Girl Trouble

Diana Whitney is a queer writer and educator embracing a fierce belief in the power of poetry as a means of connection to self and others. She is the editor of the bestselling anthology You Don’t Have to Be Everything: Poems for Girls Becoming Themselves, winner of the Claudia Lewis Award, and the author of two full-length poetry collections, Wanting It and Dark Beds. An advocate for survivors of sexual violence in her Vermont hometown and beyond, Diana works as a community organizer for a rural LGBTQ+ nonprofit.

• TROUBLED & TROUBLINGWatching Thelma and Louise during Lockdown with My Daughters Girl TroublePenalty BoxAcorns After School with D’Aulaires’ Book of Greek Myths Supply and DemandMy 6th Grade Self Strikes Out Jason Tournay My 7th Grade Self Sends Nudes to Nate Griffin Playdate I Bring My Secret Home from Junior HighUnder My Thumb Prom After-Party Revisited Steubenville SestinaCenterfoldLet Me Walk You through It CROSS ME TWICEHate Poem for Animal House Pastoral with Hooters Decal There’s No Normal Anymore, Says the Minister of FarmingSons and MothersNightshadeTake It Back acrostic dispatch from the 90s Phantom ZenithTiny StarsMy Phone Reminds Me It’s Mercury Retrograde Big Brothers For Women: How to Prevent Acquaintance Rape (1988) HauntedHeadlamp & Starshine OPEN SECRETLeotards Girls Who Had Nothing Open Secret Girls Who Had Nothing Attribution Error Girls Who Had Nothing Dominion Survivor Song PRAISE THE ENDINGQueen of Swords Body CountHumConstellation of SatellitesSupercolliderCharlie’s Angels My 16-Year-Old Self Makes Out with Jaimie Rossi My 17-Year-Old Self Gets Voted Best Body My 18-Year-Old Self Tells Chris Warren to Wear a Condom First World ProblemsThe AnimalsGlitter Praise Poem for 8th Grade GraduationThe Ever GivenOde to Susan, X-Ray TechnicianGemini Moon NOTES ACKNOWLEDGMENTS