haha you know what I just remembered? In like middle school when all the horse girls had like, leather wristbands with brass plates with the names of their horses

at Cornell I took a class with Joan Jacobs Brumberg, author of The Body Project, that was cross-listed American Studies/FGSS (”Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies” - our merged Women’s and Gender Studies department).

it was a history of girlhood in America, which I took because I was like “that’s history I’m unlikely to have picked up by osmosis”, I was the only guy in the class of 35

I want to say I wasn’t that guy, but I kinda was probably. I was like 20 and the internet was still young, sorry.

She was a pop feminist author more than an academic, it showed through; on the last day she swelled with pride in like, our girlhood and readiness to become women and shared secrets of womanly vulnerability and kind of invited us to cry together and it was fucking excruciating

ANYWAY, she had mentioned that her next project was going to be a book that was basically “Middle School Girls and Horses: What IS Up With That, Anyway”. Sadly seems she never got to it, it’s a question I’d like answered and she seemed well-suited.