Resources for Teen Dating Violence

Letter to Parents on Teen Dating Abuse
Getting Teen Dating Violence on Your Schools Curriculum
Warning Signs and Statistics

Resources for Eating Disorders

How to talk about Eating Disorders:  A resource for parents from the National Eating Disorders Association
How to get more information about eating disorders
Website for the National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Related Disorders

Website for Teenage Girls

Hardy Girls Healthy Women works to empower young girls

The cover of the latest issue of New York Magazine shows a (thankfully) blurry image of a teen (or possibly tween) girl wearing  red g-string underwear and pulling up her shirt.  Her body, from her scanty underwear to her arms crossed over her breast, is bear.  It’s a pedophiliac’s delight!  The title is “Porn and Junior-High Culture,”  which is exactly what the cover is: junior-high porn!
Please watch Episode 3 of Searching for Sexism, Their Eyes are Watching when it is released tomorrow.  It’s an important statement on how our …

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Here is one major reason why parents should liberate our schools from government and union control: when organizations instead of individuals control our school systems, the organization will impose its own biases, prejudices, and values upon the students. Because the responsibility of education often falls to the mother, women become the main targets and have their rights violated when the controlling organization does not approve of their decisions.

Kelley Williams-Bolar was a single mother in …

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This past year, I have fallen in love with Lisbeth Salander, one of the most riveting, exciting, tough, and empowered literary heroines ever created. And what kills me is that a man conjured her up, giving her skills, smarts, and strength with which to defend herself against a misogynistic andviolent society that targets women and their supposed frailty. Lisbeth Salander might be less than five feet tall, but she fights back physically and intellectually, her instincts for …

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The mother of French model Isabelle Caro committed suicide; Marie Caro’s death was attributed to her depression over her daughter’s death from anorexia.  Isabelle Caro died in mid November from complications of anorexia, which she battled most of her life.  While Caro was very close to her mother, she felt that her mother’s phobia with growth and growing up was a factor in her battle with anorexia.  By not eating, Caro could remain a …

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According to Slate’s XX, women are acting as a strong backbone in the ongoing overthrow of President Mubarak’s broken regime:
An unprecedented number of Egyptian women participated in Tuesday’s anti-government protests. Ghada Shahbandar, an activist with the Egyptian Organization for Human Rights, estimated the crowd downtown to be 20 percent female. Other estimates were as high as 50 percent. In past protests, the female presence would rarely rise to 10 percent. Protests have a reputation …

The New Agenda’s Amy Siskind will be on America News Radio’s TalkRadioNetwork today at 1:35 p.m. EST to discuss Chris Matthews’ ‘balloon head’ comments.
Amy will also discuss her Daily Caller piece Why does MSNBC tolerate Chris Matthews’s Misogyny? which was the most read article on Daily Caller yesterday afternoon.
And, why other women’s groups are not speaking out.
For information on tuning in, check here.

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We have big news! Today we are launching The New Agenda on Campus!!!
TNA on Campus is devoted to the issues and concerns facing college women.  It’s sisterhood, mentoring and activism on campus.   You can check us out here.
And we’re off to a running start…
We have established our maiden chapter at Barnard College, and we already have two events planned this semester!
Join us …

The following op-ed by The New Agenda’s Amy Siskind is featured at The Daily Caller.
Well, apparently Chris Matthews missed President’s Obama’s Tucson Memorial Speech.  The speech in which the President called for civility and toning down of rhetoric. Either that, or Matthews prefers to ignore it!
On the eve of the SOTU, Chris Matthews was back on familiar ground:  demeaning women in power. Matthew’s latest target:  Congresswoman Michele Bachmann.   In fact, Matthews got so wound up in his misogyny, that he lost his composure and control.  He refers to Congresswoman Bachmann …

We should defend every woman who is the victim of spittle-inflected invective of the sexist variety, whether we agree with her politics or not, and Michele Bachmann is no exception. The display of hatred toward her that marked Chris Matthew’s “journalism” on Tuesday night was unsettling for many of us. We’re used to it from Chris, but that doesn’t make it any more palatable to watch. It’s fair to note that Matthews did not start this latest round of invective directed at Bachmann, he was just worked up after a …