Reading Judith Butler always makes my happy. I always feel like I've done something hard but good for me (like exercise for the brain). Re-reading it for class today made me think that maybe, despite the rocky political times, our society has come a long way from the 1990s moment that produced "Bodies That Matter." It made me think we really are doing at least a little better at making room for more bodies to matter.
As for girlhood, I want to leave our YWLP gals with a few lessons I think Judith Butler might approve of:
-They are not defined by their bodies, but are defined by society.
-Being defined by society does not take away one's ability to choose or to resist, but it that resistance has consequences.
-There is no one/best way to be a girl.
-Gender is a moving target - one that changes for society and for us as individuals enacting it.
