Classic Girlhood:
Eighth Grade (2018)
The Virgin Suicides (1999)
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. (2023)
Turning Red (2022)
Little Women (2019)
Girlhood continues when you are an adult:
Brooklyn (2015)
Frances Ha (2012)
Girlhood but also dad stuff:
Aftersun (2022)
Related Recs
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Petit Maman is maybe my favourite film about girlhood; it’s spare and soft and ruminative. Miyazaki movies are also often centered on girlhood, and feminine adolescence— Kiki’s delivery service, and the Secret World of Arriety, are two that I would recommend.
Extended (nonexhaustive) list: Catharine Called Birdy, Dirty Dancing, Turning Red, The Quiet Girl, Eighth Grade, Frances Ha.
Jul 8, 2024
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Dahomey (2024)
Love lies bleeding (2024)
Ladybird (2017)
Thirteen (2003)
How to have sex (2023)
Persepolis (2007)
Bottoms (2023)
Aftersun (2023)
Bound (1996)
I can’t think straight (2008)
Are you there God, it’s me Margaret (2023)
Rye lane (2023)
Polite society (2023)
The Woman King (2022)
Saint Omer (2023)
Tahara (2020)
Little women (2019)
Pariah (2011)
Bend it like Beckham (2002)
Love & Basketball (2000)
The Watermelon Woman (1996)
Desert Hearts (1985)
Jennifer’s Body (2009)
Portrait of a lady on fire (2019)
Bodies Bodies Bodies (2022)
Nov 3, 2024
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my favorite genre!!!!
books:
chlorine by jade song: teenage swimmer under a lot of pressure is convinced she's a mermaid
brutes by dizz tate: a group of vile preteens who seem to operate as one entity are obsessed with a local girl who goes missing. check tws on this one
penance by eliza clark: probably my favorite book!!! a fictional true crime novel about 3 teenage girls who killed one of their classmates
salt slow by julia armfield: a bunch of short stories that are entirely this!!!
i have so many movies i will just list them: raw (2016) !!!!!!!, blue my mind (2018), may (2002), excision (2012), hatching (2022), braid (2018), jennifer’s body (2009), teeth (2007), kissed (1996), the fan (1982), we’re all going to the world’s fair (2021), ginger snaps (2000), thoroughbreds (2017), the craft (1996). you also might like swallow (2019) though it isn’t coming of age!
May 13, 2024
Top Recs from @caskeyc
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1. Don't set an alarm and wake up naturally. Snooze for however long you want to, it's okay
2. Have breakfast. For me it's toast. Have it with butter/jam/honey and a lot of water and coffee and juice.
3. Listen to an album in full and do some puzzles until it ends. I like to stick a record on and do the nyt games (connections, then wordle, then the mini, then I'm ready for a crossword)
4. Shower and use all your best stuff. Smell great. Make your hair feel soft.
5. Wear an outfit you don't get to wear that often. I tend to wear the same thing over and over at work so I wear something a bit more fun and less practical.
6. Go outside. I live near a road with secondhand shops that are great browsing but quite tempting on a budget. To beat the temptation just look in the windows and then walk round the streets or to a green space if it's a nice day. Walk as fast or as slow as you like. Try and spot cats that might let you stroke them. See how each place you go smells different. Walk down streets that you've not been down before just because.
7. Come home and decide how much energy you have. If you have energy do an activity (I would write, play an instrument, do some art, read, play a game) if you don't then watch something from your watchlist. Saturdays feel like a good day to watch something new.
8. Cook yourself a meal. Start before you're hungry and spend ages on it. Use every pot. Listen to music. Sing whilst you wash the dishes.
9. Play! Video games, board games, internet games, card games, phone games, rearrange your plushies, embrace your inner child. Play with ideas, experiment with felt tip pens, write a limerick. Get silly with it.
10. Talk to your friends. Invite them over, call somebody up, text that person back you didn't have time to. I like to spend a good day off by myself then have a great time talking to people after I've recharged.
11. Have so much fun getting to do whatever you want you fall asleep at whatever time. Monday - Friday is about appeasing your body clock, Saturdays are for filthy pleasures like falling asleep at 3am because you were too busy flirting or reading or watching videos.
Apr 16, 2024
Re: my last rec I'm kinda realizing reading this might have changed my life actually
Apr 16, 2024