Make some noise

Hannah Seo explores a pressure she experienced as a girl: the urge to change her voice. In an essay for Psyche, she draws on Anne Carson's scholarship about ancient Greece to show that this expectation is far from new. It's a reflection on just how deeply—and how long—that particular gendered pressure has persisted.

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