Note: This is a guest post by Katie Rice, who was inspired by Girldrive to go on her own Southern version. Got a great idea for a guest series? Email me at nona@girl-drive.com. When I came home to St. Louis for Thanksgiving break last fall, I found my sister’s copy of GirlDrive sitting on the [...]

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I’ve posted before about how I regret rushing through the South on our original road trip–especially since it was one of the most fascinating stretches of the whole Girldrive experience. I’ve been doing an off-and-on Southern series to fill in the gaps, and it looks like two ladies from Hendrix College in Arkansas have helped [...]

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Note: I frequently feature readers’ answers to one or more of the questions Emma and I asked on our road trip. Find out how to submit here. Gabrielle, 19: Born and raised in Atlanta, GA, to her former fashion-designer mother, currently an artist, student, and founder of The Stripped Project, a subversive art project about [...]

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I got to hang out with Those Darlins the other day for a story in the upcoming VenusZine (a great Chicago-based feminist pop culture mag, recently resurrected!). The band–consisting of, from left, Nikki, Kelley, and Jessi Darlin, all in their 20s–are from Murfreesborough, TN, and their music has a versatile, poppy, countryish, rock vibe. I’m [...]

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When Alexis told me that there’s a fierce community of feminists in Durham, NC, she wasn’t playing. Thanks to the new Google buzz (about which I’m not totally sure how I feel), I got wind of the Eternal Summer of the Black Feminist’s Mind. It’s essentially an intergenerational school of Black feminism, hosting “survival schools” [...]

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Note: I frequently feature readers’ answers to one or more of the questions Emma and I asked on our road trip. Find out how to submit here. Javacia: 28, writer and educator, lives in Birmingham, Alabama, blogs at GeorgiaMae.com, where she writes about feminism, race issues, media, pop culture and more. Do you consider yourself [...]

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Note: This post is Part Three of a series on young feminists or activists below the Mason-Dixon line, since I feel like we didn’t allot the South quite enough time on our original road trip. Feel free to suggest a series on your own part of the country–email nona [at] girl-drive [dot] com. Kerrie: 30, [...]

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Note: This post is Part Two of a series on young feminists or activists below the Mason-Dixon line, since I feel we didn’t allot the South quite enough time on our original road trip. Feel free to suggest a series on your own part of the country–email nona [at] girl-drive [dot] com Alexis Pauline Gumbs, [...]

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Note: This post is Part One of a series on young feminists or activists below the Mason-Dixon line, since we didn’t allot the South enough time on our original road trip. Feel free to suggest a series on your own part of the country–email nona [at] girl-drive [dot] com Kate Shapiro: 26, a “queer, anti-zionist [...]

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