“We was girls together,” she said as though explaining something. “O Lord, Sula,” she cried, “girl, girl, girlgirlgirl.”
girlgirlgirl
Issue 2322
It's been two years. How are you? We're happy to be back in the classroom without our masks.
This time, we've grown a little taller, precocious, weary, caring, and everything else that come with age and a pandemic. The features and collections in this issue are laced with memory and nostalgia; we see older women grappling with friendship, girls reflecting on what they could have said to their friends. There are some regret, some pain, some longing. There is cattiness. Friends who have separated, friends who have grown apart. Friends who leave things unsaid, friends who have said too much.
To us, girlgirlgirl is an affordance of a time and space to examine female relations in a safe space where possibilities are ample and imagination wild.
girlgirlgirl is best viewed on a desktop or laptop, as a two-page spread.
About YHU2311
girlgirlgirl
Issue 2311
This course begins with Morrison’s question: "What is friendship between women when unmediated by men?" Twice a week, our class of 17 students gather to examine a range of affiliations and communities in 20C novels and films, including those chosen and familial, competitive and cordial, psychological and economic. Our foci are the ethics of care and relationality between women.
The first text we read was the Victorian magazine, The Girl's Own Paper. It introduced us to the need for an imagined community of girls: editors, writers, artists, readers. Four months later and in the same spirit, here is our version of a magazine: girlgirlgirl.
The magazine is a creative translation of our understanding of women's bonds, the nature of girl-friendship, female sexuality, intimacy and distance, cruelty and solidarity. Behind each story and drawing, cliche and caricature, is a thought shaped by our readings from Elizabeth Bowen, Muriel Spark, Bapsi Sidhwa, Toni Morrison, Gladys Ng, Emma Donoghue, Nadine Labaki, Kai Cheng Thom, Park Chan-wook, and Stanley Kwan among others.
girlgirlgirl is best viewed on a desktop or laptop.