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VALLEY Magazine Issue 37, Spring 2026

Kill Your Inner Cool Girl

Creative Director & Photo Editor Diane Akpovwa

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Someone's always watching.
Kill Your Inner Cool Girl exemplifies our inner performer, urging us to examine where we censor and curate to align with external perceptions.

Based on the 1999 Big Magazine editorial featuring Gisele Bündchen, this work plays into a larger history of women as subjugated performers, offering new frameworks for contemporary female confinement, and ultimately, liberation.

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