Jennifer Mathieu

For all the teenage women fighting the good fight.

Girls who try not to stand out. Girls who have secret crushes that they’ll never act on. Girls who sit quietly in class and earn decent grades and hope they won’t be called on to explain the symbolism in line 12 of a poem.

Sometimes I wonder if it’s possible to feel nostalgic for something you never actually got to experience yourself.

I never talk in class. Ever. It’s like when you hear your voice on a recording and it sounds totally bizarre to your ears, like it can’t actually be you. That’s what it’s like to hear my voice out loud in a classroom