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Top 10 Media Moments for Young Feminists at LREI in 2010 « Feminist Teacher

Top 10 Media Moments for Young Feminists at LREI in 2010 « Feminist Teacher

Top 10 Media Moments for Young Feminists at LREI in 2010

In just one trimester, the students in my feminism course launched their voices into their communities and the feminist blogosphere. Here, they hold copies of "Click: When We Knew We Were Feminists." (photo Ileana Jiménez)

This past fall, the students in my Fierce and Fabulous: Feminist Women Writers, Artists, and Activists course took the work we do in this class to a whole new level. They not only launched their feminist class blog F to the Third Power but also launched their voices as young high school feminists into their communities and the media.

I am particularly proud of the myriad ways in which these students have leveraged their feminist blogging and their work as activists to make an impact on the issues they care about such as street harassment, sexual