Here is a great locally made Flash Mob. Imagine the work it took!
The Vancouver’s YWCA just got $260,000 from the federal government for a “girl’s leadership program” to be offered in Surrey, BC. The program is called “That’s Just Me” and aims to teach girls how to be more resilient and about healthy relationships. I suspect that this funding was designed to address a more pressing
Thirteen year old Sarah Mcleod is famous and on CNN for her amazing video on slut shaming. It is a must watch! I am amazed by how much she knows about institutional and cultural influences! It’s also a reminder about the equalizing force of the Internet. Get your messages out there now!
I want to follow Molly Katchpole’s lead. She is a 22 year old woman who brought down a big corporation simply by blogging. In just one day she was able to get 165,000 signatures on one petition through www.Change.org so that Verizon, her wireless provider reversed its decision to charge users $2.00 for each
Dr. Carl Wieman is a brilliant man and now he is using $10 million to share what he knows through the University of British Columbia (UBC) Wieman Science Education Initiative. Like many thought leading educators before him, Wieman believes that learning should not be top-down but rather a partnership between teacher and student. Routing
The harmful ripple effect of one murder is shocking and sad. This morning women across Canada were more afraid than yesterday. They are texting alerts to all their friends and mothers are picking up their girls from school – even though the murder of the 18 year old girl occurred thousands of miles away in the little town of Armstrong, BC. Routing
School principals who introduce dress codes for girls are causing long-term harm without even realizing it. A recent article in the Vancouver Sun (by Byrony Gordon, 26 Oct 11) titled “Skirts haven’t been dangerous for 6,000 years” almost gets this important point. It is true that most teen girls wake up one day and
I just read another Globe & Mail article about dealing with your “child-bully.” It makes me so mad. In all my work with bullies I have only met one true bully. This bully was a socio-path and could feel no empathy and never would. The rest of the so-called bullies I have encountered
New Girl Guide Research Institute conducted a survey of 1000 girls on the impact of reality TV. Sadly if your daughter watches these shows (like Jersey Shores or The Bachelor) she is more likely to think she needs a boyfriend to be happy, more likely to think that gossip is a normal part of
Miss Representation Trailer Here is the blurb: Miss Representation brings together some of America’s most influential women in politics, news and entertainment, including Condoleezza Rice, Nancy Pelosi, Katie Couric, Rachel Maddow, Margaret Cho, Rosario Dawson and Gloria Steinem to give audiences an inside look at the media’s message and depiction of women. The film