By Bailey Shoemaker Richards Ask any girl who her favorite Disney princess is, and she’ll likely have an answer, along with a detailed explanation. Disney princesses are a ubiquitous part of childhood for millions of girls, but it wasn’t always that way, and it wasn’t even that way very recently. That’s one of the biggest [...]
Dear Jennifer Lawrence, I’m In Love With You
Posted by SPARK on May 9th, 2012
By Kaye Toal Dear Jennifer Lawrence, I’m in love with you. I hope that’s not awkward to admit and that it doesn’t, you know, complicate your day or something. I also hope whoever you’re dating, if you’re dating anyone, doesn’t completely hate me. I’m probably the LEAST threatening person to be confessing my love, anyway, [...]
Dear 11-Year-Old Me,
Posted by SPARK on May 3rd, 2012
By Ness Fraser A combination of turning 21 and becoming interested in working with adolescents has inspired me to write this post. I often wonder what I would say if I had the chance to speak to myself of a decade ago. Here are a few things I feel are important: Dear 11-year-old me, I’m [...]
Sign, Spoof and SPARK’d to Celebrate Seventeen Petition!
Posted by SPARK on May 1st, 2012
By Maya Brown This has been a busy week here at SPARK! Hot on the heels of our fantastic meeting with LEGO is a new petition (gotta love ‘em) started by SPARKteam girl activist Julia Bluhm. This fab 14 year old is calling out Seventeen Magazine on their overwhelming usage of photoshop. Julia is asking [...]
Ladylike: Being Remarkable…Like a Lady
Posted by SPARK on April 30th, 2012
By Julia Bluhm There was a time when women had to wear corsets and huge gowns. There was a time when women were expected to keep their opinions to themselves, when they were expected to lift their pinkies while they were drinking tea. They were expected to be ladylike in a time when that meant [...]
The Race of Hunger Games
By Crystal Ogar There are a number of issues when it comes to the casting of The Hunger Games. When we first meet Katniss, the main character in the books, she is described as having straight black hair, usually in a braid down her back, olive skin, and gray eyes. Funnily enough, Gale (her best [...]