// Preliminaries //
‘THE YOUNG-GIRL RESEMBLES HER PHOTO’
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Let’s be clear: the concept of the Young-Girl is obviously not a gendered concept.
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Behind every Young-Girl’s arse hides a bunch of rich white men: the task is surely not, then, to destroy the Young-Girl, but to destroy the system that makes her, and makes her so unhappy, whoever she is.
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YGRG started in autumn of 2013 in Berlin.
// The Young Girl Reading Group as Phenomenon //
Beyond the tide, the first lines, and the last full stop, beyond its internal configuration and its autonomous form, YGRG is caught up in a system of references to other texts, other sentences: it is a node within network.
We are all bot-poets.
Our identities are somewhat interchangeable, ratifiable.
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Following text will be read during the event: Speech Sounds by Octavia Butler