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Tag: Girl Scouts
My #StandBesideHer Story
A call to action to end comparison and competition.
A Girl Scout Group Returned a $100,000 Gift for a Great Reason
The Girl Scouts may be more often associated with Tagalongs than transgender activism, but that could soon change. The Girl Scouts of Western Washington recently received a check for $100,000—nearly a […]
Radical Monarchs: A Social-Justice Twist on the Girl Scouts
The following is a reprint from the Spring 2015 issue of Ms. Click here to get your copy! They are not your mother’s Brownies. Oakland’s Radical Brownies —now known as […]
Anti-Choice Groups Target Dangerous Culprits— Girl Scouts!
According to some anti-choice groups, the Girl Scouts of the USA are sort of junior league feminazis, as imagined in a Rush Limbaugh fever dream.
What Boy Scouts Can Learn from Girl Scouts
Building campfires, earning merit badges, selling cookies and dodging political controversies–Boy and Girl Scouts need to be prepared. Though the Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts came from similar origins, they’ve […]
Why the Reactionary Right Fears the Girl Scouts
Girl Scouts remains a powerful organization devoted to highlighting and celebrating what girls can do in their communities and the world. Yet over the course of its 100 years, Girl Scouts have been charged with many of the crimes that feminists and activists have faced.
And the Pawnee Goddess Spirit Award Goes to … the Trans-Friendly Girl Scouts of Colorado!
For their recent stance against gender injustice, I hereby nominate the Girl Scouts of Colorado for a Pawnee Goddess Spirit Award. What’s that, you ask? On October 13, Amy Poehler’s Parks […]
Buy the Cookies!
I was an active Girl Scout through third grade, and I hated almost every minute of it. I hated being told what to do, so I hated the uniforms and […]