Maya Brown is a sophomore at Waterville Senior High School in Waterville Maine. She enjoys music, technology, photography, and anything related to theater. She has been a part of the Girls Advisory Board at Hardy Girls Healthy Women for three years, and a part of Hardy Girls since the beginning (10 years ago). She believes…
Maya Brown is a sophomore at Waterville Senior High School in Waterville Maine. She enjoys music, technology, photography, and anything related to theater. She has been a part of the Girls Advisory Board at Hardy Girls Healthy Women for three years, and a part of Hardy Girls since the beginning (10 years ago). She believes…
By Culley Schultz Culley Schultz is a senior at Glen Ridge High School, outside of New York City. She is the vice-president of the GRHS Girls Learn International (GLI) Chapter as well as the Secretary of the GLI Junior Board. Last year, Culley created a short documentary and commentary on the portrayal of women and…
By Diana Martinez Diana Martinez is proud to say that she is a senior from Mount Holyoke College and a Woman’s History major, Spanish minor. Her journey as an activist began when she joined the feminist a capella group on campus called The Nice Shoes, which sings empowering songs to promote human rights. With the…
SPARK Virtual Summit – Q&A Q1: Brooklyn, NY: What do you have to say about sports, for example, competitive cheerleading, which are broadly feminized and ALWAYS over-sexualized by media? I would agree — some sports are highly sexualized on the women’s side. Beach volleyball is a perfect example. Women typically play in bikinis whereas men…
The internet has been abuzz with the highly sexualized photo spread of Glee Cast members Lea Michele and Dianna Agron, taken for the men’s magazine GQ. Dubbed “Glee Gone Wild” these photographs are targeted at GQ’s readership, made up of 72% men whose median age is 33.4. Yet the characters in the extraordinarily popular television…
How can we explore the boundaries of violence and pleasure? What does living in a “sexually liberated” society really mean? Where is your line? Nancy Schwartzman travels around the country with her film The Line in order to ask young woman and men these very questions. It’s a sex-positive, anti sexual violence movement called The Line…