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International Day of the Girl and Intersectionality: Forming Inseparable...
Celebrating International Day of the Girl was an amazing experience, especially because the movement and its message has grown to be very important to me. As we prepared our International Day of the...
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How I Have Learned About Girls Education in India
The International Day of the Girl Assembly at Elisabeth Irwin High School was a tremendous success. My role during this assembly was to read some facts and statistics about girls’ education in India. I...
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The Voices of Eternity: Celebrating International Day of the Girl
Picture this: You’re a sixteen year old girl, you’re standing on stage, everyone is looking directly at you, all ready to listen and Here I am reading an excerpt from my intersectionality essay for the...
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My Misinformed Male Brain Needs Feminism
I need feminism because how else will I see the truth? (photo credit: Ileana Jiménez). Before I took this high school class on feminism, I had all the wrong ideas about feminism, but I did not know I...
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International Day of the Girl: Teaching the School, Teaching Myself
On Tuesday, October 8, 2013, my high school feminism class hosted an assembly at our school to mark the second-ever International Day of the Girl. This assembly gave our peers a taste of what our class...
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Transforming Silence into Language and Action on International Day of the Girl
Reading my personal essay during our school’s assembly on International Day of the Girl (photo credit: Lexie Clinton). Audre Lorde proclaims in her essay entitled, “The Transformation of Silence to...
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The Fierce Activism of Feminist Theatre in Slut: The Play
October 11, 2013 marked the second commemoration of the International Day of the Girl Child, established on December 19, 2011 by the United Nations General Assembly with Resolution 66/170. My feminism...
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Malala and Me
It is sad to think that a day as important as International Day of the Girl (IDG) was only created last year in 2012. There are women around the world who fight for equality like Malala Yousafzai and...
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Turning Silence into Action: One Boy’s Reflection on International Day of the...
Here I am reading a poem I wrote for International Day of the Girl (photo credit: Lexie Clinton). When I first learned that our feminism class was going to be sharing our intersectionality essays in...
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Girl Power: Overcoming Silence!
Here I am reading my personal essay on race, class, and gender on our International Day of the Girl assembly(photo credit: Lexie Clinton). International Day of the Girl is October 11 each year. On that...
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Slut: The Play and the Word “Slut”
Image credit: http://sluttheplay.com Slut: The Play is about sixteen-year-old Joey Del Marco who has a life-altering Friday night out after having been raped by her high school friends. Joey speaks up...
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Feminism Has Changed Me: Claiming My Black Latina Identity
Here I am sharing my Intersectionality piece at our International Day of the Girl Assembly (photo credit: Lexie Clinton). Throughout the last few weeks, I have been introduced to a powerful movement...
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Stopping Slut-Shaming and Supporting Girls’ Education for International Day...
Here I am speaking at the International Day of the Girl assembly at my school (photo credit: Lexie Clinton). Within just a few short weeks, the Fierce and Fabulous: Feminist Women Writers, Artists, and...
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Nirbhaya, the Play, Sparks Attention to Rape Culture in India and Around the...
The start of Nirbhaya, Poorna Jagannathan visited our high school feminism class (middle, front row). I am sitting next to her to the right. (photo credit: Lexie Clinton) I can still remember how I...
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Breaking Silences Creates a Safe Space for Women of Color
Here I am sharing my own definitions of feminism during our feminism class’s annual International Day of the Girl assembly. I’m breaking silences (photo credit: Lexie Clinton). I agree with what bell...
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Women of Color Break Silences on Caretaking in the Face of Mass Incarceration
Idyllic illustrations show the tasks of a 1950’s housewife. (Image credit: The Mamafesto blog by Avital Norman Nathman.) My mind has recently been blown open about women’s traditional domestic roles....
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Global Feminism: Not Just For India But For All of Us
An illustration depicting global feminism Credit: Gawk | Global Feminisms As Audre Lorde points out, “Black feminism is not white feminism in black face.” This means that while being a woman comes with...
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To Be Or Not To Be…A Girl
My high school feminism classmates at the Girls Speak Out event at the UN for International Day of the Girl. In my high school feminism class so far, I have experienced feminism through a different...
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Definition of a Girl: It’s More than Just Someone Who Faces Sexism
“Girls should….stay home, be slaves, be in the kitchen not speak in church” (credit: Ogilvy & Mather, Dubai, UAE) “Girls are crippled when they fall under the spell of perfectionism,” said a girl...
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The Girl Behind The Mission: A Review of He Named Me Malala
Pictured above: the promotional poster for He Named Me Malala (photocredit: Screenrelish) He Named Me Malala, directed by Davis Guggenheim, was a very well made, easily digestible biopic that detailed...
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