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“Febos is trying to make sense of what it means to be in our bodies as women as we grow up. She starts from her earliest childhood memories—young and rampaging through the woods, with a delight in the physical that I think we can all remember from childhood, before it became more complicated. She starts in that mode, where she has a fledgling sense of sexuality, although it doesn’t yet have a name. It’s not been contextualised by society’s expectations of how we should package our desire, who we should want or how we should present our wanting. She shows this lovely little window into the potential for girls to grow into our bodies and sexualities before we are set upon by social expectations and patriarchal structures that confine, censure and control those sexualities.” Read more...
Tyler Wetherall, Memoirist
