The chair stood in the center of the basketball court, its worn paint revealing a rusting, metallic frame. I gazed at the circle that had formed around the chair -- 100 kids and teenagers, dressed in ragged t-shirts and shorts, dirt caking their feet and the kiss of sunshine painting...

Seventeen Magazine is the bastion of stereotypical teenage girl-dom. Need advice on hair, boys, clothes? Just flip open a page and, like the fairy godmother turning Cinderella into a princess, you too can be so magically transformed. But, just like Cinderella, the magic of the magazine only lasts for so...

Why America doesn't care about rape

The Penn State scandal is a much-publicized tragedy, but for many women in America and around the world, the threat of rape is a daily and haunting reality that often goes unnoticed by the media and the public. One in four women will be...

I remember the distinct chants from elementary school, "Blue is a boy color! Pink is a girl color!" Not able to understand why colors needed an assigned gender, I chose yellow as my favorite because it could be for both boys and girls. As a tom boy, the idea of...

Writing this first blog post, I kept second-guessing myself, thinking, "I'm just a teenage girl with some things on my mind. What do I have to say?" But that's where everyone starts; they're just a teenage/middle-aged/college-aged/any-aged person with (enter social injustice of choice) on their mind. So I took a...