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July 26, 2021 | Sophie Hayssen | Religion, Violence against women
The #MeToo Movement’s Blind Spot: Scientology

The movement had, and still has, a gaping blindspot: the influence of Scientology.

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July 21, 2021 | Lakshmi Gandhi | Girls
This Book Tells the Story of the Surfer Girls of Bangladesh

Samira Surfs draws on real-life stories to create the story of Samira, a 12-year-old girl who embraces surfing as a way to find herself and process her trauma.

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July 16, 2021 | Lakshmi Gandhi | Media
‘Never Have I Ever’ Star Maitreyi Ramakrishnan on Friendship, Fame and the Power of Social Media

The FBomb recently had the chance to chat with Ramakrishnan about Never Have I Ever’s second season (which is currently streaming on Netflix) and more.

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July 15, 2021 | Marcela Rodrigues-Sherley | Education, Girls, Race/Ethnicity
T-R-A-I-L-B-L-A-Z-E-R: The History Behind Zaila Avant-garde’s Spelling Bee Win

14-year-old Zaila Avant-garde became the first Black American to win the Scripps National Spelling Bee in the competition’s 96-year history.

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July 13, 2021 | Kadin Burnett | Sports
The Treatment of Black Female Olympic Athletes

All of these cases elicit a similar feeling of Black women being treated cruelly and unfairly based on arbitrary rules.

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July 07, 2021 | McKenna Oberheim | Girls
Let’s Validate Girls’ Interests

It wasn’t until recently that I realized I have never seen the interests of young boys, such as video games or sports, treated in the same way that girls’ interests in makeup, music, or even women’s sports often are.

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July 06, 2021 | Regiane Folter | Media
Teens Should Be Careful about TikTok Challenges

Some of the challenges can actually hurt their participants because they lead people to do risky things like taking medicine, playing with electricity, or gluing body parts together using super glues.

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July 02, 2021 | Celeste Huang-Menders | Girls
How COVID-19 Affected Teens’ Mental Health

Pandemic lockdowns led to worsening levels of depression, anxiety, and post-traumatic stress disorder among adolescents.

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July 01, 2021 | Lakshmi Gandhi | Girls
This Author Channeled Her Grief Into a Children’s Book About Managing Sadness

The title character in Jenny Mei Is Sad is a little girl who is often sad but still makes jokes and smiles. Her best friend always lets her know that she is there to listen and play games, even when Jenny Mei isn’t at her best.

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June 30, 2021 | Riel Lewis | Feminism
My First Time Being Catcalled

The first time I was catcalled was not in circumstances I had been taught to fear.

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June 21, 2021 | Nicole Fallert | Feminism
The Power of a Ponytail

For a long time, it didn’t occur to Sharma that she could make a change to the grooming standards because the Army’s rules about the way soldiers can and can’t wear their hair historically have been determined by “white men in the military [who] hate change,” Sharma said.

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June 18, 2021 | Kadin Burnett | Race/Ethnicity
Is Making Juneteenth A Federal Holiday Meaningful?

President Joe Biden signed into law yesterday a bill that made Juneteenth — the anniversary of the day the last enslaved Americans learned of their freedom — a federal holiday.

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June 18, 2021 | Elianor M.A. | LGBTQIA
Why Watching ‘Pose’ Is a Great Way to Celebrate Pride Month

One worthy way to celebrate this Pride month is to watch the industry-shattering, Golden Globe-nominated drama Pose.

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June 14, 2021 | Lakshmi Gandhi | Sports
A Teen Girl In Rural India Defies Tradition in Netflix’s ‘Skater Girl’

“Skateboarding is usually considered to be a boy’s sport, but we were meeting so many girls and boys who were taking to skateboarding and really thriving at it."

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June 10, 2021 | Lakshmi Gandhi |
This Debut Author Explores Teen Girl Gamers’ Experiences in ‘Don’t Hate the Player’

Nedd’s debut novel, Don’t Hate the Player, which will be released on June 15 by Bloomsbury Kids, draws a lot of inspiration from Nedd’s years as a young gamer and general gaming enthusiast.

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June 08, 2021 | Sophie Hayssen | Education
The Inequity of College Admissions

Netflix’s new documentary, Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal, offers a glimpse into how fraught the application process is.

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June 07, 2021 | Celeste Huang-Menders | Race/Ethnicity
More States Are Formally Recognizing Racism in Health Care

The existence of racial disparities in health care treatment has been widely recognized for decades. The COVID-19 pandemic, however, has reinforced how deadly this unequal medical treatment can be.

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June 03, 2021 | Samantha Cohen | Body image and body standards
My Friend Ed

Ed and I became so close that sometimes I had a hard time distinguishing Ed from Sam. Eventually, he banished Samantha. He changed my life. He changed our life.

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June 02, 2021 | Aishah Ashraf | Media
My Dream of Becoming Hollywood's First Hijabi Talk-Show Host

With aspirations as grand as mine, while identifying as a member of a deprecated community, I’m cognizant of the fact that I have to work twice as hard. But I’m willing to do so.

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June 01, 2021 | Lakshmi Gandhi | Feminism
This Is the First Book About Abortion Care for Children

When Carly Manes first began working in reproductive health and started having conversations with clients about their needs, she immediately noticed something: many of them wished there were more resources for parents who wanted to explain what abortions were to their children.

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May 27, 2021 | Nicole Fallert | Arts and culture
This Author Explored the Concept of “Cultish”

Cultish provides readers with an explanation of not only how cults gain influence and but how seemingly any innocent person could fall prey to their power: the potency of words.

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May 25, 2021 | Kadin Burnett | Media, Race/Ethnicity
How ‘The Underground Railroad’ Reimagines the Trauma of Slavery

'The Underground Railroad' meticulously displays one of history’s most shameful and violent eras without lingering in sadism.

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May 24, 2021 | Rosie Foulds | Feminism
The United Nations Has a Women’s Leadership Problem

According to the UN Secretariat Gender Parity Dashboard, while women compose nearly 57% of entry-level P-2 positions, they comprise only 38% of D-2 positions, the highest level of employment in the U.N.

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May 19, 2021 | Tessa Flores | Media
Is Reality Television Finally Becoming More Accountable?

We have entered into an arena where now more than ever before, our viewership is our currency and we must continue to shape the content that in turn shapes us.

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May 18, 2021 | Blake Ciresa | Media
Reflecting on the Misogyny in ‘Tiger King’

I have seen article after article in feminist magazines about how the ’90s era of female vilification is over, yet we still see women like Carole Baskin bashed repeatedly in the media to this day.


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