What's it like to be a teenage girl in the Philippines? 🤔👩🦰 | via philstarlife
Perhaps no other image encapsulates modern life better than the meme, “Am I a person? Or just a bunch of Taylor Swift lyrics glued together?”
Of course, the artist being referenced is interchangeable; the point is that, right now, it is extremely difficult to create an identity that is not just that of “consumer.” Our genuine interests are commodified and sold back to us. They become signifiers of cool, appropriated by corporations and celebrities in an attempt to win our allegiance. “This is what I like,” easily mutates into, “This is what I like to buy.”In comes the teenage girl.
This is all to say that teenage girls and young women are perhaps among the most important producers and caretakers of contemporary culture, as they have been for decades. In celebration of Women’s Month,asked readers to submit photos that capture their girlhood—partly as an exercise in cultural ethnography, or as a documentation of this specific experience in the Filipino context.
I grew up in a Catholic school, and this was in 2012 when we had to get our pictures taken. Everyone looked like young and mischievous angels. We were girls together!while having your first dance with your boyfriend at 15, even if you’re just at the roofless basketball court of your public high school with Ed Sheeran playing in the background.
Now that I'm a young adult, I miss that kind of intimacy with my mom that I could only get when I was a girl.This is a scan of my journal. I tried to write down my happiest moments while staying inside during the pandemic. My phone was taken away from me so all I had at the time was my handy journal.I used to collect magazines when I was 10 and I saved the posters that came with them.
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