by YingYing Shang Would you like to see real young feminists on TV? How about discussing the women’s movement today on a panel of teens with mixed opinions? Then tune into Nick News on Monday, April 1st, at 8pm! Back in November, I and two other members of the SPARKteam, Sariel and Britney, travelled to [...]
From Beyonce to Rihanna to Taylor Swift to Adele, the pop music landscape is not exactly hurting for women right now. But we could always use a few more ladies killin’ it in the music scene, right?! Some of the SPARKteam came together to talk about their fave female musicians, songwriters, singers, and female-fronted bands, [...]
by Britney Franco As a follow up to my last post, I decided to interview a fellow schoolmate about the issue of sexism. That schoolmate is one of my best friends, Polina Solovyeva. I thought that getting the opinion of someone my age would be fitting. We’ve heard a lot about sexism and misogyny, but [...]
by Britney Franco As I get older, more sexism enters my life. As people at school learn that I’m a feminist, their reactions range from “Oh, cool” to “What’s feminism?” to “-insert joke about feminists here-”. In fact, one of my classmates kept telling me a feminist joke; I believe it was “How many feminists [...]
by Britney Franco Yesterday, we SPARK girls had a mock fashion show outside of the Condé Nast building in Times Square, New York, and publicly voiced our opinion on how Teen Vogue alters the bodies of the girls who appear in their publication. We made sure that people saw how girls were affected by this; after all, 75% [...]
