Teenagers and youth phenomena in the news today
Seventeen year old Jinan Younis recently wrote an eloquent and powerful piece for The Guardian about her experience starting a feminist society at her all-girls school in the UK after being harassed by grown men on a school trip.
In the White House today, the Obamas aren’t just celebrating America, but also Malia’s 15th birthday!
Transgender people and the discrimination they face have been gaining more visibility on a national level in recent years, in particular, transgender youth.
Occupy Istanbul protesters camped out in a park in Gezi before it was recently evacuated by police.
Boyan Slat, born in Delft (South Holland) in ’94, has invented a massive garbage sifting machine to be put in the middle of the ocean.
Since 1996, Radio Diaries has been giving young people tape recorders and asking them to tell their stories, which are then broadcast nationally on All Things Considered.
“Graduated 2009.” Powerful reading of a powerful poem.
httpv://youtu.be/T-lG1Wb2AfM
Eighth grader Jada Williams, a student at School #3 in Rochester NY, wrote a compelling essay connecting the Rochester School System to Frederick Douglas’s The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, or slavery.
Hosted by 18 year old Snookie Lanore (Lawerence Taylor) Kiki balls are thriving in Brooklyn.
Eight Palestinian college students have written a manifesto that begins “Fuck Hamas… Fuck Israel.