I’m Just a Girl: An Evening with Jess Bacon in Cambridge

It is a truth universally acknowledged that boys will be boys and girls have to grow up... Join journalist Jess Bacon as she discusses her book I'm Just a Girl, in which she introduces readers to the 'second girlhood'.

Over the past decade, girlhood has repainted the cultural landscape pink. From Taylor Swift's The Era's Tour to Barbiemania, this nostalgia for girlhood has become a billion-dollar business, seen in the music we listen to, the clothes we wear, and the 2000s movies (and their long-awaited sequels) we watch on repeat. InI'm Just a Girl, journalist Jess Bacon introduces readers to the 'second girlhood', the extended adolescence that adult women have crafted for themselves as a means to reconnect with the part of themselves they left behind: the girl.

Jess Bacon is an author, journalist and creator based in Cambridgeshire, who covers film, TV and pop culture, and the representation of women on-screen. She has written for the likes ofStylist, Glamour,The Guardian,Radio Times,Rolling Stone,GQ,Elle andDazed, as well as interviewed numerous actors, directors and creatives. Jess studied English Literature at the University of York, before doing her Masters in Creative Writing at the University of Leicester. When she's not writing, you'll find her at the cinema, oversharing her life on the internet, devouring the latest must-read romantasy or spending time with her family and friends.

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