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Feminine Flow: Unlearning Lessons from a 90s Childhood
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Feminine Flow: Unlearning Lessons from a 90s Childhood

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Vanessa
Oct 27, 2023
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Revisiting the 90s and early aughts through Britney Spears’ memoir has reminded me of all the disturbing things we were taught as children of that era; about women, about sex, about thinness. A truly puritanical portrait of a culture that celebrated violence while shaming sex and self-expression. Not entirely unlike today, though much more staunch, repressed, and unconscious of itself.

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