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A white high school senior sets out to change her school’s culture of misogyny after a case of mistaken identity damages her reputation.

Eighteen-year-old Brynn attends prestigious Greenlough Academy on a scholarship. She’s earned a reputation as a “serial dater” due to her tendency for brief, casual relationships. She’s managed to parlay this experience into a side hustle as a flirting coach: She charges a fee for advising her peers on how best to communicate with their crushes and score dates. But Brynn is devastated to find her much-needed income source in jeopardy when a video circulates on social media of a girl dressed in an identical Halloween costume to the one she was wearing performing oral sex on her popular ex–best friend’s boyfriend. Everyone assumes the mystery girl in the banana costume must be Brynn—and it’s her reputation that suffers, not the boy’s. Determined to find a way to shift her classmates’ perspectives, Brynn and her friends form a club to bring about a “femolution,” denouncing sexism in their school community. Brynn’s diverse social group—including a trans girl; a pansexual, hijabi, Lebanese American girl; and a pregnant biracial (Persian and white) classmate who’s been ostracized—get to lead club discussions on topics and stigmas that affect them. These messages are powerful, but it’s Brynn’s inner monologue that has center stage, and it loses some of its initial impact because of its repetitiveness.

Girl power tackles sexism, stigma, and peer pressure in the age of social media.