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Girls Like Girls
Movie

Girls Like Girls

2026Drama, Romance

Woke Score
5.2
out of 10

Plot

Coley, 17, from rural Oregon, navigates intimacy after her mother's passing. Meeting Sonya sparks new feelings, but self-doubt hinders their connection. Sonya, unfamiliar with dating girls, is uncertain. They learn to embrace emotions.

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Overall Series Review

Girls Like Girls (2026) is a coming-of-age romantic drama directed by Hayley Kiyoko, adapted from her song and young adult novel. Set in 2006, the story follows seventeen-year-old Coley as she moves to rural Oregon following her mother's death and develops a complex romantic connection with a local girl, Sonya. The film focuses almost exclusively on themes of sapphic romance, teenage closeted anxiety, and self-acceptance. While it functions primarily as an intimate character drama rather than an overt political lecture, its narrative choices strongly lean on modern identity-focused tropes, particularly in its framing of sexuality and male characters.

Categorical Breakdown

Identity Politics5/10

Diverse casting choices define the lead dynamic, and male figures are portrayed as arrogant or antagonistic contrast points to the empathetic female leads. Broad systemic preachy lecturing is largely replaced by personal identity dynamics.

Oikophobia3/10

Rural small-town America in the mid-2000s is presented as a stifling environment for non-conforming teenagers. The narrative focuses on personal claustrophobia rather than active civilizational condemnation.

Feminism5/10

Female relationships serve as the sole source of emotional maturity and personal fulfillment. Male characters are relegated to selfish boyfriends or distant parental figures.

LGBTQ+10/10

Queer discovery and sapphic desire are the primary drivers of the entire narrative. The story explicitly centers on deconstructing heteronormative dating patterns in favor of lesbian romance.

Anti-Theism3/10

Religious faith is completely omitted, presenting a thoroughly secular worldview where personal fulfillment and emotional truth replace traditional transcendent moral standards.

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