“In 5th grade, at...”
In 5th grade, at the start of penmanship class for girls, S. asked Miss W. why we couldn't go out and play, like the boys did. Miss W. answered: "If you want to be a boy, you can leave now." That shut all of us girls up, and we already knew better: girls had to be girls and to question social gendering was a risk.--Experience of a black girl in all-black private school in Brooklyn, circa 1974
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