Girls & Sex

erotic-as-power

• If you complain and you're on the list, you're a prude. If you're not on it, you're ugly. Complain about sexism and you're a humorless feminist bitch.

  GS-005

• Camila grabbed the mic: 'If I want to wear a tank top because it's hot, that has no correlation to how much respect I hold for myself.'

  GS-011

shame

• Every generation invents a new Scarlet Letter word—strumpet, hussy, slut, skank—with which to demonize girls' sexuality. All those singled out were black or Latina.

  GS-003

• There are degrees of shame and guilt probably permanently embedded in me. I wish that wasn't so. It haunts a lot of my actions.

  GS-013

embodiment

• 'I felt super comfortable with myself.' Then at school—automatically I wasn't in control. People staring, looking me up and down. It was dehumanizing.

  GS-012

• Four out of five days I will be catcalled, stared at, touched. You just accept it as part of going to school.

  GS-009