Lauren Greenfield's Girl Culture

It’s never been a better time to be born a girl, and it’s never been quite so difficult to grow up female. Barbie may say, “we girls can do anything,” but what too many girls do is starve or cut themselves, have sex before they are ready to handle the consequences, or simply grow up a little too precociously, thanks to a culture that loves the female body a little too aggressively. Lauren Greenfield spent five years documenting American girlhood, capturing moments for a resulting exhibit of fifty-eight photographs (also published as a book) that are shocking and troubling, joyful and beautiful—sometimes all at once. (Read more on page 24 in our Straight Talk interview.) 165 13th Ave. NE, Minneapolis; 612-824-5500