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This issue of Girlhood Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, which will be coming out at the end of August, contains a Special Section on Indigenous Girlhoods as a critical area of scholarship and activism in girlhood studies. Recognizing the need for decolonizing perspectives and approaches, the guest editors, Kirsten Lindquist, Kari-dawn Wuttunee and Sarah Flicker offer a boundary breaking collection. Alongside the fact that it is one of the first collections on Indigenous girlhoods, the Special Section is unique in several other ways. First of all, it is guest edited by an editorial team that includes two Indigenous young women, Kirsten and Kari-dawn, both members of the National Indigenous Young Women’s Council (NIYWC) and as such draws on the strength of an organization of Indigenous young women. It also highlights the significance of community alliances as represented by the contributions of Sarah who has been working with Indigenous young people in Canada for more than a decade. The collection includes submissions on Indigenous girlhoods in Canada, South Africa and Mexico, acknowledging solidarity amongst indigenous peoples globally, as recognized for example in the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Finally, it is boundary breaking in that it brings together different genres of writing and other creative productions — personal essays and reviews, poetry and visual art – and in so doing supports the idea in both theory and practice of decolonizing knowledge.

Girlhood Studies 9.2: Table of Contents

SPECIAL SECTION: Indigenous Girls
Edited by Kirsten Lindquist, Kari-dawn Wuttunee, and Sarah Flicker

EDITORIAL
Claudia Mitchell: Breaking Boundaries in Girlhood Studies

INTRODUCTION: Kirsten Lindquist, Kari-dawn Wuttunee, and Sarah Flicker: Speaking Our Truths, Building Our Strengths: Shaping Indigenous Girlhood Studies

ARTICLES

Haidee Smith Lefebvre: Overlapping Time and Place: Early Modern England’s Girlhood Discourse and Indigenous Girlhood in the Dominion of Canada (1684-1860)

Brigette Krieg: Understanding the Role of Cultural Continuity in Reclaiming the Identity of Young Indigenous Women

Natalie Clark: Red Intersectionality and Violence-informed Witnessing Praxis with Indigenous Girls
Mercedes González de la Rocha and Agustín Escobar Latapí: Indigenous Girls in Rural Mexico: A Success Story?

PERSONAL PIECES

Renée Monchalin and Lisa Monchalin: ‘Hey, Can I Call You Quick?’ Navigating the Academic Swells as Young Indigenous Women

Alexa Lesperance: Sexy Health Carnival: One Small Part of Indigenous Herstory

Amanda Buffalo: Mipit

REVIEWS

Jasmyn Galley: Sexual Politics and Cultural Oppression

Nokukhanya Ngcobo: Their Journey to Triumphant Activism: 14 Young Women Speak Out

GENERAL ARTICLES

Emily Chandler: ‘Loving and Cruel, All at the Same Time’: Girlhood Identity in The Craft

Bernice Loh: Theorizing the Adultification of Tweens’ Clothing in Singapore: A Non-Western Approach

REVIEWS

Erin Newcomb: Reading and Re-Reading Models of Girlhood

Reina Green: Attitude or Age: Girlhood in Renaissance England