Powered by Girl: A Field Guide for Supporting Youth Activists

. Lyn Mikel Brown has been studying and working with girls for more than twenty-five years. A professor of education and human development at Colby College, she is the author of five previous books about gender and girlhood, and is the cofounder of three grassroots organizations

Full of stories and strategies, it’s a must-read manual for nurturing agency, sisterhood, and critical consciousness in girl activists. “When teen activist Julia Bluhm made headlines for challenging digitally altered images of young women in Seventeen magazine, the media omitted mention of her collaboration with adult women from the organization SPARK movement. But together, we are unstoppable.”—Kaitlin Tremblay, Shameless Magazine“If you’re committed to working with girls&m

"" This is a great book on how to support girls in activism" according to Alyssa. "Because the media consistently suppressed collective collaboration and instead hyped Julia's individual achievement, she and her team lost a genuine opportunity to educate youth and the adults who work with them about the most important truth about effective social-change work: you don't do it alone."This is a great book on how to support girls in activism.I appreciate that this book goes into the difference between women in leadership roles and activism (for example, helping girls re-shape existing power systems so they can thrive instead . This book has a lot of good information - and good examples supporting what they say Shannon Zolar This book has a lot of good information - and good examples supporting what they say. I'm using it to help my daughters with some ideas they have for fund-raising and the like.My 8 year old was disappointed that it was written at a level that is too high for her reading skills. It would be wonderful if it were written in a version for young girls - best time for them to start.. "This book seems written less for the girl activist, and more for the adult supporters of activist girls" according to R S Cobblestone. Powered by Girl: A Field Guide for Supporting Youth Activists, by Lyn Mikel Brown, is a well-organized book. I'm interested in developing a training program for young adults to become activists, so the subject of Brown's book was of interest. First, I appreciate and recognize the focus in this book on girls, but I note that many of the activist development issues also apply to boys. Second, my book now has numerous Post-it tags. There are many, many thoughtful tidbits throughout. I will have all my students read chapter 1, "The myth of the s

And we learn what experienced adult activists say about how to scaffold girls’ social-change work. Here we learn about the intergenerational support behind thirteen-year-old Julia Bluhm when she got Seventeen to go Photoshop free; nineteen-year-old Celeste Montaño, who pressed Google to diversify their Doodles; and sixteen-year-old Yas Necati, who campaigns for better sex education. A playbook for working with and training girls to be activists of their own social movementsDrawing from a diverse collection of interviews with women and girl activists, Powered by Girl is both a journalistic exploration of how girls have embraced activism and a guide for adults who want to support their organizing. Brown argues that adults shouldn’t encourage girls to “lean in.” Rather, girls should be supported in creating their own movements—disrupting the narrative, developing their own ideas—on their own terms.