Girlhood

At a strict Himalayan boarding school, a teenager’s sexual awakening collides with institutional discipline and her mother’s interrupted youth, making desire an intergenerational feminist question.

Three girls grow up in a Mexican poppy-growing region where mothers disguise daughters from armed men, making girlhood, friendship, and protective care the center of narco-violence.

Reshma Saujani uses electoral defeat and coding classrooms to distinguish inability from hiding unfinished work, connecting courage with support and institutions.