All Our Girls

There’s an epidemic of “hopelessness” among teenage girls and LGBTQ+ youth. Brianna Ghey lived and died in the place where they overlap.

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Here’s what is going to happen: I’m going to start talking, and together, we will see how far I can get into this essay — the one about the CDC study reporting record-high levels of trauma and despair among teen…