Maya Brown

Why it's a problem we only see 2 types of lesbians on TV (and why I watch anyway)

by Maya Brown I’ll be the first to admit that if there are lesbians on a TV show, I will be all over that TV show. I’ll have seen all the episodes, be watching it right now, or at least have read the Autostraddle recaps to see if it’s any good. If you asked me…

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SPARK TV Week: 5 shows we're still missing

by Maya Brown If you’re getting fed up with all the new TV shows starting this month that are as sexist and stereotypical as ever (more on this tomorrow!), maybe it’s time to take it back to some classics. Here is a list to help you out with my top 5 shows to watch on…

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SPARK TV Week: 5 returning shows to check out

by Maya Brown Welcome to SPARK’s TV week! Fall means a whole new slew of TV shows and the return of some favorites. This week we’re going to do a roundup of what’s new, what’s bad, what’s coming back, and what we think is worth watching. Why? Because a lot of us have a lot…

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What girls are learning from the firing of Jill Abramson

by Maya Brown, Sam Holmes, and Madeleine Nesbitt In the past couple of weeks, the media has blown up about why the first female executive editor of the New York Times, Jill Abramson, was fired. Some sources claimed that she was fired because she brought in a lawyer to talk with her boss, Arthur Sulzberger,…

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Make room to feel it all: an interview with Andrea Gibson

by Maya Brown Andrea Gibson is a feminist spoken word artist and activist. Her poems explore gender norms and identity, bullying, war, class, race, and other subjects. I first head about Andrea Gibson when we watched one of her poems in my high school’s Gay Straight Trans Alliance, and I’ve been a huge fan of…

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10 reasons I love Lady College

by Maya Brown As I look back at my first semester of college from my own bed, I’ve come to realize that I made the perfect decision for me. It’s comforting that after a year of college application hell that I got into and actually really love the school I’m at. I love it for…

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Advice from Gloria Steinem

by Maya Brown Last month, I was lucky enough to see Gloria Steinem speak at Colby College.  Her talk was beyond fabulous, and really inspired me as a young activist and a SPARKteam member. It’s hard for me to pick out pieces to highlight because the whole talk was great, but there were three things she…

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Teen Vogue Homework Assignment #3: August 2012

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…

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