Tag Archives: girls
You won’t allow me to go to school. I won’t become a doctor. Remember this: One day you will be sick. Poem written by an 11 year old Afghan girl This poem was recorded in a NYT magazine article about female underground poetry groups in Afghanistan. An amazing article about the ways in which women …
newyorker: Chibok residents said that they had heard the terrorist group Boko Haram was coming to the town up to two hours before the kidnapping of over 300 schoolgirls. The military only sent more troops several hours after the abduction. Alexis Okeowo writes about the troubled search for Nigeria’s girls: http://nyr.kr/1nj2tD3 Above: Mothers of kidnapped …
Young Women and Social Media
I’m currently reading a lot about the way teenagers use social media, partly for my thesis, and partly based on fascination. One of the aspects that interest me in this context is the connection of speech/voice and space in relation to the new possibilities of the internet. I just finished danah boyd’s great new book …
More Girls Target Archery, Inspired By ‘The Hunger Games’ : NPR
Via teachingliteracy: The indoor shooting range at Archery In The Wild in Northern Colorado used to be dominated by camouflage and hunters. But on this Saturday morning, the archery range is dotted with ponytails and 7-year-old girls like Y’Jazzmin Christopher. The popularity of The Hunger Games series is fueling an interest in the sport of archery, particularly among …
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J.D. Salinger’s Nine Stories
I recently discovered this collection of short stories by J.D. Salinger in my parents’ basement. I wish I’d discovered it years earlier, for a simple egoistic reason: I might’ve enjoyed the book more before I sharpened my feminist-critical blades. Before I grew weary of male novelist tropes. (Passages of the text could easily be more …
slaughterhouse90210: “Things might have been different if she hadn’t been able to drift; if she’d had to concentrate on her next meal, instead of dwelling on all the injuries she felt we’d done her. An unearned income encourages self-pity in those already prone to it.” ― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin
How to Talk to Little Girls
This is a interesting text by Lisa Bloom on how to talk to little girls – without reinforcing the belief/stereotype/pressure that their looks are the most important thing about a girl. The basic idea is to engage girls of all ages in a conversation about things they like – books, for example – besides being …
My stories are not uncommon. They’re more common than we want to think. As my friend Panic said: “Ask anyone who is or has been a teenaged girl. 15-yr-old boys assaulting women is common. It’s ‘normal.’” It’s so normal, in fact, that we don’t talk about it until we’re women and we know it doesn’t …
Rush Limbaugh and 16-year Old Girls.
Beantown Mom, a blogger over at Daily Kos, tells the harrowing story of how her 16-year old daughter was slut-shamed for simply being on the pill. High school kids have always been mean and used excuses to pick on ‘weaker’ kids, and there has pretty much always been slut-shaming, but in this case the harassing girls specifically …
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