«The hardship begins»
The phenomenon appeared four years ago, to the point that currently, hundreds of life stories — named « chronicles » — are circulating on the Internet. The authors, aged between 16-25 years old, are using Facebook, the famous social network website, to write and publish their stories. Followed by thousands of fans, they are trying to relate their life in the hood. For those young people from poor neighborhoods, writing and reading experience is part of the experience of « the thug life », as well as a reflexive work on it. After clarifying the nature of these narrative undertakings, this article proposes to explore one of them, in order to understand the specific way girls live the « thug life ».