Tag Archives: Adolescence

The Feministing Five: Rachel Simmons

By Chloe | Published: October 10, 2009
TweetRachel Simmons is a writer and a teacher who has penned two New York Times bestsellers. Not too shabby. In 2002, Simmons’ wrote Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls, which shed light on the “mean girls” phenomenon and examined for the first time the cliques and codes of teen girl culture [...]
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Precious: A Feminist Must-See

By Rose | Published: September 18, 2009
TweetI had to post a link to the new movie, Precious: I am halfway through Push, the book by Sapphire that the movie is based on. It is not often that so many issues women face are embodied in one character. From racism, sizism, sexual violence, domestic violence, welfare issues, colorism, ablism, and many, many [...]
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Strip Search at the Supreme Court

By Courtney | Published: April 22, 2009
TweetThirteen-year-old Savana Redding of Safford, Arizona, was strip searched by middle school administrators, on a tip from another student who claimed she had contraband Advil hidden in her bra. Her lawyer argued to the Supreme Court this week that school officials violated the Fourth Amendment, which prohibits unreasonable searches. School officials didn’t bother to search [...]
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Homophobic Bullying is a Problem.

By Samhita | Published: April 21, 2009
Tweet This is the second incident this month of a young man of color that killed himself because of anti-gay bullying. The first was an 11-year-old Massachusetts boy, Carl Joseph Walker-Hoover. The second is eleven year old Jaheem Herrera hung himself last week and speculation suggests it was due to homophobic bullying. Jaheem was bullied [...]
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Beautiful Girls!

By Jessica | Published: January 13, 2009
TweetI just wanted to pass this along… Each girl has her own inner beauty: the beauty of action, caring, activism. Tell us about the inner beauty of your daughter, granddaughter, niece, neighbor or student and help us to inspire girls everywhere with their own unique inner beauty. Every year, New Moon Girls magazine features 25 [...]
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