This post is part of the 2013 Feminist Reads Challenge. To learn more about the challenge or join in, click here. by Izzy Labbe I was talking to my mom’s best friend the other day, and she told me a story about a project she had to do on the state of Nebraska when she was [...]
by Izzy Labbe & Julia Bluhm A little over a week ago, we flew to Washington D.C to speak at the TEDx Women conference. Our 10-minute talk was all about our experience with the Seventeen Magazine Campaign, and encouraging girls and women to join organizations like SPARK, in order to make a difference. The best [...]
In this edition of our Teen Vogue Homework, Izzy, Maya, and Julia got together to go through the August 2012 issue of Teen Vogue, marking “non-diverse” images (or images of white, thin women) with “diverse” images (images of women of color or non-thin women), and at the end of their journey, here’s what they’d found: 110 [...]
by Izzy Labbe This is part one in a four-part serial blog about sexualization in the music industry, beginning with the 1960s. I’m one of those people who can live without food and water, shelter, human interaction and all that other stuff people are supposed to have to survive, but whose body and existence will [...]
By Izzy Labbe It’s been a little over two months since awesome SPARK blogger Julia Bluhm and I walked into our cafeteria during lunchtime with my laptop, the April issue of Seventeen Magazine, and a few questions. We interviewed 15 seventh and eighth graders at our school, as well as our guidance counselor about the messages [...]
By Izzy Labbe “This is not a contact sport; it shouldn’t be an issue. It wasn’t that they were afraid they were going to hurt or injure her, it’s that (they believe) a girl’s place is not on a field.” ~ Pamela Sultzbach Paige Sultzbach is a strong, athletic 15-year-old student at Mesa Prep, a [...]
