{"id":615,"date":"2025-03-24T20:31:23","date_gmt":"2025-03-24T20:31:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jbarham.art\/?page_id=615"},"modified":"2026-05-15T18:12:03","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T18:12:03","slug":"girlhate","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jbarham.art\/?page_id=615","title":{"rendered":"girlhate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/jbarham.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/spikyfigures-683x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-616\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jbarham.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/spikyfigures-683x1024.png 683w, https:\/\/jbarham.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/spikyfigures-200x300.png 200w, https:\/\/jbarham.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/spikyfigures-768x1151.png 768w, https:\/\/jbarham.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/spikyfigures.png 865w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/jbarham.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/GIRLHATE-683x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-617\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jbarham.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/GIRLHATE-683x1024.png 683w, https:\/\/jbarham.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/GIRLHATE-200x300.png 200w, https:\/\/jbarham.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/GIRLHATE-768x1151.png 768w, https:\/\/jbarham.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/GIRLHATE.png 865w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Covers for an imaginary book on the salt circles my younger self poured around themself as protection. Seeing oneself as not-like-the-other-girls is at once born of external terror, of arrogance, and of creeping and vast loneliness. We don&#8217;t have to keep doing this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>The way some of us assigned female at birth compete with one another for true womanhood, motherhood, purity, or leadership, is unnecessary and tragic. We&#8217;re not crabs in a bucket. This is not a zero-sum game. There is nothing we stand to lose by joining hands in solidarity &#8211; with our own communities as we describe them and with every other person interested in making this life more beautiful.<br>Love thy neighbor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Covers for an imaginary book on the salt circles my younger self poured around themself as protection. Seeing oneself as not-like-the-other-girls is at once born of external terror, of arrogance, and of creeping and vast loneliness. We don&#8217;t have to keep doing this. The way some of us assigned female at birth compete with one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":616,"parent":1402,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"yes","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-615","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jbarham.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jbarham.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jbarham.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jbarham.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jbarham.art\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=615"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jbarham.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1614,"href":"https:\/\/jbarham.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/615\/revisions\/1614"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jbarham.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1402"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jbarham.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jbarham.art\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}