Claire Marie Healy’s writing and curated projects explore film, art, fashion, and the internet, with a focus on the experiences of young women. Formerly the editor of Dazed, she has since edited publications on roller discos, dancefloors and SFX makeup for places like IDEA and A24. Her writing has been published by the Tate ("Girlhood", 2023), The Guardian, Dirt, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Cultured, Real Review and others, and she is also a Contributing Editor for AnOther, where her Girlhood Studies column has lived since 2019. Lately, Claire has been working on a new history of girlhood as told through clothing and makeup. 

Books mentioned: ’Girlhood’ by Marie Claire Healy, ’A Summer Bird-Cage’ by Margaret Drabble,

’Women in the Picture’ by Catherine McCormack, ’The Untethered Soul’ by Michael Singer.

Movies mentioned: Virgin suicides, Marie Antoinette, The Beguiled, Hoard, Maxine.