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The Tweets of a Girl who Murdered her BFF
Two Morgantown, West Virginia high school girls Rachel Shoaf and Shelia Eddy murdered their best friend and classmate Skylar Neese on the night of July 5, 2012. They stabbed her to death in a remote...
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Global Girls’ Education: It’s Not a Given
My daughter is lucky. In a few months, she will graduate from eighth grade and will attend high school at an amazing place that has as one of its missions the fostering of girls’ leadership abilities....
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Why Is North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory Afraid of a 12-Year-Old Girl?
One 12-year-old North Carolina schoolgirl thinks it’s crazy that her governor is afraid of teens in that state pre-registering to vote so they are automatically part of the voter rolls when they turn...
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“Embrace”: The Documentary That Could Save Our Girls
When was the last time you loved your body? Or, as some attorneys might say in a court room, is that assuming a fact not in evidence? Have you ever loved your body? We’ve seen a variety of campaigns...
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American Girls’ Journey “Home” in Rural China
Touching Home in China: in search of missing girlhoods is a transmedia iBook in the making. When published in September 2015, a mesh of video and interactive maps, photo galleries and informational...
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Madonna’s “Like A Virgin” Hits 30: Ode to a Gen X Theme Song
Madonna changed teenage girls’ lives in 1984, and we never looked back. On November 6 of that year, Sire Records released “Like A Virgin,” a racy pumping ode to love, romance and sex. Madonna using the...
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The Feminist Toy Box
So, I ordered a set of Disney princess dress up clothes for my daughter. I hesitated over the image on my phone screen for a while, wondering about the implications of a feminist mother purchasing...
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Talking to My Son About Rape Culture
I found out my 12-year-old son and his friends had been using a term I hadn’t heard before: “rape face.” The next day I saw his buddy tag a photo of himself on Instagram with #rapeface. So we sat down...
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President Obama Helps These Girls Scouts See Themselves as President
Girl Scouts in uniform make a powerful picture. Recently, the White House released a photo of President Obama posing with a Brownie Troop and they are all wearing tiaras on their heads. Some have...
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My 18 Year Old Daughter Is In Jail And I’m Second Guessing Every Choice I Made
With her 18-year-old daughter in a jail cell for stealing, one chance encounter in the bathroom of an Atlanta detention center changes everything about the choices we second guess when it all goes...
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Why Aren’t the Duggars Talking About Their Daughters?
On their television show, 19 Kids and Counting, the Duggars appeared happy like some sort of twisted version of the Von Trapp clan in “The Sound of Music.” But that was likely far from the case – as...
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So Much for “Scout’s Honor”
The Girl Scouts of America is moving into the 21st century with its recent announcement that the organization will now be allowing transgender youth into the organization. Not surprisingly, they are...
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A Mother’s Response to The New York Times: Campus Suicide is More Complicated...
Suicide is complicated. Before it touched my family, I never would have considered it within the realm of possibility. And once it happened, I noticed that people — well meaning people — started...
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Straight Talk From a Teen About Sexual Assault
Gabi Schiller is a typical American teen. And she’s fed up with sexual assault victims being shamed. Gabi Schiller is an 18-year-old artist and student at Skidmore College who took a gap year after...
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Six Reasons “Shake It Off” Should Be Hillary Clinton’s Campaign Theme Song
No Fleetwood Mac nostalgia for a second Hillary Clinton run. No Golden Earring or Celine Dion. She needs something current, especially as naysayers focus on her Baby Boomer age. Toss in some music...
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