For years, girlhood has been treated like a problem to solve. Everywhere you look, someone is being encouraged to brand herself as singular: not emotional like other girls, not dramatic like other girls, not into clothes or makeup or romance or whatever other trait currently signals triviality. It wasn’t personal—it was cultural conditioning, a quiet … Continue reading I’m Not ‘Not Like Other Girls,’ I Am Exactly Like Other Girls and That’s Sociopolitical Solidarity