Ty Slobe

Why intergenerational feminism matters

by Ty Slobe I can’t remember a time growing up when I didn’t idolize older girls. When I was in middle school, I dreamt of being in high school and having cool friends with licenses who frequented concerts and looked awesome at proms. When I was in high school, I dreamt of being in college…

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Help the Obama Administration fight sexual assault on college campuses

by Ty Slobe Universities have a responsibility to protect students from violence, discrimination, harassment, and assault. When something violent happens to students on or off campus, universities have a responsibility to handle these cases in an appropriate way that keeps the campus community and the victim safe. Given this extremely basic responsibility that schools owe…

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Girl Talk (is actually pretty great despite old men who think it's 'annoying')

by Ty Slobe Whether we’re talking online or IRL, it seems that everyone takes issue with the ways that girls and women communicate: our voices, spelling, abbreviations, styles, words, manner, and language as a whole are discussed like we are orally spreading the plague. Our communication styles are scrutinized and blatantly judged by journalists and…

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Brave Girls Want Change

by Ty Slobe If you are in-tune with marketing and media aimed at young girls, you’ve probably noticed how limiting it can be when it comes to the kinds of girls who are portrayed. Girls are pigeonholed into princesses, pink-lovers, makeup artists, shoe-fanatics, and other “girly” stereotypes. Girls are taught from an early age that…

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Women's History Year: August

by Ty Slobe This month for Women’s History Year, I talked to my friend and former classmate Mandy Rose. Mandy’s an inspiration to girls and women because of her AMAZING skills when it comes to being a single mother, her commitment to school,and her incredible poetry. Some of her work can be found in A…

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Sheryl Sandberg is Leaning In to Paying her Interns

by Ty Slobe Last week, LeanIn.Org’s editor Jessica Bennett posted on her Facebook page a message about looking for an unpaid intern to fill a position with the organization. It read as follows: “Wanted: Lean In editorial intern, to work with our editor (me) in New York. Part-time, unpaid, must be HIGHLY organized with editorial and…

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Rachel Jeantel Does Not Need to Justify Her Language to Anyone, but Americans Need to Be More Open to Linguistic Diversity

by Ty Slobe Racism comes in many forms. Sometimes racism manifests in the racial profiling of strangers, the way it did on the night that George Zimmerman stalked and killed Trayvon Martin. Sometimes racism is legally institutionalized, the way it is in laws like Florida’s Stand Your Ground law. Sometimes racism is more subtle, and…

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Where are Young Feminists? Right Here.

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by Tyanna Slobe Lately I’ve been seeing a lot of presumptuous chitter-chatter in the media about how young feminists do not exist and how feminism itself is a dying movement. It seems that there are a number of journalists out there who believe that feminism was left behind in the 1970s, and since Taylor Swift…

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