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Medusa Speaks at Girl God Books
No, not this Medusa, THE Medusa. :D A course for our soulcraft, $49, 4 videos, watch as many times as you like to take the lessons fully in.
Today Medusa—like strong women everywhere—would be called nasty, persistent, bossy, bitchy or worse. This is the legacy of misinterpreting her power, and it has led us to misunderstanding our own.
That is why we have called in the torchbearers—the most learned Medusa scholars on the planet—to re-story this myth with us, restoring her—and us—to our original majesty.
During a series of conversations, Girl God Books founder Trista Hendren will dive deep into the creation of this myth and its tragic distortions with Glenys Livingstone, Laura Shannon, Miriam Robbins Dexter and Joan Marler.
This four-part series will bring Medusa's voice into your living room. Watch the recordings at your leisure.
OnBoys Learning Violence: Gail Dines and Ashley Judd at Ms.
In between three-point baskets, her preteen niece kept dropping unseemly references. The adults caught on that she was reaching out for help. Turning down the volume, they gave her supportive attention. She was then able to divulge that the boys in her junior high school were pressuring her and her friends to do violent and disturbing sex acts they learned while watching porn.
It is not a generic or inclusive “people” who are violated in porn. It’s overwhelmingly girls and women. It was not sex that Ashley’s niece feared. It was violence.
Porn, like the manosphere, fuses the two—and women and girls suffer.
Gail Dines, Ashley Judd
Tiffany Aching - Terry Pratchett - The Wee Free Men Series
Esmee's favorite YA fantasy series. We meet Tiffany when she's 9 years old and grow up with her into both a level-headed community leader and the Discworld's most powerful witch. Healing for grown women, inspiring for young ones. All of Granny Weatherwax's best lines.
In Our Own Hands
A deliberately intergenerational herbal and mycelium conference for women and girls, based in Wisconsin USA, and offering online courses.
Teen Spiral offers unique workshops for teen girls while their parent/guardian attends workshops during the Midwest Women’s Herbal Conference. Teens are also welcome to attend any main conference workshops they find interesting.
Our Bodies Ourselves
This year we lost and elder and wisdom, Norma Meras Swenson, who founded this organizaiton in the name of the earliest women's guide to our overall and also sexual health. Now an educational and advocacy organization, a great source of necessary self-knowledge for women and girls.
Many complex and intertwined factors – from genetics to self-care to access to medical care to laws restricting body autonomy – affect people’s health, sexuality, and well-being. Our Bodies Ourselves’s understanding of and perspective on health and sexuality, and the choices people do and don’t have, is deeply rooted in feminism, intersectionality, and reproductive and social justice.
The Best Friend's Handbook
The Best Friend’s Handbook provides advice for girls aged 13-16 to support each other with problems such as abusive relationships, family problems and body issues.
Ali and Jo were concerned about girls and young women, due to reports about high levels of violence, pressure and unhappiness they were hearing and reading about. Jo suggested creating a booklet to activate the power of girl’s friendship so that they could help each other. She asked Ali to use her expertise to write accessible text on how girls can help each other with these problems.
Rites for Girls
We've mentioned Rites for Girls before. That's because we are fans.
Our mission is to change the world – one girl at a time.
Rites for Girls mentors girls right through their adolescence and we train women to facilitate girls’ groups. In Girls Journeying Together groups preteen girls prepare for puberty and learn how to take charge of their emotional, social, and mental well-being.
Kim McCabe
A sample of self-defense advice and demonstration
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