The Power of Teen Girls Malala Yousafzai survived a 2012 school bus attack and went on to become the youngest person to receive a Nobel Peace Prize. Greta Thunberg skipped school to increase awareness about global warming. She was honored as Time Magazine’s 2019 Person of the Year. Emma Gonzalez survived the shooting in Parkland, …
Online Courses for Teen Girls We’ve designed our online courses to help teen girls explore their creativity and engage in activities that are fun, challenging, and will teach them lifelong skills. Courses run every day from July 20-24,10:00 a.m. to 3:15 p.m. View the complete schedule here. Suggested Courses Based on Your Daughter’s Interests Is your daughter …
How Fathers Can Help Their Daughters Succeed In a 2016 article for Glamour, President Obama wrote about his commitment to being the kind of father who set the bar high for the other men his daughters would encounter as they became adults. The ways fathers can help their daughters succeed, he wrote, include: Taking on …
May is Mental Health Awareness Month To increase awareness of the fact that, according to NAMI, one in five teens experiences some form of mental illness, I’ve put together a list of female-directed, co-directed, written or co-written films that deal with mental illness, whether as the central theme or in relation to the plot. Each …
We started planning for Women’s History Month 2020 in September 2019: researching our presentation, “Women Filmmakers of the Pacific Northwest,” grant-writing, marketing, contacting schools, libraries and public places, and rehearsing. By February we had our schedule set up to show WFPNW at nine locations in and around Lane County. We made it to five. In …
It’s an honor to be the blog feature at Miss Independent! Read about the origins of Girls’ Voices Matter, why the program is just for girls, and how we can address the lack of women all aspects of film, from directing to acting to cinematography. Much more at Miss Independent While you’re there, read about …
During the Coronavirus Outbreak, Girls’ Voices Matter has compiled a list of creative activities designed with teen girls in mind. We are happy to announce our first online class, Digital Photography 101! This is a FREE beginning-intermediate, 5-lesson video class. Because of the coronavirus outbreak, we’re bringing quality online content to our community. Online …
My story of losing confidence When I was ten years old, I wanted to be a musician, a dancer, a mom, a poet, and an explorer. Only three years later, the bright future I’d imagined for myself seemed unattainable. By the age of thirteen, I’d become acutely aware of the limitations our culture places on …
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We had fun and learned some of the basics of computer commands during Scratch Programming for Girls on February 20, 2020 at Ophelia’s Place. Students created their own “chase” games using the free program Scratch. Choosing from motion, looks, sound, backdrops and more, students used their imaginations and creativity to animate characters that ranged from …
