My screenname was WyldChica9. I tell you this because if we’re going to talk about what teen girls were doing on AOL Instant Messenger circa 1999, we should probably get the humiliation out of the way up front. When I think about using the messaging service, I think about being 13—a deeply embarrassing age, and…
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Sadly, you’ll never be Beyoncé. But do you know what you can be? A badass woman in tech who can code better than the boys. That’s the message of STEM From Dance, a nonprofit using the power of dance to get girls—particularly teen girls of color from disadvantaged communities—into coding. It was founded in 2011…
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PHOTO: Steven Gottlieb/Getty Images There’s some major news from the Boys Scouts of America today: The organization will start accepting girls as soon as 2018. Following “years of receiving requests from families and girls,” according to an official statement from the BSA, the board voted unanimously on Wednesday to make the change. Come next year,…
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PHOTO: Courtesy Project Everyone There’s a lot to be mad about in the world today. (Think: Trump, Congress, Harvey Weinstein, the wage gap… you get the idea.) Which might be why this new video is really resonating with us. Beyoncé lent her song “Freedom” to the #FreedomForGirls campaign just in time for the International Day…
Read moreEducation is sexist. In the U.S., girls are socialized out of STEM programs and targeted with unfair dress codes. In other parts of the world, they’re forced out of school and into child marriage, or they have to spend their days carrying water instead of studying. Around the world, 50 million girls of secondary school…
Read moreNot interested in $125,000 from Uber? No problem. When Uber approached tech nonprofit Black Girls Code last week offering a $125,000 grant, founder Kimberly Bryant made headlines by turning it down. Though Uber has been trying to mend its ways after a disastrous few months (see: donating $1.2 million to Girls Who Code; hiring Bozoma…
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