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 Eliana Buenrostro In real Rookie style, I wrote something really honest about my love of Tavi and Rookie Mag–because if there’s anything Rookie has taught me, it’s to embrace the things you love with joyful innocence. I am a huge Tavi fan. I’m not going to talk about what people in the fashion industry…
by Eliana Buenrostro For the past 3 months, I’ve really enjoyed watching The Legend of Korra on Nickelodeon. For those whose don’t know, The Legend of Korra is a follow up to the critically acclaimed series Avatar: the Last Airbender, which aired on Nick from 2005 to 2008. Avatar is heavily inspired by distinct Asian…
By Eliana Buenrostro To many, Taylor Swift is a breath of fresh of air, a nice change from the many overproduced sexualized pop stars. She plays guitar and writes her own songs. Swift has been lauded as a role model for young girls and she might be single handedly responsible for bringing pop country songs…
[Ed. note: this post in solidarity with Ethnic Studies students and educators in Arizona is inspired by FAAN Mail’s #WishiLearnedinHS campaign. For more information about the Ethnic Studies ban, including a list of books confiscated from Arizona public schools, please click here.] By Eliana Buenrostro On Februrary 1 2012, the bill HB 2281 went into effect…
By Eliana Buenrostro As a feminist, I am constantly hearing about the ways companies continue to treat the differences between girls and boys as innate. But this past Christmas, it really hit home when I heard about the toys my cousins received. My 6-year-old cousin received a Nintendo 3DS – a game with infinite play…
By Eliana Buenrostro I spend a lot of time watching television and a lot of that time is spent indulging in children’s television. These days I rarely see something that is a positive influence on girls or boys. The emphasis in a lot of the shows is appearance, with very little diversity in the types…
The media doesn’t represent us–so we’re making our own media. We’re sick of media that shows women and girls as weak, catty, looks-obsessed, boy-crazy objects of pleasure, so the SPARKteam is joining Miss Representation in demanding media that fairly, fully, and accurately represents women. For every 1000 videos submitted, the folks at the Miss Representation campaign…