Read
“A more complete women’s history” (Dillard, 2020)
“A national agenda for Black girls” (Girls for Gender Equity, 2020)
“The Black girl pushout” (Anderson, 2016)
Watch/Listen
Podcast: “Why are 63 million girls missing out on education?” (Lamble & Stewart, 2016)
Video: “I use my poetry to confront the violence against women” (Acevedo, 2016)
Video: “Kimberlé Crenshaw discusses 'intersectional feminism'“ (2015)
ACT
Donate to Girls for Gender Equity or use the information on their website to take action for young women’s empowerment.
Donate to or volunteer for the Radical Monarchs, an organization founded to empower young girls of color with sisterhood and lessons on social justice.
Donate to or volunteer for Black Girls Code.
Donate to or volunteer for the African American Policy Forum, the think tank that created #SayHerName and #BlackGirlsMatter.
Donate to or join The Harambee Collective, a community curated for womxn of color to support each other.
Donate to or volunteer for Girls Leadership, Justice for Black Girls. and/or Young Women Empowered.
Donate to one of the many organizations connected to Educating Girls Matters.
Teach
“The biases women must overcome” (Learning for Justice)
“Black women’s activism and the long history behind #metoo” (Facing History and Ourselves, 2020)
Learn
Read “Affirmation, analysis, and agency: Book clubs as spaces for critical conversations with young adolescent women of color” (Polleck & Epstein, 2015).
Visit Girls Leadership for trauma-informed resources for educators to support young women’s social-emotional needs. Girls Leadership also provides workshops for young women and their families.