Just between you and me, I have a thing for Katy Perry…I just can’t seem to get her off my playlist. Her hooks are just SO catchy. Katy Perry makes me think hard about what girl power really means. Do her songs really translate into power for girls? When I see Katy’s videos and listen [...]

When I set out to uncover some quotes about women from men, I was disappointed to find that the most famous ones by the most famous people in history were often totally sexist. But, lucky for us the world is changing. I’ve uncovered some historical quotes by men about women, and got some more recent [...]

I know I know, Valentine’s Day is over right? The chocolates are eaten, the flowers are wilting.  But we LOVE all this thinking we’ve been doing about reclaiming February 14, and want to share just one more little Valentine’s Day post with you. It all started with one voice – that of Eve Ensler.  Using [...]

The image we have of the single girl on Valentine’s Day is a mopey pyjama-clad chick sitting on her couch with a half empty box of chocolates, despairing that she’ll never find love as she watches the end of [insert favourite Rom Com here]. Valentine’s comes part and parcel with a whole bunch of gender [...]

Is romance in the air where you are? Valentine’s Day is looming and stores are stuffed with everything heart shaped. Is it overkill or never enough? We want to know what YOU think about about it! This month, Because I am a Girl is celebrating Valentine’s Day, but we’re thinking about causes we love and how [...]

All month we’ve been looking at Girls At Risk, tackling themes like Girls and Climate Change Girls facing abuse in schools Citizenship and documentation for every girl This situation about girls can be hard to judge. Is it a hopeless case because girls face so many challenges all over the world? With so much change [...]

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Our theme over at Because I am a Girl this January is Girls At Risk. This topic really sums up the main issue that made us decide to start a girls movement: we are concerned that girls all over the world are the most at risk. What we mean is that girls are at greater [...]

The idea that kids should be seen and not heard is SO OVER. In fact, youth are becoming news makers on tv, radio and in print. Giving youth the tools to be journalists makes sure that the news is heard from our perspective even though it is usually reserved for adults.  We ask different questions, [...]

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