- 1. Judy Blume Shares Her Own Coming-of-Age Story in New Documentary, ‘Judy Blume Forever’
- (Movies)
- ... young women to be as complicated, messy and funny as we are,” Lena Dunham, writer of HBO’s Girls, says. We also see testimonials from Anna Konkle (Pen15), Molly Ringwald (Sixteen Candles), and Samantha ...
- Created on 10 March 2023
- 2. Find Your Next Favorite Read Through These Ten BookTokers
- (Books)
- ... genre, Bookworm Bullet has almost-weekly suggestions for what to add to your TBR list. @bookwormbullet My brown girls get it #booktok #theprincessstakes #amaliehoward #historicalromance #romance #southasianbooks ...
- Created on 09 March 2023
- 3. You'll Never Guess Where You Can Find 'Zines—And Learn to Make Them—These Da
- (Books)
- Now that both record and bookstores are few and far between, where can you go to score the latest ‘zines? The answer may lie in your local library. You’re at your public library looking for a book ...
- Created on 28 November 2022
- 4. Queer Period Pieces Like Abbi Jacobson's "A League Of Their Own" Are A Reminder That LGBTQ Rights Are Still Under Atta
- (TV)
- ... of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. The main plot lines trace the queer characters as they navigate their own identities and relationships within the systemically homophobic, racist ...
- Created on 13 October 2022
- 5. 10 Protest Songs About Reproductive Health To Add To Your Feminist, Pro-Choice Playlist
- (Music)
- ... Wade was overturned, would not the desire remain intact / Leaving young girls to risk their healths / And doctors to botch, and watch as they kill themselves” I Am Jane Roe - Coco Peila Who will ...
- Created on 20 July 2022
- 6. The Secret History of Women and Mushrooms: A Centuries-Old Tale of Empowerment, Enlightenment, Education, and Magic
- (Eat Me)
- ... via mushrooms, Govera hopes to provide a bright future for others. She created The Future of Hope Foundation, which empowers young orphan girls to grow mushrooms and “envision a world where everyone can ...
- Created on 28 April 2022
- 7. What Women’s History Month Means To Me As A Young Black Woman in America... And It's Not What You Thin
- (Feminism)
- ... Women’s History Month, some girls in my grade were planning to protest how the teachers in the math and science departments treated female students and teachers. Even though I understood the issue and ...
- Created on 30 March 2022
- 8. 9 Hot Pieces of Feminist Media, Including Podcasts, Documentaries, and New Releases From Björk and Laurie Anderson
- (Arts)
- ... Courtesy of Showtime Documentary Films 3. Cusp on Showtime During a road trip across America, filmmakers Parker Hill and Isabel Bethencourt met a wild trio of teenage girls at a Texas gas station. ...
- Created on 15 February 2022
- 9. 13 Women of Color-Owned and Operated Bookstores You Can Support Right Now
- (Books)
- ... woman with her hands in all things literary, entrepreneurial, and philanthropic. She also founded the Loveland Foundation, which has a special mission of uplifting Black women and girls and showing up ...
- Created on 04 February 2022
- 10. LISTEN: The Linda Lindas Drop New Single, "Growing Up," Off Upcoming LP, and Speak To BUST About The Origins of "Racist, Sexist Bo
- (Music)
- ... find Bela and Lucia on guitar, Eloise on bass, and Mila on drums, while they all take turns on vocals. Describing their sound as “the spirit of original punk, power pop, and new wave,” the girls use their ...
- Created on 01 February 2022
- 11. Over a Century Ago, Two Young Girls Pulled a Prank That Got Way Out of Hand—And Convinced The World that Fairies Really Exist
- (Arts)
- "Fairies Offering Flowers to Iris," 1920, modeled by Elsie Wright and taken by Frances Griffiths. Credit: The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum, London Once upon a time, two girls played a prank ...
- Created on 16 December 2021
- 12. For Centuries, Halloween Was a Day for Young Women to Predict Their Future Husbands: A Look At the Unlikely Romantic History of All Hallow's Eve ...
- (General)
- ... of every letter of the alphabet and let it sit overnight. Why were these girls doing such bizarre shit? The answer is simple—it was Halloween night in 19th-century Scotland, and they were each trying ...
- Created on 21 October 2021
- 13. How Sarah Baartman’s hips went from a symbol of exploitation to a source of empowerment for Black women
- (Feminism)
- ... Africa, highlighted this tension. “I feel you do find girls like me who are not proud of what they see when they look in the mirror and they just feel like, ‘I need to drop this off,’” she said. However ...
- Created on 20 August 2021
- 14. “Gender Equitable” French Cities Are Mapping Out Budgets With a New Lens. Why Isn’t the US?
- (Feminism)
- ... correctly, gender budgeting could reinforce harmful stereotypes. Who’s to say that girls don’t also use soccer fields at a playground? The final issue is that there is no mention of how implementing ...
- Created on 08 June 2021
- 15. The Linda Lindas Just Scored A Record Deal After Performing Their Viral Song “Racist, Sexist Boy”
- (Music)
- ... Club, which is about a character who provided Asian American representation for young girls in the ’80s and ’90s when not much else of popular culture did, Variety reported. Today, the all-girl punk ...
- Created on 27 May 2021
- 16. 5 Righteous Reading Recommendations From Olaronke Akinmowo Of The Free Black Women's Librar
- (Books)
- ... about two Black teen girls who find home and safety in each other, and it captures the nuances of the Black diaspora while telling a queer story devoid of stereotypical extreme violence or pathology. I ...
- Created on 11 May 2021
- 17. Rollerskating is Back! Here 's How to Get Started, From Skate Queen Lola Sta
- (Living)
- ... Roller Rink parties wherever you are. Shannon Dsouza of the LA Roller Girls History and Culture of Rollerskating Roller skates were invented in the mid-1700s by a Belgian man named John Joseph Merlin ...
- Created on 05 May 2021
- 18. Remembering Author Beverly Cleary, Who Captured Young Imaginations Through Books Like "Ramona Quimby
- (Books)
- For fifty years, Beverly Cleary captured kids’ experiences with a bright-eyed and bushy-tailed spirit that was as rare in literature as it was real in childhood. The beloved children’s author died on ...
- Created on 29 March 2021
- 19. Learn How Women Invented TV, And Still Aren't Getting the Credit, in Jennifer Keishin Armstrong's Book "When Women Invented Televisi
- (Books)
- ... characters; The Golden Girls’ Betty White, who was the first daytime talk show host and wrote her own material; and Trinidad-born-Harlem-raised piano prodigy Hazel Scott, the first Black woman to host ...
- Created on 23 March 2021
- 20. 10 Timely, Empowering Books to Read During Women's History Mont
- (Books)
- ... that have shaped Harris’ life and political career, which will also shape her approach to the vice presidency in the years to come. Honorable mentions: The Underground Girls of Kabul by Jenny Nordberg. ...
- Created on 08 March 2021
