I just came across a wonderful media critique by a young woman who decided to promote life outside the tiny box of how girls and women are supposed to look and act by stepping into it. Jamie Keiles is an 18 year old who spent 30 days at the end of her senior year of high school living according to Seventeen Magazine and blogged about the experience. She did discover a new hairstyle but told NPR, “… I’d love to see them just use this opportunity to sort of reinvent themselves as a go-to for, like, innovative articles on arts and culture and crafts and current events. And, I mean, let’s set the bar a little higher for teen girls. Like, we’re not all about hair and makeup. We’re a unique group. I’d love to see Seventeen give girls something a little more to strive for.”
Read more in Jamie’s own voice about how young women are more than hair and makeup at her blog, The Seventeen Magazine Project and listen to her interview with NPR.
