Photo by Laurel Golio for We Are the Youth The United States has recently seen too many suicides by gay teens and young adults, which has made people more conscious of the bullying these youth face.  Some good projects have come out of these tragedies,...
This past weekend (Oct 22-24), I attended the ‘Reimagining Girlhood: Communities, Identities, Self-Portrayals’ Conference at SUNY at Cortland.  Though I’ve been with Girl Museum for several months,...
UPI Photo/Pat Benic http://www.upi.com/enl-win/8d6438ba1369f823a62694dee5795fb9/ After getting my learner’s driving permit at 16, the next age-related milestone I was looking forward to was being able to vote. Two years later I was finally able to cast a ballot,...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1296894/Eminem-surprises-Rihanna-fans-LA-concert.html Currently the number one song in the United States is Love the Way You Lie, a collaboration between Eminem and Rihanna. The song deals with domestic violence from both a...
One of the women featured in our Heroines Quilt exhibition is Anne Frank, a Jewish teenager who hid from the Nazis in Amsterdam during the Holocaust. Even though she eventually died at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, she has become known throughout the world...
