Culture of Mending: A Conversation with Maria Ezcurra

In this episode we speak with artist and educator Maria Ezcurra who inspired us with the title, “Culture of Mending”. Through her visual art and writing Maria explores themes like dress and the social construction of gender, gender-based violence, identity and belonging.

Maria Ezcurra: https://www.mariaezcurra.com

Interwoven with her visual and written work, we discuss the December 2020 issue of Girlhood Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, on “The Lives of Girls and Young Women in the Time of COVID-19”. And the March 2021 issue “Girls and Rape Culture”.

Girlhood Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal: https://www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/girlhood-studies/girlhood-studies-overview.xml

The music for the theme song and this episode was composed and performed by Pamela Lamb.

References for this episode:

• Maria Ezcurra and Claudia Mitchell. (2018). (AD)Dressing Sexual Violence: Girls and Young Women Creatively Resisting through Dress. Disrupting Shameful Legacies.
• Claudia Mitchell and Ann Smith. (December 2020). “The Lives of Girls and Young Women in the Time of COVID-19”. Girlhood Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal.
• Olga Zdravomyslova and Elena Onegina. (December 2020).  “Russian girls construct freedom and safety in Pandemic Times". Girlhood Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal.
• Jennifer Thompson and colleagues.  (December 2020). Girls and Young Women Negotiate Wellbeing during COVID-19 in Quebec. Girlhood Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal.
• Roxanne Harde. (March 2021). “Girls and Rape Culture”. Girlhood Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal.
• Susana Sosenski. (March 2021). “Sexual Abuse of Girls in Post-Revolutionary Mexico”. Girlhood Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal.

Girlhood Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal is a peer-reviewed journal providing a forum for the critical discussion of girlhood. The Editor-in-Chief is Claudia Mitchell, and the Managing Editor is Ann Smith; both are from McGill University, Canada. International and interdisciplinary in scope, the journal is committed to feminist, anti-discrimination, and anti-oppression approaches.

The Girlhood Studies Podcast supports the journal’s work of addressing the research-to-practice gap by translating research findings into oral storytelling for new audiences. In this monthly conversation, hosts Pamela Lamb and Julia Lehmann explore themes related  to girls’ lives from the perspectives of girls themselves and members of their communities.

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