A teenage girl's blog

Hello beautiful! I hope you are doing well! I want to talk about feminism again today, more specifically, the need for feminism. Something that I've noticed when some people speak about feminism is this wrongly conceived idea that feminism isn't necessary. Other variations of this thought might include, "Feminism isn't necessary anymore" or "Feminism isn't necessary in America." I personally disagree with all of these opinions, and this post will be dedicated to explaining w

Hello beautiful! I hope you hare having an amazing, fun, spontaneous day! I say that because I know that most of my audience is women(or so I hope), and because I'm becoming more and more concerned about the ideas that society has adopted towards women and maturity. The quality of being "grown up" is expected early in girls approaching adulthood (late teens and early twenties) while their male counterparts are encouraged to have fun and enjoy their youth. This double standard

Hello beautiful! Today's post will be the last one intended to help you all with this back to school season. Most of you are probably back in school by now, and your curriculums might be starting to pick up the pace. Last week I talked about the trend known as toxic study motivation and how it can affect students; you can read that post here. This post will be a little bit similar, but I want to focus in a little bit more on what we know as burnout. This is a term that we use

Hello beautiful! For most of us, at this time of year, schoolwork is picking up and with it, studying time. Today, I want to address the trend that we know as toxic study motivation. This "motivation" often comes in the form of a video of someone essentially shaming you for needing a break or not feeling like studying. They use deprecation as a method to get you to listen to them. I think that this trend has revealed the truth about not only the way that society views motiva

Hello beautiful! For many of you, school is starting soon, or it's already started. So, the next couple of posts on this blog will be related to bao school season and much of the stress that can come with it. I've found that a lot of this stress isn't necessarily about the managing the schoolwork itself but more so about looking up to par for when the first day of school rolls around. Appearance becomes the most important part of being around people regularly, in an atmospher

Hello beautiful! I hope you are having an amazing day! I know that a lot of people are going back to school now, so I thought that now would be a good time to write another post about academics, more specifically: the divide between STEM and the humanities in high school and beyond. Humanities is often seem as less important and less practical in the "real world," but today, I want to speak to all of the teens interested in a humanistic discipline and explain my point of view

Hello beautiful! I hope you are having an amazing day! Today, I want to talk about the differences in how women and men in the entertainment industry are treated, especially regarding appearance. Time and time again, we have proven that the primary thing society sees in a woman is her appearance, but the same isn't always true about a man. They are often seen for their accomplishments or their talents, while women are judged using a superficial and almost entirely unrealisti

Hello beautiful! I hope you are all having an amazing summer, but some of you might already be going back to school which is beyond ludicrous to me. Anyway, today's post is about what I see as the plague of pretty much every teenager out there: comparing oneself to others. We've all heard the famous saying: "Comparison is the thief of joy." But I'd never really thought deeply about why comparison was so harmful. I'd always used it as a motivator, especially in school. Recentl

Hello beautiful! Today's post is about one of the most important aspects of my identity as the child of two immigrants: language. My parents were both born in Ethiopia; my mom and dad both speak Amharic, and my dad also speaks Afaan Oromo. When I was growing up, my parents spoke Amharic in the house, but I never put in an effort to respond in Amharic. So now, I can speak some Amharic, and I can understand others when they speak, but I'm not as comfortable speaking it as I wou

Hello beautiful! I hope you're doing well! Today's post is about a more sensitive topic, so if you're not comfortable reading about eating disorders, this is your sign to exit this tab. Before I start off today's post, I want to tell everyone that I've never been diagnosed with an eating disorder, I'm not a doctor, and I've never done any professional research on any of the topics that I'm going to talk about. I have, however, done my own personal research about disordered ea

Hello beautiful! I hope you are doing splendidly! While I'm writing this, I'm not in the U.S! It's nighttime in my hotel in Rome, Italy! It's only my second day here, but I've had so much fun already despite the debilitating heat. Rome is such a walkable city, but not when you're drenched in your own sweat. Anyway, that's enough about me. Today, I'm going to talk about textured hairstyles on Black people and why I think they're perceived the way that they are. Hair discrimin

Hello beautiful! I hope you are having an amazing day! For today, I want to talk to the therapist friends out there. I think that the idea of a "therapist friend" has been popularized though the internet and skits on social media, but I'm going to try to unpack it a little deeper. For those of us who aren't on social media, the "therapist friend" is someone who is often the point of emotional support for their friend or friend group without receiving that support back. If you

Hello beautiful! I hope you are doing well! I've spent my first full week for summer shelving library books and looking after pre-schoolers, and it's been amazing. Today, I writing about perfectionism. As someone who knows what it feels like to be weighed down by my own expectations of myself, I'm going to bring my opinions on perfectionism to the conversation and also speak about how perfectionism affects women and girls. If you have something you'd like to add or a contradi

Hello beautiful! I hope you're doing well! I know I definitely am, now that the school year is over! Today's post will be about women's sizing and how arbitrary it can be. In my opinion, we attach too much value to the number on the tag, especially because it varies from brand to brand. In this post, I'll talk about why those numbers vary and my personal thoughts on the system that we have here in the U.S. Timeline of Women's Sizing Before the 1940s, there weren't real sizing

Hello beautiful! I hope you are having an amazing day! I think that for a lot of us, school is already over; I finished classes this past week. But, for those of you that are still finishing up, you're almost there! For me, moving into the next grade of high school means I'm one step closer to college. I know I should be excited, but I feel like I have no solid idea of where I'm supposed to go and what I'm supposed to do with my life. That's what I'm going to talk about toda

Hello beautiful! I hope you all are doing well! School is ALMOST OVER, and I am so ready to be able to post more consistently during the summer! Today's post is about feminism and the weird misconceptions surrounding it, especially in the teenage community. I think that sexism can be a lot more subtle nowadays, but it 100% still exists. This post will be about my opinions, so if you disagree, feel free to express your thoughts and ideas in the comments, but don't expect me t

Hello beautiful! I'm so happy to be writing for you all this week! I've been in a bit of a slump these past few days, and writing always helps me feel inspired again. I know I'm a bit early for this, but in today's post, I'm going to be talking about body image during the summer. From my experience, something about the season of summer makes the demons of negative body image ever more present. Summer fashion and summer heat usually call for more revealing outfits, so those of

Hello, beautiful! Sorry I haven't posted in two weeks! I've been super busy and overwhelmed because I had tech week for a musical at my school. It was really fun, and I'm so proud of myself, but I didn't have time for anything other than homework after I got home from rehearsals, which meant I couldn't write for you all. But anyways, for today's post I'm going to talk about periods and menstruating. This is different than a lot of the topics I've written about on my blog, be

Hello beautiful! Today's post is about one of my favorite hobbies: journaling! I started journaling almost a year ago, just to document my life, so I could read my past journals and look back on my life. Now, journaling means so much more to me, and it's one of my favorite hobbies. I have a bullet journal for cute collages and spreads to get my ideas on a page, and I also have a journal for my thoughts where I write recaps of my day and respond to prompts that make me think.

Hello beautiful! I hope you've had an amazing week! Today's post is going to be about clothing, aesthetics, and feeling confident wearing what you want to wear. I've spent some time over the past few months trying to develop my own personal style. I wore a uniform at my old school, but at my new school, there's not much of a dress code. It feels like somebody just handed me the reigns to a personal style carriage, already moving at 50 miles per hour, when I started going to a