Nerissa Alcindor has always had big expectations for herself, even in the most dire of circumstances. Ever since she was a baby, Alcindor was moved in and out of foster care, and later, bounced from friends’ homes, hotels and shelters to keep a roof over her head. At 17, she […]
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Crowned in Curls: Teen publishes book celebrating Black hair
Aisha Boubacar, now 15, wrote and illustrated a children’s book during the pandemic lockdown for young Black readers to appreciate their natural hair. (Submitted by Kate Lavut) Aisha Boubacar’s quarantine hairstyle experiment quickly turned into a bona fide writing project. While many were trying to cope with being separated from […]
Parents, Here Are Teen Girls’ Rules for Instagram
Instagram can be toxic to teen girls. Plenty of people outside of Facebook Inc. have said it. My colleagues recently reported that, based on internal research, the company itself has known this about its photo-sharing app for some time. Facebook said publicly that while teen girls struggled with well-being, those […]
Teen Girls Regularly Receive Unwanted Pics of Male Genitalia
Source: Karolina Grabowska/Pexels “Dick pic” is a colloquial expression that describes adult males sending images of their genitals by way of texts, social media DMs, or relationship applications. Although the expression has been generating the rounds for a although, its use increased with widespread media coverage of the downfall of […]
How Instagram is Hurting Teen Girls
For the past 3 a long time, Facebook has been conducting reports into how its application Instagram affects its thousands and thousands of youthful people. Frequently, the company’s researchers found that Instagram is damaging for a sizable percentage of them, most notably teenage women. But in public, Fb has constantly […]