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...
The three Villanueva women sit together on a bench that is a staple setting for conversation. It is a rare thing to come across very potent storytelling for girls and women, although, less rare than it once was. My teen-girlhood was marked by a deep immersion into...
Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century This weekend my roommate and I were scrolling through Disney+, when we stumbled upon a childhood favorite of both of ours: Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century. I distinctly remember watching the trilogy in the early 2000s,...
Poster for Alice in Wonderland (1951). Image taken by author. I had a vague recollection of watching the original Disney adaptation of Alice in Wonderland as a child, and was therefore intrigued by the new immersive exhibition exploring its history...