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Powered by Girl

by Lyn Mikel Brown
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A playbook for working with and training girls to be activists of their own social movements
Drawing from a diverse collection of interviews with women and girl activists, Powered by Girl is both a journalistic exploration of how girls have embraced activism and a guide for adults who want to support their organizing. Here we learn about the intergenerational support behind thirteen-year-old Julia Bluhm when she got Seventeen to go Photoshop free; nineteen-year-old Celeste Montaño, who pressed Google to diversify their Doodles; and sixteen-year-old Yas Necati, who campaigns for better sex education. And we learn what experienced adult activists say about how to scaffold girls’ social-change work. Brown argues that adults shouldn’t encourage girls to “lean in.” Rather, girls should be supported in creating their own movements—disrupting the narrative, developing their own ideas—on their own terms.
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Publisher: Beacon Press

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  • Release date: September 13, 2016

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  • ISBN: 9780807094617
  • File size: 535 KB
  • Release date: September 13, 2016

EPUB ebook

  • ISBN: 9780807094617
  • File size: 535 KB
  • Release date: September 13, 2016

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Kindle Book
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Education Sociology Nonfiction

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English

A playbook for working with and training girls to be activists of their own social movements
Drawing from a diverse collection of interviews with women and girl activists, Powered by Girl is both a journalistic exploration of how girls have embraced activism and a guide for adults who want to support their organizing. Here we learn about the intergenerational support behind thirteen-year-old Julia Bluhm when she got Seventeen to go Photoshop free; nineteen-year-old Celeste Montaño, who pressed Google to diversify their Doodles; and sixteen-year-old Yas Necati, who campaigns for better sex education. And we learn what experienced adult activists say about how to scaffold girls’ social-change work. Brown argues that adults shouldn’t encourage girls to “lean in.” Rather, girls should be supported in creating their own movements—disrupting the narrative, developing their own ideas—on their own terms.
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Education Sociology Nonfiction
  • Details

    Publisher:
    Beacon Press

    Kindle Book
    Release date: September 13, 2016

    OverDrive Read
    ISBN: 9780807094617
    File size: 535 KB
    Release date: September 13, 2016

    EPUB ebook
    ISBN: 9780807094617
    File size: 535 KB
    Release date: September 13, 2016

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  • Formats
    Kindle Book
    OverDrive Read
    EPUB ebook
  • Languages
    English