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politics

Girls Watch Movies: Norma Rae

By Jess Rigel on Wed, 04/13/2011 - 20:01

Jess highlights a decades-old movie that feels newly relevant.

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The Politics of Lady Gaga: Sexuality, Power, and Violence

By Lauren Herold on Wed, 03/31/2010 - 22:53

Lauren Herold examines Lady Gaga's statements - or lack thereof - about violence.

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The Eleven Year Itch

By Fiona Lowenstein on Wed, 10/14/2009 - 11:26

 Two weeks ago, I made one of the biggest changes of my life. I left my school of eleven years and transferred to a different one after school had already started.

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Leading Like A Girl

By Shelby Knox on Mon, 10/12/2009 - 10:28

A few weekends ago, an international group of (mostly) women gathered at the Omega Institute in upstate New York for the annual Women and Power conference to discuss and practice the year’s theme of “Connecting Across the Generations.”

And as luck would have it, GLI was well represented by an intergenerational delegation consisting of Rachel Simmons, Lilly, a seventeen year-old high school senior who attended camp the summer before her freshman year, and me.

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