#Girlhood

Mame-Fatou Niang

MariannesNoires

(Thread on Black womanhood, representations and French cinema) - So today, someone (ecstatically) told me, upon finding that I was from France, that they #Girlhood. I don’t .I just

Leah

9BillionTigers

pretty messed up how many trans women legislate ourselves as having always been women and trans men legislate themselves as FtM because the societal narrative that sexual victimhood is legitimated

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Scotsmistt

Sturgeon's nightmare: She ends her daily TV homily & the sound is unmuted for questions. All she can hear, however, is a distant noise, which gets louder & louder until

Emily Wells

e_p_wells

This thread brings up a lot of great points but I especially love how @mimicofmodes brings up the difference between girlhood and adult embroidery. I've written about this a bit

Mia Moore 🏳️‍🌈

StopTweetingMia

I talk a lot about how much gendered socialization hurt me growing up. Being forced to experience a boys adolescence and feeling ostracized by my girl friends because they saw

adri ❤🌸

cybershoujo

who is the pinkest character in bandori. this IS a trick question and you WILL answer the answer is rimi *i see people getting up from their seats* WAIT WAIT

Melissa Febos

melissafebos

(thread) When I publish a book, I think of its yearly cohort as a kind of literary litter of pups—& there are SO many exciting books coming out alongside my

Ben Railton

AmericanStudier

Looking for reading material to help you stay comfy & warm on this frigid January day? Well, it’s easy as another #ScholarSunday morning thread of public scholarly work from the

Roya Hakakian

RoyaTheWriter

1-Today is the #WorldRefugeeDay . I arrived in the United States as a refugee in 1985. I was 19. I only had a backback & knew little English. I came

Zora's Daughters Podcast

Zoras_Daughters

“And this makes me wonder if a Black girl’s life is only about being stitched together and coming undone, being stitched together and coming undone.” – @reneewauthor here's a thread

Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan

thebrownhijabi

So I decided to explain more behind this on Instagram and will copy to here because tbh this sort of activity is important to counter. It’s straight up deflecting accountability

Robin James

doctaj

Something something social media and teh interwebs finally making the political significance of pop media fandom/communities/ devalued teengirled cultural sphere legible. This is not new just newly legible *as politics*https://www.nytimes.c

Anna Biller

missannabiller

GOOD-BYE, MY FANCY (1951) will not be everyone's cup of tea, but Joan Crawford as a congresswoman fighting for female students' rights to be exposed to real issues in the

Reagan Gomez

ReaganGomez

Listening to @itsgabrielleu ‘s book #WereGoingToNeedMoreWine (really enjoying it) & there’s a chapter where, while 15/16, one of her friends became pregnant. So they, her group of friends, raised money

Heron Greenesmith, Esq.

herong

SHE'S BAAAAAAACCKKKKK(Abagail Shrier I mean) https://twitter.com/herong/status/1277649067338858497?s=20 Who is Abagail Shrier? She's the author of the anti-trans book "Irreversible Damage. That's it! She wrote a book! No ot

cay

koralinadean

quote tweet your opinion on these coming of age movies! (a thread) lady bird (2018) the spectacular now (2013) moonlight (2016) the breakfast club (1985) the edge of seventeen (2016)

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