Krista Anna Lewis
The other day, Improvised Life’s always-surprising assistant Mira Keras used a phrase we’d never heard before, but totally KNEW: “Girl prison“. She said it in reference to a women’s magazine she’s bought. Except for one article, it was a Girl Prison, full of notions of “the right way to be a girl“, so fierce with implicit “shoulds” and shame as to become a”prison” in the reader’s mind.
Girl and other kinds of Prisons are so woven throughout our culture, that we are always on the lookout for sites and publications that liberate rather than imprison. Our new favorite: MAN REPELLER. (more…)