GirlSpeak

For our final podcast of the year, we are flipping the script with our collaborative project with James Madison University’s Feminist Rhetorics course. The next three podcasts will be guest-hosted by team of students from that class who are exploring Girl Museum, the Girls. Period. exhibition and the work of WORI, the Women's Rights Initiative in Uganda.

In this first episode, Olivia Chapin, Ally de Cardona, LeeAnne English-Stewart and Freddie Tavakoli- interview our Head Girl, Ashley E. Remer to find out more about Girl Museum, our work, and our rhetorics.

Thanks for listening.

Girls. Period. exhibition

Our November episode of GirlSpeak honors US National Native American Heritage Month through exploring girls' letters who attended Carlisle Federal Indian Boarding School. Thousands of children were forced to attend these schools across North America for over 100 years. It is a heart-breaking and devastating history that is still very much alive today in the memories of many adults.

Thank you to the Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition for making these records available.

To learn more, here are the full digitized collection of records from the Carlisle Indian School Digital Resource Center.

Abbie Somers: https://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/node/7414

Ada Crouse: https://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/node/4805

Agnes Waupano: https://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/node/5786

Alice Logan: https://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/node/5542

Alice Schuyler: https://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/node/6793

Amy Atsye: https://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/node/6577 

In this month's episode, Head Girl Ashley E. Remer discusses the International Day of the Girl Child and the 2025 theme- ‘The girl I am, the change I lead: Girls on the frontlines of crisis’. She talks about the Girl Goals report and shines a spotlight on Afghanistan with refugee Tahera's inspirational words.

Here are some links for more information. 

https://www.girlmuseum.org/my-beautiful-dream-being-a-girl-should-not-be-a-crime/

https://www.un.org/en/observances/girl-child-day

https://www.unicef.org/take-action/campaigns/adolescent-girls-rights

https://www.unwomen.org/en/articles/explainer/inside-the-crisis-you-dont-see-how-war-impacts-womens-mental-health

https://plan-international.org/un/our-priorities/girls-in-crises/

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In this month's episode of GirlSpeak, Education Advisor Hillary Rose discusses the letters between Daisy Bell and her father Alexander Graham Bell, inventor and scientist. This correspondence was between 1895 and 1902, when Daisy was 15 to 22 years old.

The original letters are all held in the Library of Congress. Here is the link to the family's papers for you to explore all the letters.

This month we continue our GirlSpeak series on girls' letters and diaries with Resident Scholar Elizabeth Dillenburg discussing the journal of Black poet, educator, and abolitionist Charlotte Forten Grimké.

More information on Grimké here and here.

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In a continuation of our series of girls' letters and diaries, this month Girl Museum's Education Advisor Hillary Rose discusses girls' interests in STEM, their letters to astronauts, and the big questions of the universe.

Link to the Girl Museum DBQ

Link to article about study of children drawing scientists.

Check our STEM and STEAM Girls exhibitions at Girl Museum.

This month, Resident Scholar Elizabeth Dillenberg shares the story of Wang Zhenyi, a Qing dynasty mathematician and astronomer, who also wrote poetry. Her body of knowledge was quite an achievement for someone who died at 29.

For more on Wand Zhenyi, check out our blog.

In this month's episode of GirlSpeak, education volunteer Ada Kalu discusses beauty and fashion trends from the late 19th century Spring wardrobe from a Girls' Own Paper to 2020's Tweencore.

You can check out Girl Museum's exhibition What We Wear: British Girls' Fashion and search for other girls' fashion podcasts in our feed.

In our April installment of the girls' diaries and letters series, our Education Advisor Hillary Hanel, discusses college life via girls diaries from the early 1920s and 1940s.

Mildred Valeda Daum, 1920-4

Margetta Hirsch Doyle Diary, 1943

To honor Women's History Month, Girl Museum's Resident Scholar Elizabeth Dillenberg discusses girls' participation in the Suffragist movement. Join us at Girl Museum to celebrate Women's History Month with our latest art exhibition.

• Elsie Duvall Diaries and Writings: https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/page-11-prison-diaries-1913/QgFClMrVO54fMQ?childAssetId=XAHSL7vZ4x4bYA
• Young Suffrage: https://www.girlmuseum.org/project/young-suffrage/
• Dora Thewlis Picture and Information: https://www.girlmuseum.org/dora-thewlis-teenage-suffragette/