The Genius of Judy: How Judy Blume Rewrote Childhood for All of Us

embodiment

• Forever was the first book of its kind to show a young couple's sexual journey… descriptions of nudity, orgasms, and semen, but the emotional relationship is just as nuanced.

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• 'I didn't have to hide it,' but her friends did… 'we'd all whisper and certain pages would fall open,' crowding around the novel.

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shame

• She pulled me across another major milestone—she wrote a book that I wanted to hide from my parents.

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• 'I wish I had been able to risk showing my anger now and then. I wish I had felt secure enough to know that once I had gotten it all out I would still be loved.'

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obedience-and-authority

• 'While the censors are looking for obscene passages in my books… I'm hearing from kids' who are victims of incest and abuse.

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• Republican-led state legislatures in Florida, Texas, and Iowa… book banners calling titles like Gender Queer 'grooming.'

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