[bctt tweet=”Girlhood asserts itself across this collection as beautifully complicated and varied, synonymous with infinite possibility…”]“In April 2015, we asked girls to send us creative work that reflects on what girlhood means to them: how they might define girlhood, how their girlhood might define (or not define) them, reflections on their social position as a girl, and the connection or disconnection they might feel to female communities. Then we asked rising and established female writers to read these pieces and respond with their own work. A collaborative conversation emerged from these exchanges—spanning various generations, genres, forms, identities, and ideas—beginning from within girlhood and launching into a post-stratospheric space of exciting uncertainty.
In this first set of poems and essays, adolescent and adult writers consider femininity, sexuality, aspirations, passions, trials, pain, histories and futures, as well as their responsibilities as local and global citizens. Girlhood asserts itself across this collection as beautifully complicated and varied, synonymous with infinite possibility. These poems and essays encourage and reinforce each other’s validity, and are all the more powerful when presented together…”
In April 2015, we asked girls to send us creative work that reflects on what girlhood means to them: how they might…
Posted by grlhood on Wednesday, December 2, 2015
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