Jenny
All Girl Army/ The Young Feminists Project is looking for a few good women to create, nurture and enjoy a women’s community targeted to young women internationally, who identify as feminist, between the ages of 10 and 23.
We expect to debut the site in May of this year, and it will include:
- 29 featured blogs by young, feminist women and one overarching blog, collectively edited and compiled.
- An active, moderated discussion board primarily serving, and intended to benefit, young women with a limited area for those of all genders, as well as a limited area for women over 23.
- Cooperative ownership and management of the site.
- Collective, dynamic projects driven by young women.
- A myriad of current resources for young feminists: books, magazines, film, music, art, events and symposiums, other websites, scholarship funds and organizations.
What’s our goal?
- To increase visibility and self-representation of young women: of your lives, your ideas, your goals, your achievements and your struggles: to counteract lookism and the media’s representation of young women with your real voices, unscripted words and real lives.
- To help foster a supportive, creative and proactive women’s community, and nurture relationships and discussion among women of all ages; to help young women develop their feminism and their autonomy via women’s community, and discover that other women are allies, not competition.
- To create and sustain a collective board of feminist women of all ages to manage the site, with a majority vote in decisions given to women under 23; to provide experience for young women in creating, organizing and managing community, advocacy and support for women.
- To provide mentorship for young women to learn skills you’re interested in.
- To provide a visible exploration and examination of feminism, of growing up female, by and for young women.
- To show the world the hearts and minds of a whole lot of seriously awesome young women, and to give others, young and old, the chance to be as inspired by all of you as we are.
Our board and founders are an evolving and eclectic group of women of all ages, from all walks of life. We are everything from a mother of ten to a sexuality educator; from an IT professional to an advocate for battered women; from a women’s studies student to a sculptural jeweler, all of us feminist, all of us dedicated to women.
One woman said that what we’re trying to do is “like the radical Girl Scouts!” That sounds pretty good to us. Namely, we want to pass the torch in the best ways we know how, because we feel that all of you are going to redefine feminism as we know it, and have the capacity to make an incredible mark on the world. We feel the internet is an optimal place to do so because it gives us the ability to work internationally and dynamically.
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Jennifer K. Lobasz
Department of Political Science
University of Minnesota
http://journey-to-ithaca.com
