“Personally, I thank Good Girls Gone Bad [music artists] for giving me the blueprint for ignoring those around me who felt the need to tell me who I was. There will always be detractors, and someone will always think you are ‘faking it,’ but none of that matters if you know that this new and ever-cha…”— Michelle Ofiwe, rookiemag.comTagged: feminism, bad girl, Pop Culture, Womanhood
“The truth is this: No one stays the same forever. Girls grow up, and sometimes we do it with a bang. We can learn something from the Good Girls Gone Bad of every decade: how to claim yourself, how to rewrite your narrative, that it’s never too late to change.”— Michelle Ofiwe, rookiemag.comTagged: feminism, bad girl, Pop Culture, Womanhood, Growing Pains
“I’ve seen many ‘good girls go bad,’ but I specifically remember when Rihanna named her fourth album after the trope, effectively putting the industry on notice: We were about to encounter an entirely new woman... Being a young woman is complex. We’re told, in some capacity, that our silence protects…”— Michelle Ofiwe, rookiemag.comTagged: feminism, bad girl, Pop Culture, Womanhood, Growing Pains