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—Holly Holmberg Brooks, Founder of GirlSite
28 Chew On This
by Shelina Kurwa

A car pulls into the gas station parking lot. Kids pile out and race into the store, grabbing a super size-bag of popcorn to snack on in the car. At the same time, in a nearby town, a girl sits at the kitchen table doing her homework. She munches a few strips of beef jerky while she struggles with a particularly complicated-looking math problem.
29 Heads Up!
by Autumn Libal

“Shoulders back!” “Sit straight!” “Head up!” People are always telling us to have good posture. But good posture isn’t just about looking good, strong, and confident. It also influences development and health. Bad posture squeezes your internal organs, pinches nerves, reduces blood flow to certain parts of your body, and makes breathing and moving difficult. Good posture distributes weight evenly over your whole body, allowing each of your parts to function better.
30 Dishing Out Change
by Emma Sokoloff-Rubin

Emma lives in Port Alegre, Brazil. Her family is living here because her dad, a professor of Latin American Studies, got a grant to come do research on social movements in Brazil. One of these movements is Movemento Das Mulheres, The Women’s Movement.
31 Babes in Toyland
Read why editor, Jennifer Park, is so over toys that come in gender-stereotypical packages.
32 Cut It Out
By A'ine McCarthy

You see it all the time. Girls struggle every day with the message that they’re only beautiful if their bodies fit the narrow image the media says is “perfect.” Seventy-five percent of girls say they would like surgery to change their bodies to look more like the girls and women they see in magazines, in movies, and on TV.
33 Confessions of a Feminist
by Layo Akinremi

If anybody catches me, they’ll know my secret and think I’m a fake. I put the mascara wand down. I don’t want people to think I’m shallow. Can I wear makeup and still be a feminist?