GirlSpeak

This month, in honor of Black History Month, and to acknowledge President’s Day, Girl Museum resident scholar Elizabeth Dillenburg discusses children’s role in the Civil Rights Movement and girls’ letters to President John F. Kennedy.

These letters show how girls speaking for freedom, justice, and equality in the recent past in the United States of America.

May their voices continue.

Content note: use of historic racial language.

Links to check out:

Children’s Defense Fund

JFK Archives

This year Girl Museum is creating a special series of GirlSpeak, reading and examining historic girls' letters and diary entries.

To begin this series and to coincide with the presidential inauguration on January 20th in the United States of America, Elizabeth Dillenburg, Resident Scholar, highlights girls’ letters to US presidents.

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In this last episode of 2024, in honor of the re-opening of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, Ashley examines the church, the story of Mary, and her role in religion and culture.

If you are interested in finding out more about girls in Christianity, check out Girl Museum's exhibition, Girl Saints.

Notes on sources

https://www.france.fr/en/article/10-dates-history-notre-dame/#1991-a-unesco-world-heritage-site-9

https://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/angelus/2024/documents/20241208-angelus.html

https://womenshistorynetwork.org/mary-mother-of-jesus-christ/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary,_mother_of_Jesus’​​

https://www.notredamedeparis.fr/en/

​​https://www.friendsofnotredamedeparis.org/notre-dame-cathedral/

Blake Hereth, philosophy of Religion professor

https://www.blakehereth.com/

https://www.proquest.com/docview/2731683736/fulltextPDF?accountid=8330&parentSessionId=6rnL1N6dRzDBthTpsMg41QyEOFXfYgtbup8GY93rXnE%3D&pq-origsite=primo&sourcetype=Scholarly%20Journals

This month we are re-releasing a podcast in support of our upcoming exhibition on British Girls Fashion. Please join us again next month for a new episode.

In this episode, we will be looking at the new, different, and exciting range of teenage fashions in the 1950s and 1960s. This was a particularly exciting period for teenagers, as they began to break away from their parents’ generation to develop their own distinct style and interests. Vogue stated that there was a “Youthquake” in the sixties, due to the overwhelming popularity of revolutionary new styles and trends brought in by teenagers. But why did the concept of the teenager develop? What changes were happening in society that brought about these changes in fashion? What were the most iconic clothes and why were they so popular? 

We are celebrating International Day of the Girl Child (IDG) on October 11. This year's theme is ‘Girls' Vision of the Future’. Head Girl Ashley E. Remer interviews researcher Özlem Lakatos about her work on girls' and children's rights and the importance of the IDG.

We are wrapping up the Paris Olympics season with Junior Girl Lindsay discusses the amazing achievements of girls at the Paralympics.

In honor of the Paris Olympics, Junior Girl Lindsay discusses the history and amazing achievements of girls in the Olympic Games.

In this month's podcast, Scarlett discusses the changing fashion for girls and women brought about by World War II.

This episode is part of a series of podcasts in support of our upcoming exhibition What We Wear: British Girls' Fashion.

Look forward to other fashion pods coming up later in the year.

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This month, Nat Urban hosts our June podcast to celebrate Pride and Trans Girls.

Check out Nat's exhibition at Girl Museum, Queerness and Girlhood: The Interviews.

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To commemorate International Museum Day 2024, Girl Museum founder and Head Girl Ashley E. Remer and Education Advisor Hillary Hanel, have a conversation about this year's theme ‘Museums for Education and Research’.