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So we had a dance, and
girls
and their fathers came in multitudes.
And the
girls
decided to make it an annual event.
So as the seasons changed, and it was time to plan the dance again, one girl named Brianna spoke up, and she said, "My dad can't come to the dance, and this whole thing is making me sad." "Why not?" the
girls
asked.
"Well, can he just get out for a day?" one of the
girls
asked.
At this moment, I saw an opportunity for the
girls
to rise to the occasion and to become their own heroes.
So the
girls
thought for a moment, and one girl suggested, "Why don't we just take the dance in the jail?"
Most of the
girls
doubted the possibility of that, and said, "Are you crazy?
Who is going to allow a bunch of little girls, dressed up — " (Laughter) " — to come inside a jail and dance with their daddies in Spongebob suits?"
I said, "Girls, well, well, you never know unless you ask."
So, 16 inmates and 18
girls
were invited.
The
girls
were dressed in their Sunday best, and the fathers traded in their yellow and blue jumpsuits for shirts and ties.
I know that very well, because I was one of the lucky
girls.
And that is why it is extremely special for me to make sure that these
girls
are connected to their fathers, especially those who are separated because of barbed wires and metal doors.
We have just created a form for
girls
who have heavy questions on their heart to be in a position to ask their fathers those questions and given the fathers the freedom to answer.
But the second answer, and what I really want to say to these little
girls
is, "Why?
When I was researching this talk, I found out that of the 13-year-old
girls
in the United States, 53% don't like their bodies, and that number goes to 78% by the time that they're 17.
You've got to reach out and back and find kids like Mr. Cruz who can make it if you give them the structure, if you reach back and help, if you mentor, if you invest in boys and
girls
clubs, if you work with your school system, make sure it's the best school system, and not just your kid's school, but the school uptown in Harlem, not just downtown Montessori on the West Side.
There is a lot of great writing about the impact that the boy-violent movie has on girls, and you should do that reading.
They are doing a phenomenal job of teaching
girls
how to defend against the patriarchy, but they are not necessarily showing boys how they're supposed to defend against the patriarchy.
There were a lot of
girls
there as well, so I was utterly mortified.
I was 22, and in the United States, women ages 16 to 24 are three times as likely to be domestic violence victims as women of other ages, and over 500 women and
girls
this age are killed every year by abusive partners, boyfriends, and husbands in the United States.
We started dating, and he loved everything about me, that I was smart, that I'd gone to Harvard, that I was passionate about helping teenage girls, and my job.
I explain chemical equilibrium using analogies to awkward middle school dances, and I talk about fuel cells with stories about boys and
girls
at a summer camp.
You look online, you'll see places like Codecademy and events like CoderDojo and sites like
Girls
Who Code, or Black
Girls
Code.
They said they wouldn't let
girls
play.
At sleepovers I would have panic attacks trying to break it to
girls
that they didn't want to kiss me without outing myself.
At the time I was just beginning to emerge from this eight-year personal identity crisis zigzag that saw me go from being a boy to being this awkward girl that looked like a boy in girl's clothes to the opposite extreme of this super skimpy, over-compensating, boy-chasing girly-girl to finally just a hesitant exploration of what I actually was, a tomboyish girl who liked both boys and
girls
depending on the person.
You see, I was six when the Taliban took over Afghanistan and made it illegal for
girls
to go to school.
She retired two years ago, only to turn our house into a school for
girls
and women in our neighborhood.
That's why I cofounded SOLA, the first and perhaps only boarding school for
girls
in Afghanistan, a country where it's still risky for
girls
to go to school.
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