From Beyonce to Rihanna to Taylor Swift to Adele, the pop music landscape is not exactly hurting for women right now. But we could always use a few more ladies killin’ it in the music scene, right?! Some of the SPARKteam came together to talk about their fave female musicians, songwriters, singers, and female-fronted bands,…
by Ty Slobe Here at SPARK we love hearing stories about girl activists who use the media to share their stories and fight for equality, especially girls with diverse stories to tell. My personal favorite girl media activist is transgender tween superstar Jazz, who at just 12 years old has already made two appearances on…
by Ty Slobe The thing that I am most thankful for this year is the opportunity that I’ve had to work with the amazing SPARKteam these past few months. I made this SPARKturkey to express my gratitude. The finger-feathers outline the reasons why I am so lucky to work with you all! Creativity: I love…
by Ty Slobe I watch a lot of TLC (which in itself is an issue that needs to be addressed), and for the past few weeks this ‘Dear Daughter” Romney advertisement has been aired during pretty much every commercial break clearly targeting women like me. When I first heard the soppy music and “Dear Daughter”…
by Ty Slobe It seems that even the animated women of Disney are subject to the negative body images that we are all subject to by the photoshopped images of the media. Many of them are going to drastic lengths to lose weight and fit in with the unrealistic models of Teen Vogue, with some…
by Ty Slobe These past few weeks have marked the beginning of my last year of college, and with the commencement of the semester so began my first year as a 21-year-old student who can finally go out to the bars with the cool older kids. As my friends and I were taking advantage of…
Is the word “bitch” acceptable? Kanye West posted a flurry of tweets on September 2nd examining his use of the word. He just wanted to think out loud with us today. So Kanye, here’s what we, the girls of SPARK, think about the word “bitch.” YingYing: As with any other word, “bitch” can only have…
by Ty Slobe Last July when I got to Chile, the girls in my exchange program started complaining right away about street harassment. Our program director told us that we should get used to it, that it is “part of the culture,” that we should be flattered. At that point I had already taken enough…