Growing up, girls often encounter the cumbersome obligation of being chaste and intelligent, feminine and decisive, or emotive but crafty. Speak to any woman in your family. You will learn how they felt stifled by the unbearable weight of being socially and culturally acceptable versions of themselves. If god forbid, they choose to evolve out of the boxes constructed to hold them, they were reprimanded — asked to toe the line, reduce themselves, shed their skin, and become polite porcelain dolls. Countless women struggle daily with these demons, but one chose to capture it poignantly: Jamie Schofield Riva. Her series, Girlhood: Lost and Found, is thought-provoking, as it urges one to accept their true self.
