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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

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research

showcasing 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

Personal essays written by young  women, centring their own experience over academic or outsider framing.
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community

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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critical girlhood studies

CGS menerbitkan tulisan tentang dan esai karya perempuan muda Indonesia. CGS percaya cerita yang paling penting tentang menjadi perempuan muda harus datang dari perempuan muda sendiri.

[CGS publishes writing about and essays by young Indonesian women. CGS believes the most important stories about being a young woman must come from young women themselves.]