What Is Life Like at Oprah’s Leadership Academy?
"I applaud Oprah or anyone who can financially fund such a project but while reading the article I was asking myself if $40 million was a little extreme for a school with initial enrollment of 152 girls. What could $40 million do for underprivileged children here in the U.S? Or, could more schools have been built that were not quite as grand? " SLK The Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls opened in 2007, backed by $40 million and the eponymous benefactor’s desire to provide young, promising female students opportunities her own impoverished background never could. Located in Henly-on-Klip, South Africa, ...
ED 101 — A Film About Eating Disorders
This is our first post from Robyn Hussa, President of Normal in Schools (NIS). She started NIS driven to bring to our schools education about eating disorder through theater (or as Robyn would say "theatre" but I'm not so hip to the art scene). We all think we know everything about eating disorders, after all we are suffers, or recovered sufferers so we understand more than anyone right? Not so fast. Through my friendship with Robyn I have learned the truth about EDs, and the exhausting process of getting people to LISTEN. We talk, we talk, we talk -- in fact that is all we ...
“Just the way you are” by Bruno Mars — er — Rihanna?
Every time I hear "Just the way you are" by Bruno Mars I get ticked off. Why do women need someone to tell us we are beautiful, or funny, or skinny, or whatever? Why can't we just stand on our own? Why can't we take a compliment? The really pathetic part about this song is it is TRUE. We ask our partners "Do I look ok? Do I look fat? Am I pretty? And on and on and on and on." Think about how tired that must be for a guy. I'd like you to read how totally ridiculous this song would be if say ...
Jade’s Story: Video recorded three days before suicide
I came across this video on the weekend. I cried. I felt sick. It has since haunted me. I felt deeply saddened. Then mad. Then confused. Then feeling as if I should do something. I don’t know what that something is….but sharing Jade’s story is a start. Jade chose a You Tube video to express her torment. Her torment at the hands of bullies who called her names and made her feel hated, isolated and intensely sad. She killed herself 3 days after posting the video. How do those bullies feel now? I hope they feel like shit. I hope that everyone ...
If only I could have been this 16 year old
Meet Andre'a. A 16 year old girl who reached out to me and asked me to watch her video. As I watched, I kept thinking about why some of us seem to be naturally confident, self assured and acceptant of themselves, while the vast majority linger around in self loathing for a lifetime. So is Andre'a just a natural? Or did she learn her wisdom from someone in her life? You be the judge.
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