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Why Is Feminism a Bad Word?
After reading multiple people’s opinion on other blogs/websites and after reading the fourth chapter in Rory Dicker’s book, A History of U.S. Feminisms, I realized something. Somewhere in the 20th...
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Building A National Curriculum for Future Feminists
Education is the key to success. And if we want the feminist movement to be successful, we need to educate people on the matter. My dream would be for feminism and feminist theory to be a mandatory...
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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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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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Bringing Change to Our Community: Reflections on International Day of the Girl
My high school feminism class on International Day of the Girl 2012 (photo credit: Laura Hahn). I was part of organizing and delivering an assembly for International Day of the Girl. This experience...
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Girls Are Not For Sale Benefit for GEMS Highlights Girls’ Empowerment
Girls who have been helped by GEMS on stage during the benefit (photo credit: Miral Rivalta). A few weeks ago, I attended a benefit for GEMS, Girls Educational and Mentoring Services. GEMS is an...
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Feminist Media: Because “Gratitude Never Radicalized Anybody”
When I think about how feminist media plays a role in my understanding of feminism today, I am immediately reminded of something Susan B. Anthony once said of her work in the suffrage movement: “Our...
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Women: “The Oppressed Majority” and the Effects of the Media
In our time, the thing that holds the most power all over the world is the media. No one lives through one day, where they haven’t had some connection to the Internet, television, newspaper, billboards...
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Discovering My Feminist Toolbox
I need feminism because I cannot accept how prevalent injustice has become. (photo credit: Ileana Jiménez). I need feminism because I cannot accept how prevalent injustice has become in our society. I...
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Through the Eyes of a Feminist Boy
Here I am opening our feminism class assembly for International Day of the Girl (photo credit: Lexie Clinton). I am a 17-year-old white, upper middle class, Jewish boy living in the Bronx. I am part of...
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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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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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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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Finding My True Self With Feminism
Here I am talking about Malala Yousafsai on International Day of the Girl at my school (photo credit: Lexie Clinton). Before taking my high school feminism class, I never thought twice about issues...
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Coming to Feminism, Coming of Age
Here I am (black jacket) awaiting my turn to read my personal essay during our high school feminism class assembly for International Day of the Girl (photo credit: Lexie Clinton). In the last month, I...
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I Need Feminism Because Future Generations Need to Create Change
“I need feminism because future generations need feminism just as much.” (photo credit: Ileana Jiménez). Several months have gone by and our high school feminism class has come to an end. Luckily for...
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Why I Need Feminism: Stop the Girl on Girl Crimes!
“I need feminism because I’ve got a lot on my plate without a side order of racist, classist, conformist, capitalist, patriarchal bullshit.” (photo credit: Ileana Jiménez). When faced with the...
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Enough is Enough: Done With Being The Quiet Good Girl
“I need feminism because I need to destroy all the Latino myths told to future generations. I need to be public and fierce.”(photo credit: Ileana Jiménez) I need feminism because I need to destroy all...
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Finding My Feminist Stand Through Media and the Arts
“I need feminism because…I wasn’t born in BOX.” (Photo credit:Ileana Jiménez). I need feminism because I wasn’t born in a box. I should not have to live in a world where I feel like my gender and my...
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A Letter to My Grama, Who Is Afraid of the Word Feminist
“I need feminism because it defines me as a conscious woman. I have been exposed to a different way of thinking that properly influences my womanhood.” (photo credit: Ileana Jiménez) Dear Grama, I...
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