ahead of Mickey and the Bear's November 13 release, Attanasio told Refinery29 about her "uphill battle" to make a quiet, specific movie about girlhood.
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True Stories of Girlhood and Accidental Fame is a treasure trove of nostalgia that will resonate for anyone who watched her movies in the '90s.
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I played the heck out of them, but also carefully and lovingly wrapped them up in their original packaging, and that girlhood fastidiousness paid off!
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Her own girlhood was spent on a moored boat at Sète, catching sticklebacks from the quay and playing on the sands of the Grande Plage.
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The report, titled "Girlhood Interrupted: The Erasure of Black Girls' Childhood," is the first of its kind to look at adult perceptions of black girls.
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The ferocity of Sasha Fierce and the girlhood of Destiny's Child shrinks in comparison to being the grown woman version of yourself, all the time.
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The piece is a tour de force on the order of Toni Morrison's "The Bluest Eye," the author's seminal text on black girlhood and power.
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City of Girls is true to its name: It's a novel about girlhood, about the relationships between women, about the women's art form of fashion.
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Filmed over three years, this lyrical and candid portrait of girlhood follows a group of seven high schoolers as they grow up in New York.
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Winning an Oscar for her frilled, caped visions of girlhood, costume designer Jacqueline Durran has undoubtedly helped buoy the current taste for prairie style dress.
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For me and many Gen X girls (and boys), the tomboys of the 1970s and '80s expanded the possibilities of what girlhood could look like.
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But then you get to the next few sections, where everyone starts marrying off and dying and failing to live out their ambitious girlhood dreams.
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There's a moment in girlhood, a brief span of time, when the idea of a "best friend" means more than almost anything else in the world.
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She had idolized Jo as a child, and as she reread the story, she found herself measuring her adult life against the expectations of her girlhood.
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But to girls and women who grew up feeling like they had to choose between either their love of gaming or girlhood, it means a lot.
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It's the kind of mystery that festers inside you, like the half-remembered memories of girlhood trauma, boiling under your skin in the unforgiving Southern heat.
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While we watch her navigate displacement and longing in the Simpsons universe, Lisa embodies this quality, one that is intrinsically tied with the experience of girlhood.
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It's a vision of white girlhood that locates hardship in an overtly romantic, aestheticized panorama of femininity, arranging bodies and objects under a fetching curatorial impulse.
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My sister had joined the middle-school choir that year, and in the autumn sunshine she sang in a voice that was beginning to leave girlhood.
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He theorizes such activity might be a skewed manifestation of the girls' own power — their nascent sexuality and maturity bursting through the cracks of their girlhood.
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I wanted her to join me in marveling at this series of world-changing transformations, which I knew were beyond anything her girlhood self could have imagined.
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Many feel that the "pinkification" of girlhood and the accompanying color binary—blue for boys and pink for girls—is old-fashioned and needs to be reassessed.
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Dorthe Nors (pictured) wraps bittersweet recollections of Sonja's girlhood on a farm in Jutland and her lonely, "oddball" youth around her driving lessons through the Copenhagen suburbs.
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These emerging artists are not only exploring stories of girlhood, but also pulling world independent film out of impenetrable arthouse aesthetics and back into the real world.
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Céline Sciamma's "Girlhood" brushes aside the archetypal waif-like Parisian girl of French beauty advertorials with four Franco-Senegalese teenagers from a council estate on the banlieues.
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I read criticism of a film called Girlhood by a black girl who asked why we black girls call ourselves brown, when it's a dilution of blackness?
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Like the italicized commentary in Mary McCarthy's "Memories of a Catholic Girlhood," it says to the reader: What you're witnessing may be a caricature of memory. Also?
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The site, which will remain live at least for the next few months, reads like a collective digital diary, documenting and celebrating girlhood in all its manifestations.
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Earlier this year came T Kira Madden's memoir, "Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls," which takes a specific look at young queer girlhood in Boca Raton.
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My girlhood lay dead in a cold blue room, a room I never wanted to revisit, but I woke up the following morning grateful to be free.
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Many English-language readers who pick up Simons's "A Foolish Virgin" will have read only one other account of a Dutch Jewish girlhood: the diary of Anne Frank.
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The Nutcracker is about Clara Stahlbaum's journey to a land of fantasy, her last grasp of at childhood magic as she toes the line between girlhood and womanhood.
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That's down to the show's success in its understanding of girlhood—not just as a prelude to womanhood, but an ongoing process of trying to figure yourself out.
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Whatever that girlhood fantasy about marrying a prince is, I think the reality is a combination of great luxe – they're bloody rich – and an enormous amount of drear.
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Erskine and Konkle also bring to life so many of the unspoken rituals of girlhood—ones that you keep to yourself or only share with your closest friend.
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" And yet, from "bye, Felicia" and "girl, bye" to "talk to the hand," black women are well-schooled from girlhood on shorthand ways telling them to "shut up.
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Finland's subculture of girls who ride stick horses long flourished under the radar, but it's out in public now as a national export and a celebration of girlhood.
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Today, mountain biking can help to counterbalance two of the challenges of adolescent girlhood: increasing concerns about adhering to gender and beauty ideals, and decreasing feelings of confidence.
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I'm a big fan of books that seriously reflect on girlhood, a topic not often touched upon in mainstream literature, and this book does so with great depth.
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She was looking to redeem a small piece of her teenage girlhood during which she served as a soldier herself and was stripped of all cultural "feminine" symbols.
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Cannon has made it clear — whether through interviews or tweeted videos of her and her young daughter dancing — that Blockers is an ode both to parenthood and girlhood alike.
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One evening before my mother came home from work I asked my grandmother about her girlhood in Portland — a lush parish filled with banana plantations, waterfalls, caves and beaches.
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Portraits, like Baldwin's Promise and Unbothered, are images of black girlhood that critique narrow beauty standards, colorism, and the stereotyping of black girls and women emotionally, physically, and sexually.
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The country's subculture of girls who ride stick horses long flourished under the radar, but it's out in public now as a national export and a celebration of girlhood.
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And unlike the last time we tried to scratch the itch with Wolfenstein: Youngblood, this time it really felt like a return to the very serious playfulness of girlhood.
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Peggy Orenstein has spent much of her journalism career exploring the cultural forces that shape girlhood, revealing her insights in bestsellers such as Cinderella Ate My Daughter and Schoolgirls.
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And while so many recent books have taken on the subject of "girlhood" and troubled girlhood—Gone Girl, The Girl on the Train, Girl in the Dark—they play up the drama of transformation more often than they address the ordeal of finding oneself in a suddenly altered reality, one that makes bodies objects of appraisal and potential violation and where there's a confounding mix of new threats and desires, power and concessions.
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In a viral spoken word poem about being a girl, 13-year-old Olivia Vella poignantly describes many of these tough aspects of girlhood, from cliques to sexist beauty standards.
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I asked my parents instead, even though the idea of being in my family's care filled me with fear: I didn't want to be reminded of my childhood—my girlhood.
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A bowl of Spam soup can't fix my girlhood lunchtime traumas (only therapy can do that, I suspect) but it could help change our view on the tinned meat. Perhaps.
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She felt the movie captured the confusion of her own working-class girlhood as a third-generation Italian-American, circumstances that eventually led her to write about her own life.
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Review: A Girlhood Interrupted in 'The Edge of Our Bodies' First produced in 2011, this coming-of-age story about a pregnant teenager lands uncomfortably in the wake of #MeToo.
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Comey's designs, which early on suited the creative Brooklyn woman who wanted to look equal parts sexy, comfortable and dorky, are sometimes deeply personal, riffing on her own girlhood memories.
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Directed by Céline Sciamma (Girlhood), it follows a young artist (Noémie Merlant) who begins to fall in love with the woman (Adèle Haenel) she's been tasked with painting in secret.
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But, much like the stage adaptation of "Fun Home," in which the lesbian cartoonist Alison Bechdel looks back ruefully at her Pennsylvania girlhood, "Passing Strange" took its strength from specificity.
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Naturally, in Girlhood, women fall silent and subdued whenever a group of men enters their space and the protagonist, Meriem, has a physically abusive brother who punishes her for having sex.
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She's not an e-girl herself, but can clearly see the roots of e-girlhood from the Tumblr aesthetic, where teens would share images of sad, pretty girls with heavy makeup.
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Alternating with these sections are glimpses of Anna's own life: her memories of her father, her girlhood, her marriage, her gradual comprehension of who her father was and what he did.
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For Bourgeois, clothes were tokens of the past, a place she often returned to; accompanying the installation will be a recording of Bourgeois, in her 90s, singing songs from her girlhood.
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I could feel Morrison writing to me, about me, as she documented the rhythms of black girlhood and the fullness of black community in America, in all its joy and trauma.
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Roupenian's stories exploit and invert a similar assumption of women as good by suggesting that there's something about the experience of woman- and girlhood that can be a horror onto itself.
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Today, some American Girl dolls have stories set in centuries past, while other characters are rooted in modern-day society — representing various walks of life, all through the lens of girlhood.
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It shows a multitude of clothed girls, some sporting identical dresses, playing and enjoying the splendors of a sunny, idyllic, flower-filled garden, reveling in each other's company and savoring their girlhood.
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The years-long passage between what, if you're lucky, is the bold and relatively invulnerable era of girlhood, and (again, if you're lucky) the self-possession and confidence of adulthood, is fraught.
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Through the lens of this tense mother-daughter relationship, Mu'min exhumes the often overlooked intricacies of Black Muslim girlhood, as we see Summer grappling with her sexuality, faith, and sense of self.
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" Gilmore has written extensively about female testimony, having authored the books "Witnessing Girlhood: Toward an Intersectional Tradition of Life Writing" and "Tainted Witness: Why We Doubt What Women Say About Their Lives.
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For every Wonder Years or Friday Night Lights, there are seemingly a dozen good-to-great shows about teenage girls transitioning from girlhood to womanhood and rolling their eyes at their moms.
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The risk paid off, and Olsson's days are now spent hanging out in a sunny bedroom studio with her pet rabbit and creating bold works inspired by hip-hop, basketball, and girlhood.
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Thank goodness for Mildred Taylor and Virginia Hamilton and Nikki Giovanni, the writers who came along and started putting black girlhood on the page in a way that felt relevant to me.
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She, too, was an embodiment of that tornado that is girlhood—that glorious whirlwind of silliness and sophistication that seems to dance and spin and touch down just exactly where it likes.
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The title track, in which Ms Bush drew on James Joyce the way her girlhood self did with Emily Brontë, is ravishing, as is her incorporation elsewhere of the Trio Bulgarka's interweaving voices.
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It may do us all some good to reconsider pink as an unironic color of protest, and in doing so, to help exorcise some of our impulses to denigrate the color of girlhood.
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While other coming-of-age films depict young girlhood with quirky levity, the selfishness of young girls rebranded as subversive, First Match distinguishes itself as one that doesn't treat youth with kid gloves.
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Pearl makes regular references to other books, and I clung to our shared favorites (like Dodie Smith's old-fashioned tale of English girlhood, "I Capture the Castle") as if to a life preserver.
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For years, I have possessed a suede jacket that my father bought with a bonus from one of his first jobs, and a bracelet, my mother's, from a girlhood trip to the Dakotas.
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No matter how much time passes between the gold-soaked memories of a girlhood spent together, the past remains stubbornly in the present, those scenes of happiness becoming reminders of what you've lost.
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With her latest film, French filmmaker Céline Sciamma (Girlhood) tells the story of an eighteenth-century woman artist commissioned to secretly paint the portrait of another woman, destined but unwilling to be wed.
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The 1994 adaptation of Little Women was the first (and only) time we ever saw our truth, that unique harmony and chaos of so much girlhood happening at once, reflected back at us.
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Women who make money by gaming and cosplaying on Patreon and generally building a career out of e-girlhood say they regularly receive hateful comments, even when they too are in on the joke.
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"To use a 21st century metaphor, I believe stories like Mary's offer a patch in the virulent social programming about white girlhood that American society has inherited from that time," Ms. Morgan-Owens said.
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As they clap their hands together or slap one another's hands, evoking girlhood games, they spin in and out of their square, sometimes peeling away into a single line before moving back into formation.
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There is as much affection for found totems of saccharine girlhood as there is anger or rejection, as much unsatisfied yearning in her distorted images of conventional femininity as there is trauma or shock.
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While acknowledging the stress of participating in competitive dance at a formative age, "Dance Nation" also highlights the surreal and exploratory dynamics of teen girlhood, as they play out in dressing rooms and daydreams.
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Sitting there, taking notes and leaking breast milk, I was reminded that Epstein and his associates allegedly preyed on the innocence of girlhood, on the essential goodness of children and their desire to please.
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Reading Toni Morrison is a rite of passage for a particular type of Black girlhood, one built on the purpose of rising above while still very much entrenched in the recesses of white supremacy.
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The study, called "Girlhood Interrupted," found that survey participants perceived that Black girls need less nurturing, protection, support, and comfort, and that Black girls are more independent and know more about adult topics, including sex.
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While the object of the Columbiners affections can feel shocking, they are simply participating in ancient rite of girlhood: a creative cultural production that teenage girls have been using to express taboo desires for decades.
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With this latest effort, Refn paints a lurid, confused portrait of girlhood and the fashion industry that is flashy, loud, and gory but unfortunately fails at all turns to touch on anything close to truth.
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On the Verge 5 Photos View Slide Show ' Nikki Chasin can't put her finger on the first time that she identified "fashion designer" as a profession, but she spent her girlhood in Coral Gables, Fla.
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But Amazon's reimagining of Peter Weir's seminal 1979 film Picnic at Hanging Rock flies in the face of this presumption, reading instead like a reclaiming of the iconic touchstone that explores girlhood through women's perspectives.
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Lest we think that that jaunt down memory lane is all one unending pop-culture binge in a marzipan-colored girlhood sprinkled with imaginary friends and effortless fandom, the story does take a darker turn.
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Basically it's all the wild stuff you read about on Reddit, such as masturbating to your friend's sister, screaming at your mom in teenage girlhood rage, and dry humping your first girlfriend during a dance.
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It's not until a few scenes later that we're cast back to Jo's girlhood in Concord, a softer, more amber-lit universe in which she and her sisters are beginning to chart their own futures.
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Dessen's books also have everything you need to understand the basic structure of teen girlhood: strained romantic relationships, tedious after school jobs, anxious parents, even more anxious teens, and the occasional aloft cup of Diet Coke.
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As Elena and Lila advance from girlhood to middle age, they face an era of tumultuous social upheaval — radical feminism, 1968 demonstrations, friends who dabble in militant Communism — and their youthful hope eventually turns to disillusionment.
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Female friendship rings throughout We Can't Even — Mean Girls and Girlhood (Céline Sciamma, 2014) would make an excellent triple feature with Frances Ha — and Frances' relationship with her BFF Sophie (Mickey Sumner) is that film's anchor.
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The series sweeps through the female experience at every age—from girlhood to wrinkles and white hair—blasting past society's injunction to age gracefully, or not at all, and if you can't manage that, to disappear.
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It would be lovely if we could sit next to the table where Louisa May Alcott is sitting because "Little Women" was a huge influence on my girlhood and our fathers had a lot in common.
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And while American Jews remember her with pride and fondness (she spent her girlhood in Milwaukee and spoke a disarming Midwestern English of pinched nasal vowels), Meir has remained an object of some scorn in Israel.
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Sciamma's prior films (check out 2014's Girlhood for a sterling example of her work) have been set in present-day France, each one focused on the lives of women whose stories aren't often told onscreen.
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It's almost inevitable that dying makes you reflect on your past, which perhaps explains why "Dying" is not merely a meditation on the present, but a journey backward in time, all the way to Taylor's girlhood.
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"Whether it's social injustices or school bullying, whatever the topic is, those are all very near and dear to girls' hearts, and they have been rites of passage to girlhood for over 200 years," Cygielman said.
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I mean, even my own jaded heart swelled over the montage of Danvers falling again and again, from girlhood through womanhood, only to get back up as the music soared and she bests her gaslighting male superior.
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In "White Bird," however, Grandmère — or the author — constantly intrudes into the story that Sara, Grandmère's girlhood self, is trying to tell, explaining what it all supposedly meant instead of rendering it in its terror and shock.
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We do know that Allyson will be scarred forever by her experience; that Karen's worst girlhood nightmares have come true; that Laurie will never be free of the pain enacted upon her by her would-be killer.
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She presents a portrait of emerging womanhood without eliminating the accessories of girlhood, graphically sorting through issues of sexuality, interpersonal angst, and mental health issues out of the material whirl, making serious art out of playful beginnings.
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A catchy and colorful hit, it screamed of 90s girlhood combined with the insolent energy that Odd Future had dragged back into the genre a few months earlier, and divided more people than Barb from Stranger Things.
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It's the dark humor part that has helped me create art dealing with issues of gender, politics, and "girlhood" and that allows folks to connect their own personal stories to the more challenging aspects of my work.
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An apotheosis of American girlhood, Nancy isn't quite an everywoman — we can't all crack a safe or pilot a speedboat — but she is an archetype, just generic enough for readers to imagine themselves in her sensible heels.
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While 13 Reasons Why does paint a portrait of a tortured girlhood, hounded by misogyny and sexual assault, even the Netflix series came under fire for claiming there could ever be "reason" for someone to die by suicide.
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At that point, I had been seriously working on a memoir about my girlhood, being sexually assaulted at the turn of the century, and learning what it meant to love my father who was incarcerated on rape charges.
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There was a word for you back then, mischievous in that one picture— when we went to the mountains, your body woke up from the mysterious illness—alert fawn, a boy body freed momentarily from a terrible girlhood.
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From girlhood to baby-maker: The key thing to know about ancient pre-wedding rituals is that they were far removed from the overt sexuality of today's bachelorette parties (despite TV's best efforts to sex-up ancient cultures).
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Plot: An elderly Margaret Thatcher talks to the imagined presence of her recently deceased husband as she struggles to come to terms with his death while scenes from her past life, from girlhood to British prime minister, intervene.
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A smart treat for more readers ages 10 and up, this gorgeously drawn book traces the writer's life from her girlhood in rural England to the age of 31, when she first tried to get a novel published.
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It opens with an adult Swift awash in the declarations of her girlhood diaries and rarely departs from seeing the world as Swift does, and I left it with a new sympathy for a woman who polarizes people.
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Her impressions of her mid-20th century Pittsburgh girlhood — her vibrant parents, "the dreaming memory of land," terrifying neighbors — overflows with specificity, but her distillation of the dawning of a child's consciousness extends the narrative to reach the universal.
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Writer-director Greta Gerwig made the film as an act of love, not just toward her hometown of Sacramento but also toward girlhood, and toward the feeling of always being on the outside of wherever real life is happening.
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The first thought is one of regret that Miss Dickinson did not fulfill the promise of her girlhood and make a literary name for herself, but, perhaps it is just as well that she developed in a different way.
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Lady Bird is an act of attention, and thus love, from Gerwig, not just toward her hometown of Sacramento but also toward girlhood, and toward the feeling of always being on the outside of wherever real life is happening.
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In her latest exhibition, Girlhood, at D.C. Moore Gallery, Kozloff juxtaposes her adult obsession with antiquated cartography with her own childhood drawings for social studies projects, revealing the limits of our ability to comprehend "new worlds," both historically and personally.
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After decades of cinematic depictions of white male teens having epiphanies, pining over unavailable girls, and trying to lose their virginity, these portrayals of (yes, mostly white) girlhood suggest a new way forward for the teen coming-of-age dramedy.
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Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan novels — four books that tell the story of two women from girlhood well into adulthood — have inspired the sort of fevered devotion among their fans that you might typically expect from more popular fantasy and sci-fi series.
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There's a hopefulness in these movies, in the way that Dunst is at her sparkliest and in the movies' idealizations of girlhood and pluckiness, whether in the context of cheerleading or of yearning for a way out of an oppressive household.
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She was a commercial pop icon, yes, but also a sweary, gum-chewing 17-year-old who didn't play up to the idea that in order to be a mainstream artist you had to live up to unreasonable expectations of girlhood.
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Francie — with her fierce and sometimes unknowable mother, in her allegiance to her block, in her ability, borne of necessity, to create better worlds for herself inside her mind — all of these read as markers of black girlhood to me.
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But for me, it was—is—Steele's vampiric, bestial persona that make these songs palatable, celebratory, even liberating, his sad green eyes the crucible in which the junk metal of goth girlhood was transformed in to something altogether more emancipatory.
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Her surname in her youth was Head, long before any "head coach" wisecracks could commence, and she was "Trish" to her girlhood friends, not Pat until she enrolled at the University of Tennessee's offshoot branch in Martin and found herself identified that way.
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"This starts very early on in girlhood, where actually sometimes being seen as powerful, as a leader, is discouraged, or this pressure on women and girls to fit in and please and be liked and not take up too much space," she said.
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Girls Against are teenage girls are doing the exact opposite of what teen movies (and probably your own, Kylie Jenner-based, mixed up perceptions of girlhood) would have you think teenage girls are doing (exclusively crushing on boys and applying lip gloss).
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Press coverage of Delia Owens since the runaway success of Where the Crawdads Sing has focused on her tomboy girlhood, her passion for helping African wildlife, and the pristine isolation of her Idaho home, portraying her as nearly as unspoiled as her heroine.
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But in the end, she offers an exceedingly rare window into middle-class girlhood in the middle of one of the most destructive wars of our time, and an even rarer start-to-finish account of the arduous migrant journey into Europe.
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At times more activist, it was only recently that Onomatopee opened up the regime of the capitalist high street through a range of interventions, discussions, and theorization and explored contradictions and oppositions by reflecting upon gender issues, contemporary girlhood, and object-subject relations.
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She said she didn't create the characters with female empowerment in mind but very much was focused on the point of view of the girl, because girlhood is when girls begin to get a sense of their own power or lack thereof.
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In a video posted in August of her getting ready for the first day of sophomore year, she wears a basic T-shirt tucked into jean shorts, a choker, and messy bun tied up with a scrunchie, the sartorial underpinnings of VSCO girlhood.
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The question, though, is whether the urge for (an albeit luxe version of) homesteading simplicity speaks more to a desire for an unfettered fantasy of literal pioneering womanhood, or the fantasy of the comfort of crisp and hardy fabrics of a far-off, preserved girlhood.
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Anna Quindlen's mesmerizing new novel investigates both, seen through the eyes of the indelible Mimi Miller, who narrates the story of her life — and of the assault to the people and to the land she loves — from her 1960s girlhood to the present day.
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It's only upon revisiting her seminal works that I realize how easily impressed I was in my girlhood, charmed by inelegant, poorly argued tracts as much as I was charmed by David, the moody, floppy-haired boy who lived down the hall from me.
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Seeing Suzanne's hair one day in Golden Gate Park breaks the spell of Evie's girlhood: In that moment, Evie realizes there is another way to female, one that does not require asking for permission, and she begins to revel in a certain wild unpredictability.
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" Rand's prevision of American carnage drew on memories of her Russian girlhood, first of the Bolshevik Revolution and then of the "transition period under Lenin from a primitive capitalism to a brutal Communism," Anne C. Heller writes in "Ayn Rand and the World She Made.
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Mary McCarthy's "Memories of a Catholic Girlhood" (1957) intersperses autobiographical essays she'd written for The New Yorker and other magazines with self-lacerating interludes inspired by an uncle disputing those essays, turning the entire book into a pointed commentary on the fallibility of memory.
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I tell him I consider it to be one of the most realistic depictions of teenage girlhood ever filmed, possibly due to the fact teen girls are similar to middle aged men in that they have the same world weary contempt for and distaste of society.
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Where to find it, of course, is on the young-adult shelves of every bookstore in America, which are piled high and bright with novels written by people—many of us women—who care deeply about how and why we tell the stories of teenage girlhood.
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Her 2010 album My Best Friend is You is one of the best manifestos of weird girlhood in existence, featuring the perfect song "Don't You Want To Share The Guilt?" which is about eating barbecue with an ex-lover and helping them put on a Band-Aid.
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Her confidence about her girlhood, and the pleasure she takes in it, as well as the way she stands her ground when dealing with the hurtful rejection of schoolyard bullies, reveal that she possesses a kind of resilience that may serve her well in uncertain times.
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Author of several bestselling books on different aspects of girlhood, including Cinderella Ate My Daughter (about girlie-girl culture) and Schoolgirls (about the confidence gap), Orenstein is a mother herself, and approaches the topic of sex among teen girls as a curious, concerned, and, yes, "cool" mom.
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Rebecca, Dounia, and Maïmouna are in vibrant contradiction not only with female protagonists we're accustomed to seeing in gangster movies but also with other fictional characters, namely women from the banlieues as imagined by media on the left and right and by films like Céline Sciamma's Girlhood.
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She said while building up our girls with self-confidence and assertiveness and encouraging them to lean together as they work their way through girlhood will help raise empowered young women, it is also essential that we take a look at how we raise our boys.
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I wondered, as I looked at these girlhood snapshots — of her grimacing for the camera in plastic vampire teeth, or lying facedown in a bank of snow — whether my perception was being manipulated by that sweet smell, which primes us to feel happy and at peace.
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The absolute truths of my girlhood crumbled when I watched Carl Sagan's 13-part "Cosmos" series in graduate school — a program that included an overview of evolution which made it verboten for me as a kid, but whose logic made irrefutable sense to me as an adult.
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The Ellie-centric Left Behind DLC still stands out in my memory as one of the most impactful experiences I've ever had in games, specifically because it gave a story about girlhood the same care and reverence as a story about a conventional video game protagonist like Joel.
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Her exhibition at ICA Miami, Life in My Pocket, is a simulacrum of childhood, and of Stingily's girlhood specifically: "Fences" (2018), two entryway chain-link fences, imply an opening but also a border; the looped telephone cords of "Double Dutchess" (2018) are perfect materials, Stingily said, for jumping rope.
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We laugh, too, because we recognize a fundamental truth in that girlhood memory: Every person who wishes to create art that has meaning must face the Holy Ghost, metaphorically at least; she must struggle with whatever she feels called upon to create, the thing that wishes to inhabit her.
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The experience made Dern look differently at her role in "Smooth Talk," Joyce Chopra's brilliant evocation of teenage girlhood from 1985, particularly the scene in which her character challenges an older man who shows up at her door and asks her to go for a ride in his car.
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Not only was Elsa no longer that cool, but also I thought we had successfully navigated past the sparkly, frilly land mines of early girlhood with progressive schooling and the sensible, Old World charm of Peppa Pig, who was only, by an unfortunate circumstance of birth, colored pink.
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Like Daughters of Eve before it, Lois Duncan's Down a Dark Hall is an expertly executed parable of the terror of teenage girlhood, when adults simply don't understand and refuse to listen and the most valuable thing about you is your unspoiled youth and your easily influenced mind.
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In this way, Family fits in among the recent string of movies and TV shows, like Eighth Grade and PEN15, that give accurate depictions of girlhood as it is — not as it is on TV. Catch Family, which was written and directed by Laura Steinel, in theaters beginning April 19.
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Written by I. Marlene King and directed by Lesli Linka Glatter, the coming-of-age tale deals with the fundamentals of late girlhood, including body image, emerging sexuality, and friendship, treating them with the same gravitas as more mature themes — death doesn't get special treatment over the drama of budding breasts.
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The Virgin Suicides (713) dealt with girlhood sexuality; Lost in Translation (2003) depicted an alienation very specific to your 20s; Marie Antoinette (2006) was about a literal teenage queen; Somewhere (2010) explored the quiet loneliness of Hollywood childhoods; The Bling Ring (2013) was a frenzied deep dive into teenage consumerism.
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In that instant, she's taken all the way back to her girlhood, before Adam, before Jackie, before her infinitely patient dark-haired father taught her to balance clutch and accelerator and work her way through the gears in a smooth, mechanical succession that opened up a whole new world to her.
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Premiering last night as the kickoff to the national Black Girls Movement conference currently taking place at Columbia University, Picturing Black Girlhood is a limited, three-day exhibition being held in New York City's RawSpace Gallery featuring 18 different photographers capturing what it means to be a black girl in America today.
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Six decades after her own Catholic girlhood, in Brooklyn ("We were not particularly devout," she says of her family), she has engaged personally with about two hundred claimants, either face to face, on the phone, or via Skype, doing the work of listening and reflecting that the bishops have struggled to perform credibly.
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It would be easier to say Girlhood and Divines simply depict different sides of the same experience if the young women in Divines weren't so vivid and full of personality compared to Girlhood's underdeveloped sketches, if Benyamina's camera didn't gaze into the souls of the characters while Sciamma's just stares at their bodies.
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Even if you haven&apost lived as a middle schooler in the time of YouTube videos or the pervasive use of the internet, even if you haven&apost experienced the joys and pains of American girlhood firsthand, at the heart of the film is an experience that we can all relate to.
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We accompany her through her girlhood amid Damascene streets that have since been destroyed by war, to buy booza, a traditional type of ice cream, to go to swimming practice at a sports complex (we later watch a rocket-propelled grenade fall through the ceiling into the pool seconds after she's emerged from it).
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Fortunately, there are much better films in this showcase of the generation that op-ed pages love to harangue — movies as different as Richard Linklater's decade-spanning "Boyhood" (on Saturday) and Céline Sciamma's French youth portrait "Girlhood" (on Saturday and Monday); Kenneth Lonergan's "Margaret" (on Sunday), a "teen epic" (his description) infused with post-Sept.
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Growing up as a (rich, white) girl in the 1980s and '90s was to be the target of a mind-blowing amount of propaganda related to girlhood: Being a girl was great and fun and sparkly and magic and a superpower and also completely ordinary and normal and nothing to worry about at all.
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An early number features both Shelly's hallucination of the alternate young Maura who transitioned as an adolescent girl, and Shelly's own adolescent self; it's a song about what Shelly and Maura could have been if they were girlhood friends instead of whatever they turned out to be, and it roils with thwarted potential and might-have-beens.
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Even without living your own middle school life in the time of YouTube videos or the pervasive use of the internet; without experiencing the joys and pains of American girlhood firsthand; without having a similar sort of loosey-goosey relationship with one's parents, at the heart of the film is an experience that we all can relate to.
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That kind of consonance is a big part of why I read novels or sit in theaters, now that the season of girlhood imaginings is well in my past and the singular experiences of women — of a lone woman, arbiter of her own plot — are being heard, in books and television, onstage and, to a lesser extent, in films.
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There's a flash of Nancy falling down a set of stairs — we know it's Nancy because any True Blood fan can recognize Anna Paquin in anguish — there's a quick scene of a younger Grace playing a girlhood marriage-predicting game with a friend, another of Grace screaming in an asylum, and a very quick look at a man apparently axing someone's bloody leg.
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When you think about the fact that their relationship to slavery, to slave ownership in particular, begins in infancy, in girlhood, what you begin to realize is that their very identities as white girls, as white Southerners, as white women, is intricately tied to not only ownership of enslaved people but also the control of enslaved people, the management of enslaved people.
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Among those who grew up taking yellow cabs across the Upper East Side to high school and playing hooky on the steps of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, there was a sense of having lost a girlhood friend: the woman who created the glossy handbags that became a talisman of almost-adulthood and the sine qua non of belonging to the city's inner circle.
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"If we find anything distressing about the themes or subject matter not being exactly new, it's that the experience of womanhood/girlhood (biologically, mentally, emotionally, aesthetically) hasn't really changed," said Mahan in our interview, continuing: The needle hasn't moved all that much since we threw out our egalitarian societal leanings thousands of years ago and got into the agricultural revolution and all the concepts of ownership that went with it.
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In another world, perhaps she would go off on a champagne-coated tangent about how tragic it is that mankind has forced her to see girls in this way, not for their innate goodness, not for their girlhood, but for the way that their hair looks and the fact that so-and-so didn't put enough lash glue on, and now her falsies are somewhere underneath all of this tulle.
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We take it because — no, but for a lot of people... WM: In 1985... JW: That is a real representation of black girlhood and black femininity and there are parts of it that are uncomfortable to watch and parts of it that speak to the black female experience in uncomfortable ways, and when you don't have anything else, you'll take what you can get, and that's what we're looking at.
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That's not because Atwood is bad at writing teenagers — her 1988 novel Cat's Eye demonstrates that she has always had a sharp eye for the vicious politics of girlhood friendships, and when she takes the time to put that eye to work on Agnes's shifting social status at school, it's clear she's lost none of her talents — but because Agnes and Daisy are carrying the burden of the plot.
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Craig Zahler, "Bone Tomahawk" Best international film "Son of Saul" (Hungary) (WINNER)"Embrace of the Serpent" (Colombia)"Girlhood" (France)"Mustang" (France, Turkey)"A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence" (Sweden) Best editing Tom McArdle, "Spotlight" (WINNER)Ronald Bronstein and Benny Safdie, "Heaven Knows What"Nathan Nugent, "Room"Julio C. Perez IV, "It Follows"Kristan Sprague, "Manos Sucias" Robert Altman Award Given to the film's director, casting director and ensemble cast.
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In a passage of agonizing beauty, she notes how far she felt she'd travelled from the religion that had infused her girlhood: Left behind by the homily and miles away from the other churchgoers, whose minds, at least from where I sat, appeared to be actively trailing the minister's words, hearing them and chuckling or murmuring, or merely nodding to themselves as the meaning sunk in, I realized I had no idea what the story was that I was part of.
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But on adult women, historical dressing and the comfort of special occasion childhood clothing can be a test in fantasy, read in a way that brushes up close to costume and weaponizes the naiveté of girlhood and modesty (in a way, similar to Courtney Love's "kinderwhore" look), bringing the wearer into an arena of the perverse or gothic, sitting closer to the girls in Picnic in Hanging Rock or the group of Civil War-era women in Sofia Coppola's remake of The Beguiled, whose faded petticoated pastel finery masks dark impulses for sex and murder.
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