In advance of the G20 Leaders meeting in Australia, 23 delegates of G(irls)20 met at the Sydney Opera House to offer their advice to the rulers on behalf of the 3.5 billion girls in women in the world.
Alexis Smith plans on going to college, traveling and having a child. But her high school classmates wouldn't know this. They asked her all sorts of things about having spastic quadriplegia but never what she wanted out of life.
After “traces of male entitlement” were found in a male student's newspaper column, some students at a New York City school congregated around a Facebook page this summer to discuss culture changes at their female-dominated high school.
Narina Jones credits her street savviness to helping her become the first in her family to go to college. “I managed to survive the crime and gangs by limiting my trust for all people,” she writes.
As a black girl I'm way more interested in how mothers, grandmothers and sisters think we should respond to the protests, anger and distrust in Ferguson, Mo., after the killing of Michael Brown.
Dara Swan talks with Zerlina Maxwell about the challenges of being a role model to siblings in the final installment of their “A Seat at the Table” conversation. “It's not always easy to throw out your opinion, especially when others aren't necessarily gonna support me,” says Swan.
Her home is considered the rape capital of the world by Interpol, so writer Annabel Fenton calls on her fellow South Africans to “reflect on their perceptions of themselves and their relationship to others.”
