The Radical Kindness of Teenage Girls

They build each other up, mindful that the world will try to tear them down

Laura Todd Carns
Human Parts
Published in
6 min readJan 21, 2019

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Billie Eilish onstage at the 9:30 Club, Washington, D.C., November 7, 2018. Photo: Laura Todd Carns

TThe show doesn’t start for another hour, but the line to get into the 9:30 Club already stretches around the corner. It’s cold, and my 14-year-old daughter is restless, her blood pumping with the nervous excitement that accompanies a first-time experience. We thread our way…

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Laura Todd Carns
Human Parts

Freelancer & fictioneer. Contributor to Medium pubs Human Parts, GEN, Curious; bylines elsewhere in WaPo, Quartz, EL, The Lily & more. www.lauratoddcarns.com