By Anna Hill What exactly is hope? And how can we use it to keep going in the face of oppression, fear and trauma? I don’t have a solid answer for the first question (except maybe the words “warm yellow light” like physically, but also in ur soul), and as for the second I think…
Brought to you by Powered By Girl Trigger warning – Orlando shooting Here is a page dedicated to all those who lost their lives in the Orlando shooting at Pulse night club. 49 people were killed on Saturday – the biggest mass shooting in recent US history. They were queer people, predominantly Latinx queer people. As the…
For this month’s installment of Women’s History Year, Izzy Labbe talks about two women who inspire her: Josephine Baker and Wendy Davis. Check it out below and send us your own videos at sparkteam at sparksummit dot com! More on Josephine Baker More on Wendy Davis…
For this month’s installment of Women’s History Year, SPARKteam activist Georgia talks about two women who inspire her most: Emily Dickinson and her mother. Watch it below, and send us your own videos at sparkteam@sparksummit.com. The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson…
by Bailey Shoemaker Richards Back in 2011 and early 2012, SPARK and LEGO had a meeting about LEGO’s problems with gender representation. A little over a year later, I thought it was time to revisit the issue, see how LEGO is doing, and whether they were living up to our expectations. It’s especially timely as…
by Alice Wilder For my May Women’s History Year video I interviewed my sister Coco, who stopped at home on her way to A-Camp, and my friend Dina Badawy. I met Dina at a screening of Miss Representation and we had an immediate connection. Both women have a warm, generous energy and came with wonderful stories.…
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 Izzy Labbe I am in a lover’s quarrel right now. Not with an actual person, but rather, one of my favorite magazines: Seventeen Magazine. Yeah, yeah, I know. This is the part where you all gasp and run away from me. Shock! Horror! Disaster! A feminist who loves Seventeen! Can it be so? Well…