Frances Luk

ok girl.

From eulogies to girlhood to odes to birth control, "ok girl." is a collection of zines that explores femininity and the shame that perpetually permeates being a woman through deeply personal anecdotes recounted in poetry and intimate self-portraits that aren't always portraits.

“Girl is something to be witnessed. I am girl because you say I am. What you see, or what I think you see, is what I am. "Perceive Me" is about expectations, appearances, and the person I become when i mentally flip my reflection in the mirror to try to see your view.Girl is something to be mourned. "Eulogy to Girlhood" is exactly that: an investigation attempting to pinpoint the moment a girl dies and a woman is born in her place, examining what girl even means, and how growing up means the death of a self.Girl is something to be loved. And I love girls. "Queer Girl Laments" explores what being a girl who loves girls entails, from Catholic guilt and rage, to family tension they don’t even know exists, to learning that you are also a girl that can also be loved by yourself.Girl is something to be embodied. But girl body kinda sucks, actually. "Female Figure" is for the girls fed up of unexplained undiagnosed problems, the girls on birth control, the girls who are fed up with PMS, and the girls who are over it being explained away as something natural.”