A Mighty Girl

Facebook Twitter Pinterest A Mighty Girl is the world’s largest collection of books and movies for parents, teachers, and others dedicated to raising smart, confident, and courageous girls. After years of seeking out empowering and inspirational books for our four young nieces, we decided to create A Mighty Girl as a resource site to help others equally interested in supporting and celebrating girls. The site was founded on the belief that all children should have the opportunity to read books and watch movies that offer positive messages about girls and honor their diverse capabilities. Girls do not have to be relegated to the role of sidekick or damsel in distress; they can be the leaders, the heroes, the champions that save the day, find the cure, and go on the adventure. It is our hope that these high-quality children’s products will help a new generation of girls to grow and pursue whatever dreams they choose -- to truly be Mighty Girls!

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Into the Wonderland of Books… by Charles Santoso

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Jada Pinkett-Smith is aware of the critics that frown up their noses at the way she raises her daughter, Willow. Willow cuts, dyes and styles her hair as she pleases, a fact that bothers many who feel girls shouldn’t have that much control over their appearance at such a young age.

Jada decided to address the criticism in a Facebook post:

“A letter to a friend…This subject is old but I have never answered it in its entirety. And even with this post it will remain incomplete. The question why I would LET Willow cut her hair. First the LET must be challenged. This is a world where women, girls are constantly reminded that they don’t belong to themselves; that their bodies are not their own, nor their power or self determination. I made a promise to endow my little girl with the power to always know that her body, spirit and her mind are HER domain. Willow cut her hair because her beauty, her value, her worth is not measured by the length of her hair. It’s also a statement that claims that even little girls have the RIGHT to own themselves and should not be a slave to even their mother’s deepest insecurities, hopes and desires. Even little girls should not be a slave to the preconceived ideas of what a culture believes a little girl should be.”

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If you’re a toy company called out on enforcing gender stereotypes by filling your catalog with girls dressed as princesses and boys dressed as superheroes, what do you do? If you’re Top Toy, one of Sweden’s largest toy chains, you print a genderswapped Christmas catalog featuring girls with Nerf guns and boys with doll houses and Hello Kitty. Duh.

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The fact that we are not encouraged to be agents of change is especially frustrating when we realize that social change is omnipresent, it’s happening everywhere all of the time. So basically, we can either be passive and allow change to affect us or we can be active and be the ones who effect change. When we are discouraged from exerting our agency, change is done to us. But when we identify ourselves as everyday activists, we are shaping the change that is occurring.

Everyday Activists (via sociolab)

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A Mighty Girl Wishlists are now SHAREABLE!

We're very excited to share news of a fantastic new feature on A Mighty Girl -- our Wishlist is now shareable! We’ve been receiving many requests for this capability and we hope this shareable wishlist will transform your holiday shopping b

y making it simple for you to share your Mighty Girl's favorite girl-empowering books, toys and movies with grandparents, aunts/uncles, and other relatives and friends.  In case you're not familiar with our Wishlist, it's a simple tool that allows you track items of interest as you browse the site. Each product page on A Mighty Girl has an "Add to Wishlist" button and, when you click this button, you are taken to your personal Wishlist page where you can add notes about the item. With our new "Share Wishlist" button, found at the bottom of your personal wishlist page, you can share your wishlist with others along with a personal message. Our new shareable wishlist makes compiling gift buying lists simple and makes it easy to introduce others to girl-empowering gifts options that they might not otherwise encounter.  If you have an older Mighty Girl in your life, you can even ask your daughter or granddaughter to create her own wishlist to share with family or friends to make holiday and birthday shopping easier.  To get started, simply log into your A Mighty Girl account and click 'Wishlist' on the account menu. Or, if you would like to create an account, visithttp://www.amightygirl.com/customer/account/create/

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My 5 year old reading Captain Marvel on the way home from the comic book store.

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A Urine Powered Generator. An amazing accomplishment by four brilliant girls. The girls are are Duro-Aina Adebola (14), Akindele Abiola (14), Faleke Oluwatoyin (14) and Bello Eniola (15).

    1 Liter of urine gives you 6 hours of electricity.

The system works like this:

Urine is put into an electrolytic cell, which separates out the hydrogen.

The hydrogen goes into a water filter for purification, which then gets pushed into the gas cylinder.

The gas cylinder pushes hydrogen into a cylinder of liquid borax, which is used to remove the moisture from the hydrogen gas.

This purified hydrogen gas is pushed into the generator.

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This is freaking AMAZING. 

xxAA

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Chickasaw storyteller and actress Te Ata (Mary Frances Fisher).

Te Ata (1895-1995) created one woman shows that highlighted Native American folklore through dance, music, and storytelling.  A member of the Chickasaw tribe, Te Ata traveled widely and incorporated traditions from other Native American cultures into her performances.  Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt were among her admirers and Te Ata was invited to perform at both the White House and Hyde Park.

Richard Green, tribal historian for the Chickasaw Nation, published a biography of Te Ata in 2006 (Amazon).  Chickasaw playwright JudyLee Olivia wrote a play based on the life of Te Ata.  The play won the Five Civilized Tribes’ Best American Indian Musical Award in 2000.

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“I need feminism because it is important for people to know the difference between female supremacy and female empowerment!”