Although experiences of trauma and institutional sexism remain, the survivors’ first-person public narratives, the mass street demonstrations including women across class and racial lines and the leveraging of art, underwear and hashtags to express solidarity bespeak the resourcefulness of a rising movement.
Author: Lisa Barca
Lisa Barca is an honors faculty fellow at Barrett, The Honors College at Arizona State University. Her writing has appeared in numerous anthologies as well as in peer-reviewed journals. She has recently been selected as a regular invited lecturer for Arizona Humanities, presenting her research on gender and the media around the state.
Melanie Martinez is Telling Teen Girls a New Story
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