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Because I Was a Girl, I Was Told…
A giant gender barrier was nearly hurdled. We asked women to tell us about their own vividly recalled barriers. Here are some of their stories. By Mary Jo Murphy and Sona Patel. (Nov. 12, 2016)
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How America Outlawed Adolescence
At least 22 states make it a crime to disturb school in ways that teenagers are wired to do. Why did this happen? By Amanda Ripley.
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The Secrets of Isis
Episode 2, “Fool’s Dare.” [Series Playlist]
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Dribbling in the Dark
What it’s like to be 14 in a new school, a new city away from home—and the wrong ethnicity in a divided country. By Andrew W. Jones.
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A Teen Witch’s Guide to Staying Alive
On "Teen Witch," teen witches, Shirley Jackson, and survival. By Alice Bolin.
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I Guess We Lost
Okkervil River
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The Child Prodigies Who Became 20th-Century Celebrities
Every generation produces kid geniuses, but in the early 1900s, the public was obsessed with them. By Greg Daugherty. (June 24, 2013)
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Why One Woman Pretended to Be a High-School Cheerleader
At 33, Wendy Brown stole her daughter’s name, grabbed a pair of pom-poms, lived a teenage dream—then she went to jail for it. By Jeff Maysh.
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My Childhood in an Apocalyptic Cult
A clandestine cult with twenty children to a room, no outside music, movies or books, and no contact beyond the compound. For the first fifteen years of my life, this was my normal. By Flor Edwards. (April 9, 2014)
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Malcolm X and the Model Minority
“I wanted to prove that I could get away with brazen theft because of a status earned by a decade’s worth of positive assumptions about my ethnicity…” By A. Sandosharaj.
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A Diamond and a Kiss: The Women of John Hughes
There was a reason none of the teens in the legendary director's films were real rebels, but rather outsiders with an eye on upward mobility. By Soraya Roberts.
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The Homemade Abortion
A Caged Bird, a Quinceaneara, and the American Dream. By Florina Rodov.
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Institutionalized
Suicidal Tendencies (1982)
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The New Man of 4chan
Can a retreat from the authority of the nuclear family into an extended adolescence of videogames, porn, and pranks really be described as patriarchal? By Angela Nagle.
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Girls Just Wanna Be Heard
In her new book, Nancy Jo Sales explores how teenage girls on social media provoke attention—but fails to show how they also demand respect.
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