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I knew what a wet dream was before I knew what discharge was.
Why is male sexuality … celebrated and normalized whereas female sexuality continues to make people deeply uncomfortable?
And more importantly, the normalcy of these things.
Its one thing to be able to articulate your artistic goals and another to pretty much nail them.
Get your hands out of your panties!
Youre a lady and thats not what lady fingers do!
Sex hovers all around these girls, and not just as an unarticulated impulse.
Its in the games Kyeoung and Anna play with their stuffed animals, which are simultaneously X-rated and innocent.
Kyeoung tries to take the disgusted Lindsays place, but Rory recoils: He doesnt want chink cooties.
crows Rory, as Lindsay and Anna stare inquisitively at their friend.
Theres the friction between girls uncertain of how to unlink self-definition from competition.
Theres the feral silliness of childhood, the hunger for experience and the fear of some undefined danger.
Its funny and its awful who told this poor child that menstruating was shameful?
Probably no one, in so many words, yet its what we absorb all the same.
Which is, of course, Kyeoung.
Rafaeli opts to reset the stage for her instead, and I wish that she hadnt.
Here, Peiffer and Rafaelis eerie, ecstatic dream-ballet took one too many steps into the literal for me.
That stillness held everything already: wonder, yearning, and violence side by side.
What are you doing?
the Woman asks Kyeoung, as the girl enters her bathroom wide-eyed and soft-footed, a razor in hand.
Youre going to be okay.
Nothing HAPPENED okay nothing happened, insists Kyeoung, livid and empty-eyed, but the Woman knows better.
The moment the water hit my body was the moment he got away with it, she remembers.
Usual Girlsis at the Roundabouts Steinberg Center through December 16.
