“I hope she’ll be a fool—that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.”

While men objectify and sexualise the female body, women unknowingly propagate this narrative by visually appealing to the male gaze.

Considering Esther Perel's relational theory in conversation with expectations and self-worth.

It is not necessarily what we do or say, but rather what we don’t do which defines us.

Shyness is an explicitly feminine trait that complies with masculine-devised female gender norms idealised by Western society.

Bourgeois uses her own lived experience of childhood trauma to reimagine and witness the literal ‘destruction of her father’.