Though a story crafted for and about a seven-year-old girl, Alice – the subject of a new V&A exhibition – has always wriggled away from her maker to become something more adolescent. Here, Claire Marie Healy explores why
If these things don't bring back warm, fuzzy memories, then you can talk to the hand, because the face ain't listening!
Disaffected hipsters, cyberpunk dystopias, cranky ducks, boy geniuses: greatest comic-story collections that don't feature caped crusaders.
After shooting several people at a school in San Diego in 1979, teen Brenda Ann Spencer told a reporter, 'I just did it for the fun of it. I don't like Mondays. This livens up the day.'
Teenage girls are all steamed up these days about straight hair. The steam iron is replacing the huge rollers on which countless teens slept every night to achieve the height and curls. The same girls endure having their hair stretched to absolute straightness on the ironing board, and then ironed to keep it that way. Unlike the roller setting, this takes teamwork. Gay Stilley, 14, goes through an ironing session with her friends Geri Siblano, 15, and Joan Mahoney, 15, in the Stilley Home in Glen Oaks, Queens, New York City on Dec. 23, 1964. With a wary eye, Gay tries to watch the straightening process as one friend stretches her hair with a comb and another does the ironing, in the Stilley kitchen. (via Anorak)
In the 70s, Japan was terrorized by sukeban gangs of teenage girls who carried razor blades underneath their school skirts. Unsurprisingly, it inspired a whole generation of filmmakers and teen rebels.
One of the best-known Danish Bronze Age burials, the well preserved Egtved Girl was found in a barrow in 1921. Her woolen clothing, hair, and nails were perfectly preserved, but all her bones were missing. Scientists studying the ancient teenager’s remains in 2015 made the surprising discovery that the Egtved Girl traveled great distances before her death, and wasn’t from Denmark at all.
THESE harrowing pictures of a teenage girl awaiting her torture and death at the hands of Nazi torture specialists lay bare the tragic human toll of the Holocaust. The gaunt face of 14-year-old pri…
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