grlrm

feminist blog surrounding the culture of the girl bedroom

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My Bedroom

Medina, Ohio circa. 1991

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Pictures of the day: 13 September 2010

Today: Cliff divers, swimming babies, women's boxing, and a Halo jetpack.

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12 Amazing '90s/'00s TV Show Bedrooms You Would Actually Want Now - Gurl.com

One of my favorite things about watching a TV show or a movie is getting to check out the fictional world that the characters live in. Whether we spend most of our time in their bedroom, their house, or hanging near their school locker, it’s always interesting to see how where they keep their stuff … Read More

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Rene Allen, “Home”, 2013

In this series, Rene Allen creates floor-plan maps, from memory, of the homes she lived in throughout her childhood.  Allen moved around a lot through her life and says that this project exemplifies “the failure of my memory to locate spaces in time.”  The constant in all the maps is her bedroom and her bed, which she notes, “becomes a stand in for myself, traveling through the spaces of my memory.”  Allen’s project highlights the bedroom as an important space throughout her childhood, which relates to the focus of this blog--to bring attention to the importance of girl’s bedrooms in female identity.  “Home” specifically points out the role of one’s bed and bedroom as a grounding element for our memories and our relationship to the past.   

See the full project and the artist’s statement here: http://cargocollective.com/ReneAllen/Home-2013

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A woman must have money and a room of her own...

Virginia Wolfe, “A Room of One’s Own”

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“Girls and their rooms is the subject of a comprehensive collection of portraits by photographer Rania Matar, which capture stunning and intensely personal scenes of teenage girls in their most intimate environments. Her new book, A Girl and Her Room, features close to 100 images from the project.” --Huffington Post (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/25/a-girl-and-her-room-rania_n_1452805.html)

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obviously an essential...

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This show was curated by Petra Collins & Tavi Gevinson at Space 1520 in 2012. Real good inspo.

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from teen angel

a selection of photographs of Tavi Gevinson in her bedroom by Petra Collins

the whole series is here. 

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Minako Nishiyama, The Pinkú Room, 1991/2006

https://www.kanazawa21.jp/data_list.php?g=97&d=127&lng=e

P.S. just found out about this artist and this piece in the BEST book: PINK: The Exposed Color in Contemporary Art and Culture, edited by Barbara Nemitz

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I’ve been thinking so much about sorting within the context of the bedroom especially in relation to the way we sort components of our identities. The vanity itself is a structure for sorting

I had a small vanity in my bedroom during my teen years that had 6 little drawers in it. The drawers ended up full of pens and pencils and random little treasures mostly unrelated to makeup. 

Which part(s) of you belong in the vanity? 

Which part(s) of you belong in which drawer?

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Bedroom memories.

I found these pictures in my parent’s garage last week.  There are two separate bedrooms pictured here over several years.  As a pre-teen/teenager, I was proud that my room was the preferred hang-out spot for my friends and I.  We would spend hours on the floor just being together, talking, laughing, and sharing secrets.  Having a place that my friends felt comfortable in was important to me and I valued my room as a social space as much as I valued it as my private space.  

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all girls are gossips, rebecca gabrielle, 2016

First we’re liars… then we’re gossips, what’s next? 

PM me for full-sized pdf version for printing. 

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with Jenny Garber, Angela McRobbie

Found Abstract:

“ The concept of a ‘bedroom culture’ was first introduced to youth cultural studies in the 1970s by Angela McRobbie and Jenny Garber (1975). They set out to ‘add on’ the missing dimension of gender to accounts written by the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies that primarily documented the subcultural activities of young white males using the concept of social class. In their now canonical paper ‘Girls and subcultures’, McRobbie and Garber outlined the reasons why teenage girls were absent in these accounts and what they were doing as an alternative. For example, McRobbie and Garber cited methodological issues between male researchers working with female participants, their interactions with whom were recorded as being difficult because the girls were mostly ‘giggly’ and ‘passive’ (p. 1). As a consequence girls were frequently considered as ‘hangers-on’, associated to subcultures only through their boyfriends. However, McRobbie and Garber surmised that teenage girls’ invisibility in these accounts did not mean that they were not participating, but rather that their subcultural lives were being lived out in an alternative domain: that of the home. “

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tinyurl redirects to full pdf

Sian Lincoln expands on Angela McRobie’s theory of bedroom culture in the 1970s to discuss 1990s girls’ and young women’s bedroom culture. Lincoln notes and theorizes the shift from an environment of projected fantasy to a space with different types of work and leisure zones, and as a materially designed space for social bonding and navigating public and private sphere’s of girls’ lives.

In the section titled “Creating Bedroom Spaces” Lincoln mentions the roles that technological materials and objects play in shifting how the bedroom functions as backdrop for the different types of activities that take place there. Like music being integral to creating a soundscape for a night out or doing coursework. However, Lincoln mentions the role of the PC in her ethnographic study as contextualized strictly for educational purposes and points to the concept that this differs from how the PC is contextualized in boys’ and young men’s bedroom culture.

Diverging from this idea I thought about how the changing availability and utility of Internet accessing tech also extends and alters this bedroom culture. How does this compare with Lincoln’s zone theorizing - particularly in relation to public/private and danger/safety illusions pertaining to the created bedroom space? I’m also thinking about how I conceptualized the safety level of activity that participated in through the internet from the comfort of my bedroom space as a teen, and how that becomes part of how I’ve conceptualized social safety as an adult.

WIthin this article there are some solid jumping off points for GRLRM’s installation and program discourse. If y’all give this a read, reblog with your thoughts or response to this article :)

- olivia