by Julia Bluhm I am a shy person. I don’t think I ever really hated anything about myself except for that. Being shy used to make me really mad, because I had this constant rush of thoughts and ideas that flew through my mind, but it was like no one even knew. I felt like people [...]
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 [...]
by Julia Bluhm You know how when something awesome happens, it takes a long time for it to sink in, and for you to realize what’s actually happening? That was how I was feeling the morning of October 13th. I woke up to a beeping alarm, curled up deep inside the covers of a floral-print [...]
by Julia Bluhm My mother made me costumes Made from colorful cloth and itchy Velcro, Of mostly ballerina-princesses, And fairies dressed in rainbow. After that phase passed, I wasn’t stopping. I got my first taste of online shopping. I was too “grown-up” for mom’s designs, But what I wanted was still hard to find. All [...]
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 Julia Bluhm We all know that the media’s messages are having more and more of an effect on kids. Whether you’re reading a book, watching a movie, or just taking a walk down the toy aisle, everything marketed towards girls is pink, has to do with beauty, or ends with a prince charming sweeping [...]
