I think perhaps if you are not familiar with queer culture lots of things going on here will escape you. The use of music is particularly good, and the images are fairly rare to this day of a teenage girl exploring gender on her own terms. I personally love this piece it is my favorite of her work. The subject tells the story of meeting a girl like her for the first time, and the interaction that follows, she finds herself in the experience of telling the story , and therefore there is no reason to ask if the story is true or not. It matters either way. This is important work, and beautiful in its own way. There are not many praised images of lesbians at all much less from this age or era.

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