Girl Positive Paperback by Tatiana Fraser and Caia Hagel

Product Details

• Publisher: Vintage Canada (2018-01-09)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 352 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780345808400
• Item Weight: 322.06 grams
• Dimensions: 8.0 x 5.2 x 0.92 cm

Showcasing the diverse voices of girls across North America, Tatiana Fraser and Caia Hagel draw on the wisdom of young women making positive change in their own lives and communities, to offer tools for families, friends and educators to assist the empowerment of young women.

     With its engaging and cutting-edge view of the cultural, social, and political issues faced by girls, Girl Positive examines the transforming identities of girls in the world today. Examining topics from social media, sexual violence, hypersexuality and cyberspace identities to girls as world leaders of positive change, Girl Positive offers stories of struggle, victory, and inspiration.
     Travelling across Canada and the United States from Montreal to New Haven (CT), New Jersey to Toronto, Whitehorse to the Wemindji Cree Nation in northern Quebec, Fraser and Hagel spent time talking and hanging out with school-age girls, college students and young women early in their careers. Interspersed in these narratives is advice and input from adult experts in media, health, race, and gender politics, sexuality, education and leadership. Each chapter also includes a Survival Kit, which offers tips and discussion questions for girls and the adults in their lives.
     Through Fraser and Hagel's interviews readers will learn how to equip themselves to encourage girls (and boys)--as parents, friends, educators, mentors and activists. Girl Positive illuminates emerging culture and fresh politics, and shows us the future in the making.

About the Author

TATIANA FRASER is a writer, speaker, activist and social innovator. Co-founder and past Executive Director of Girls Action Foundation, Fraser is recognized as a Global Ashoka Fellow and was named one of Canada's Top 100 Powerful Women by The Women's Executive Network. Fraser has served on numerous boards and advisory committees including as a delegate to the UN Commission on the Status of Women.

CAIA HAGEL is a writer, creative director and entrepreneur. Her work on culture and innovation has appeared in publications from Art Papers to Vogue. Hagel is co-founding director of GuerrillaPop+MediaLab, a boutique media co-op that invented "moral offsetting" to create avant-garde media. She has been a speaker on art, design, pop and youth media, including at X Contemporary at Art Basel Miami and Forum D'Avignon@Paris, where her presentation on selfies contributed to a new Bill of Digital Human Rights.