About Koa Beck
What is Valley Girl?
Valley Girl is a weekly interrogation and cultural study of the “Valley Girl1” stereotype across American culture, history, and lived experience. Every Thursday, I publish an essay analyzing how this gender trope was created and exported. Valley Girl also underscores the women and nonbinary people who have actually inhabited the geographical space of the San Fernando Valley, beyond the cultural stereotype.
Through external archives, personal research, and the history of my own valley-based family, I’m hoping to offer you a deconstruction of the Valley Girl specifically from an intersectional feminist perspective.
Who Writes Valley Girl?