GirlsWorld is producing it’s inaugural issue. A publication dedicated to the discussion of the eternal state of “Girlhood”
Women, far beyond their biological state of girlhood, are often stuck in this limbo (socially, professionally, societally) – Eternal Girlhood refers to a sweetness, an amateurishness – a coy but simple and easiness, a lack of complexity, a hidden tragedy.
This state is not solely limited to people who refer to themselves as women – it is a state of mind, a state of being – a state of not taking oneself seriously at the risk of being seen as overly aggressive. It is being looked down upon, while simultaneously being fetishized. It is being full of unlocked potential, sexual or otherwise, without knowing it. It is being trapped within a paradigm where only one of two options is available to you, for the duration of your life and expression on earth.
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GirlsWorld aims to be a series of musings, slightly changing form with each new issue, sometimes featuring content on a specific theme, and sometimes providing the viewer and reader with a wider range of observations.
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With special thanks to our contributors to the publication who include but are not limited to:
Isidore Bethel, Sarah Burns, Ciara Duffy, Molly Duggan, Kayla E, Sophie Friedman-Pappas, Jane Harmon, Balarama Heller, Katarina Janeckova, Richard Johannisson, YoungGun Lee, Isabel Magowan, Sophia Narrett, Jes Nelson, Dana Powell, Kate Shannon, Emily Mae Smith, Katie Stout, Linnea Stephan, Oakley Tapola, Mckenzie Toma, Sophie Walker, Ann Weathersby, Jessica Wilson, among many others.
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Founders and Directors
Emma Courtney Cook & Rachel Libeskind
The risk we run is to not become like every other publication.
We are not a magazine, we are not a book — rather, we want to be an annual, or bi-annual, compendium of the status of Girlhood in the world, reflected by artists, writers and thinkers, alike.