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Cecília Meireles, from "In Autumn, My Heart," featured in Antologia poética

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via ‘lunulae’ substack on medieval-girl autumn

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horse laying in a bed of hay this is a small white foal wearing a pink halter it is surrounded by an unearthly glow the purity and innocence of youth reveals itself in the oddest of ways

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Honestly you have the patience of a saint dealing with all these rude people knocking your using the word girl.

bless you, that is sweet of you ❤️‍🩹 I remember being very battered by anons a few years ago, and I have since learned not to take it to heart!

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https://www.tumblr.com/wistful-giselle/756268879003746304/girlhood-youre-almost-30

i lost my late teen/early twenties to ptsd after a traumatic event. i’m nearly thirty now and finally feeling like i’m getting to connect with the more positive aspects of ‘girlhood’. and at what point do you ever leave it, i don’t think it’s something eternal.

I am sincerely very sorry that was your experience, and I truly sympathise. I am so glad you are able to reconfigure what ‘girlhood’ is to you, that is completely deserved. ♥️

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women in their 20s stop calling yourself girls and start calling yourself what you are AN ADULT WOMAN

I imagine I understand where you are coming from, re the dangers of the infantilisation of women (this is me being generous towards your interpretation), and I sympathise. but please let me refer you to:

• The Girl in Theory: Toward a Critical Girlhood Studies Symposium <Girl in Theory>

• Tiqqun’s Preliminary Materials For a Theory of the Young-Girl <Young-Girl>

• Heather Warren-Crow’s Young-Girls in Echoland: #Theorizing Tiqqun

• & Girlhood and the Plastic Image

• Alex Quicho’s ‘Everyone is a Girl Online’

• Claudia Mitchell’s Girlhood Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal <Girlhood Studies>

thank you. ♡

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I am writing my first novel about girlhood and the land of the unconscious, the manifestation of trauma in dreamscapes and caring for dolls, the blurring together of fantasy and reality…

I want to make sure the text accommodates many different experiences & images of girlhood, and so if anyone has ideas, dreams, fears, nightmares, stories to tell me they would be gratefully received — I would do my best to interweave their essence into the book. 💌❤️‍🩹

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dear moon,

let me find home in a bed of roses let me see stars in a cup of milk let my rabbit heart rest

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look for the name ANGELA (requested by anonymous) | vintage cotton linen white dress w/ lace details reconstructed off the shoulder cut and fitted bodice (c. 199o's), gyouree kim recycled organza mesh bow headband, antique steiff (german brand) teddy bear w/ bell ribbon collar (c. 195o's), coty "fairy princess" cologne (released 1956), miu miu pink silk buckle strap ballerinas w/ mismatched ribbon ankle ties

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