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critical girlhood studies

rethinking girlhood studies in Southeast Asia

platform untuk kajian kehidupan perempuan muda

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Critical Girlhood Studies in Indonesia Online Symposium
18 & 25 Juli 2026
gabung & obrolin kehidupan perempuan muda Indonesia bareng praktisi, peneliti, dan aktivis

Perempuan muda sering merasa kuat, berani, sangat kreatif, dan berdaya, lalu mereka mulai menerima pesan-pesan seksis yang mendorong mereka untuk mengikuti norma femininitas konvensional. Untuk menyesuaikan diri, mereka harus melepaskan kekuatan itu.

Young girls often feel strong, courageous, highly creative, and powerful until they begin to receive undermining sexist messages that encourage them to conform to conventional notions of femininity. To conform they have to give up power.

― bell hooks, Communion: The Female Search for Love

the girls

research

CGS mengedepankan riset dan karya peneliti yang mendalami kehidupan perempuan muda sebagai sumber pengetahuan, dan perempuan muda sebagai peneliti dan pemikir, bukan sekadar objek kajian atau intervensi

[CGS showcases research projects and researchers that position young women's lives as sources of knowledge, and young women as researchers and thinkers rather than objects of study or intervention]
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essays

CGS menerbitkan esai yang ditulis tentang dan oleh perempuan muda, mengeksplorasi pengalaman hidup perempuan muda, bukan kerangka akademis atau pandangan dari luar

[essays written about and by young women, centring young women's own experience over academic or outsider framing]
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community

CGS membangun jaringan peneliti perempuan muda di Asia Tenggara, yang ingin menulis, menyunting, dan berpikir bersama tentang kehidupan perempuan muda

[CGS is building toward a growing network of young women researchers across Southeast Asia who write, edit, and think together about girlhood]
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publikasi [publications]

Panduan penelitian bersama perempuan muda [a guide to researching with young women]

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shifting the paradigm: rethinking research on indonesian girls and young women

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