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BFFs: The Radical Potential of Female Friendship by Anahit Behrooz

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mariebrunelm's review

informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

This short and sweet essay from 404 Inklings is a tender and researched exploration of, like the title suggests, the potential of friendship between women (whether cis or trans). Society & culture often prefer to show us women pitted against each other, because the truth is, we are so much more powerful when we league against whoever would separate us. But this essay also celebrates intimacy beyond romantic & sexual relationships, and I loved it for that. Behrooz explores with care and well-chosen words the unique bond between girls or women who share absolute trust. She charts portrayals in books, movies, tv shows and in her own experience to invite us to think or maybe rethink friendship as just important, if not more, as romantic and sexual relationships.

vanitas's review against another edition

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medium-paced

3.0

emilyhastings's review

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5.0

"I have always been unlucky in romance, and lucky in friendship. I almost wrote "unlucky in love", but that is not true; yet the instinct exists - to pour all our experience of love into one particular vessel. My friendships have been vast, encompassing, and structuring, framing all the important and unimportant moments in my life. There have been friends at parties and as neighbours and in hospitals and running errands and holding my hand, screaming off the edge of a sharp cliff. I don't really think of them as family, because this implies that family is the only way to practise such strong bonds of care. They are just, in every way, crucial to my life; to the everyday and the grand future and everything in between."

cellamar's review

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emotional informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.0

elizabstevensx's review

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emotional funny hopeful informative medium-paced

4.0

Great source material for new play! Was practically a library of my references for life and brought with it an a cute awareness that my brand is female friendships. Greys Anatomy, Animals, Frances Ha, Booksmart, Little Women, the list goes on!

Informative and a little emotional in the places it needed to be. Lush!