An image from @hellicity_merriman on instagram In the mid to early 2000s, a craze took over a generation of girlhood: American Girl Dolls. Expensive 16 inch dolls connected to an era of American history, each with her own book series. Each doll had an extensive cache...
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”...
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...
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...
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...
“Boy Torture: the Two-Headed Monster” (1999) by Justine Kurland from the series Girl Pictures When imagining girlhood in a rather vague sense, what comes to mind is plastic. Plastic dolls, plastic pink crowns and shoes and jewelry. A stiff neon...
