for me, maintaining that I had a girlhood isn’t about figuring out some intrinsic universal that connects me w everyone else who had one (except in tautology... the thing we share in having had a girlhood is having had a girlhood - and even then, whose girlhood is marked as such and whose is erased?) but instead a gesture at the full spectrum of departures from it — a girlhood can become into anything, can produce any result, a girlhood is happenstance and says nothing of destiny












