[Published November 20, 2017 on LinkedIn] My generation of women – those of us born in that hazy space between Gen X and the Millennials – love to talk about how grateful we are to have gone through high school before social media was a thing. We still had the internet, in all its snail’s …
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[Vues sur la Bourgogne, Vol 6, no 3 - Fall 2017] Being a teen girl has always come with a unique mix of pressures and expectations. For today's teens, social media is amplifying those pressures like never before. From music to fashion, girls are already immersed in a culture saturated with sexualized images of young …
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Mitra Thompson 