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I have never read a Judy Blume book. I have always been a big reader, but in my 29 years, Blume’s books somehow never made their way to me, despite the reading of them being classically recognized as a rite of passage for girls navigating youth and young adulthood. This isn’t totally surprising; I am Black, and many things in the cultural canon that are considered universal—Friends, the Beach Boys, Blume—are much more familiar to white Americans than they are to me. I just assumed that Blume’s writing, like many of the cultural phenomena that are supposed to define white girlhood, wasn’t for me.

Slate     May 08, 2025