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Meet the Interns: Aveline Plenter
My name is Aveline (she/her) and I am currently a History student at Bryn Mawr College near Philadelphia, PA. A fun fact about myself is I am actually an identical twin, so my girlhood was spent almost always with a built-in best friend! I like to hold the fact that I...
Will Sisterhood Save Us?
Feminism is fractured. Can sisterhood save it? Tiffany reflects on a decade in girl studies, our work as scholars, and the path forward in this month’s rant.
Gender Expression in Art: Seeing Gender Exhibition
Seeing Gender exhibition at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco. Image source: Asian Art Museum San Francisco On a rainy Sunday afternoon in September, I finally got the chance to visit the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco. The "Seeing Gender" exhibition,...
Evil Queens and Good Princesses
I used to study children’s literature in university. I learned that in many children's stories, girls are often portrayed as passive and compliant, with a tendency to follow the rules and to do what they are told. They are often shown as being dependent on others, and...
Call for Papers — The Girl in Theory: Toward a Critical Girlhood Studies Symposium
We're excited to announce that Girl Museum's own E Feinman, alongside colleagues at Rutger's Department of Childhood Studies, is hosting a virtual symposium March 29-31, 2023. This call for papers is seeking papers that engage with ideas such as (Re)defining the...
Book Review: Pizza Girl, by Jean Kyoung Frazier
It was a hot summer's day, I was on the London tube sweating and running for my train with an inconvenient suitcase dragging at my heels. I was one stop away from Kings Cross station and this book caught my eye. It had been left on the tube (not an unusual thing in...
The Strength and Power of Iranian Girls and Women
On September 13th, 2022, twenty-two-year-old Mahsa Amini was arrested in Tehran by the Guidance Patrol, Iran’s morality police, for supposedly violating the country’s strict laws requiring women to cover their hair. Hours after being detained, Mahsa Amini was taken to...
“Girlhood… It’s Complicated!” (Except for When It Isn’t)
Image from Jazz Jenning’s Facebook page. This image was included in a photo series of Jazz and her family visiting the ‘Girlhood… It’s Complicated!’ exhibit at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History in Washington, DC. In October 2020, Smithsonian’s...
Meet the Interns: Hannah Grey
Hi, my name is Hannah and I’m very excited to start my internship with the Girl Museum. As you can see from the picture, I was an academic from day one - well - not really, but this picture marks my first day of ‘big’ school and what I consider the beginning of a long...
OK to not always be OK
Well, here I am again, not knowing what to write for a Staff Rant. So many things swirling in my brain, but trying to grab just one of them is as fruitless as trying to grab a wisp of a cloud. They just flit away, mocking me intensely. If you’re thinking this...