Heroines Quilt IX

Heroines Quilt IX This quilt is in honor of girls and their heroines everywhere. Every even year, we celebrate Women’s History Month by inviting submissions of girlhood heroines for our Heroines Quilt. Each day, a new heroine is featured on our blog with an...

Girls. Period.

Talking about periods is pretty uncomfortable for most of us. We learn to hide tampons in our sleeves or in a cute makeup bag when we go to the bathroom, to talk in code about “Aunt Flo” or “that time of the month” and to try to hide any traces...

In the World: Girls’ Visions of Nature

Throughout history, nature has been a source of inspiration for artists, offering a space for reflection, comfort, and awe. In today’s landscape of rising global temperatures and an increasingly destabilized climate, considerations about our connection to and...

What She Said: Girls Transforming Texts

For a long time, young people have enjoyed putting their own twist on their favourite stories and noting them down. Girls have a special relationship to this type of writing, called ‘transformative’ writing. In their educational and leisure time, girls...

What We Wear: British Girls’ Fashion

“Fashion is very important. It is life-enhancing and, like everything that gives pleasure, it is worth doing well.” Vivienne Westwood British Fashion Designer Some of us may not pay much attention to what we wear, whilst others enjoy searching for new...

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