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CREATED FOR AND WITH NEW ORLEANS TEEN GIRLS FALL/WINTER 2018-19 you geaux girl Meet Teen Entrepreneur Kelly Yu Teen writing, photography, DIY, music & more GEAUX GIRL! FALL/WINTER 2018-19 1 Available in print at locations across the city, including all New Orleans Public Library branches, and online at geauxgirlmagazine.org. Follow Us! Email Us! [email protected] As a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, Geaux Girl! relies on the generosity of passionate individuals and engaged organizations to fulfill its mission. 2 GEAUX GIRL! FALL/WINTER 2018-19 Contents Express Yourself 18 Photography Submissions 26 Hair & Makeup: Shine Bright 30 DIY: Shibori Dyeing 33 Nail Art: Abstract Color Swipe You Geaux Girl: Kelly Yu 40 Be Well 9 Yoga: Peace Out Expand Your Mind 14 Girls Giving Advice 19 Social Issue: Immigration 16 The Savage Makeover: Anxiety 34 #EverydayNewOrleans 22 Real Talk 40 You Geaux Girl: Kelly Yu 24 But I Said Yes: TEEN WRITING: Sexual Consent & Your Rights 42 Rémy’s Recipe 8 Free the Tampon 12 Local Shero: Tania Tetlow 38 When Boredom Strikes I Write 26 Hair & Makeup: Shine Bright Have Fun 3 What’s Happening in New Orleans Indigeaux Girls (Shibori Dyeing) 4 Dat’s My Jam 30 5 Must Read Books this Fall & Winter The beautiful photograph on the cover was taken by Program Spotlight: Blanca Carolina Dubón, who was then a senior at Grace 37 King High School and is now studying at Delgado Girls on the Run Community College to become a registered nurse. Blanca took the photo earlier this year while participating in the 44 Nola Esoteric’s Magical World New Orleans Museum of Art’s #EverydayNewOrleans project. The girl in the photo is her best friend, Hillary Avila. “She represents everyday New Orleans to me because of her kindness, love and support,” Blanca told us. More about #EverydayNewOrleans on page 34. GEAUX GIRL! FALL/WINTER 2018-19 2 LETTER FROM THE FOUNDERS: THANK YOU Geaux Girl! would not be a reality without the involvement of many, many wonderful and inspiring individuals. Thank you to all the local teen and adult contributors who make this magazine what it is, and to everyone else who has offered expertise and help because they are as excited about Geaux Girl!’s mission as we are. A special shout-out to Dr. Florencia “Renni” Polite who recently left New Orleans ( ) for a great leadership opportunity at her alma mater, the University of Pennsylvania. We are beyond proud to call Dr. Polite our founding sex ed and girls’ health expert and thrilled that she is still with us as a board member. Dr. Polite believed in Geaux Girl! when the magazine was Just a vision and made our dreams come true with her Real Talk feature. Thank you, Dr. Polite, for being awesome! And a warm welcome to Dr. La’Nasha Tanner, who has taken over Real Talk. We are delighted to work with you and your team of doctors! Many thanks to Silke Pielsticker for her signature drawings, Betsy Seifter for being our invaluable and passionate grammar and punctuation authority, and Sam Winston for absolutely everything. Last but not least, we are very excited to have the Patrick F. Taylor Foundation as a sponsor and sincerely appreciate their generous contribution in support of this issue. We are grateful to the Taylor Foundation for all they’re doing for young people in New Orleans and beyond. As always, a heartfelt thanks to Scott Cowen, whose support and generosity are immeasurable and mean the world. We also want to thank Chandni Patel, who fell in love with Geaux Girl! during a NOLA visit from far-away NYC and surprised us with a gift on her birthday to ensure that we can keep spreading the Geaux Girl! love. xoxo, The Geaux Girl! Team Geaux Girl! is a print and online magazine created for and with New Orleans teen girls to inform, inspire, engage, and empower. GEAUX GIRL MEDIA IS A 501(C)(3) NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION. Editor in Chief: HEIDE WINSTON Executive Director: HEIDE WINSTON Teen Advisory Council Creative Director: LIZ JUREY Board of Directors NAOMI-CORRINE ADLER MAE ANGLIM Community Outreach Volunteer & HEIDE WINSTON (Chair) Y’VONNE ANTOINE Contributing Editor: ERIN ZIMMER STRENIO DANIELLE DEL SOL EVELYNN COFFIE Interns Extraordinaire: FLORENCIA POLITE, M.D. ELLA DENSEN COURTNEY PELLEGRINI & MELANIE CARBERY KAITLYN JONES Officers NITZAYAH SCHILLER Printing: MPRESS HEIDE WINSTON (President & Secretary) GENESIS SCOTT DANIELLE DEL SOL (Vice President & Treasurer) MYLAH TRACY Founders: HEIDE WINSTON & DANIELLE DEL SOL geauxgirlmagazine.org [email protected] 2 GEAUX GIRL! FALL/WINTER 2018-19 2 GEAUX GIRL! FALL/WINTER 2018-19 Heide Winston Liz Jurey MPress THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11 SUNDAY, OCTOBER 21 THURSDAY, DECEMBER 6 – Athleta International Day of the G!RL Music Box Village SUNDAY, DECEMBER 9 Halloween Art Market What Come celebrate International Day of LUNA Fête the G!RL with a party! Tere’ll be dream What Flea, vintage, and handmade goods + boards, a braid bar, nail bar and aferschool workshops + cofee + food vendors What Tis multi-day celebration features snacks by Te Kupcake Factory and illuminated installations, digital sculptures, When 12:00pm–6:00pm Smoothie King. Be sure to be one of the frst video-mapping projections, and art animated 20 girls to receive a specialty fower crown by Where Music Box Village, 4557 N by technology. Blucid Floral! Rampart St. When 6:00pm–10:00pm When 4:00pm-8:00pm (Tanksgiving Market is on November 18; Where Lafayette Square and along Where Athleta Store, 3301 Veterans Holiday Market on December 16) Lafayette Street to Fulton Street Memorial Blvd. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26 SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13 WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 16 Teen Halloween Dance Day of the Girl at Longue Vue Cartooning Workshop What Put on your best costume and bring What What Participants will share ideas about your fendish friends for a scary good time. Take a look at Southern caricatures beauty, art and social justice and work alongside Celebrate the dead by getting live on the with staf at the Ogden Museum before Longue Vue’s 2018 Artist-in-Residence Jamar dancefoor and enjoy rafes and free food. walking next door to Te National WWII Pierre and celebrated mural artist Monica Kelly Museum, where a cartoonist gives partici- to create a collaborative large-scale painting When 7:00pm–10:00pm pants the basics of drawing, cartooning, and honoring the experiences of young women. (Te Where Lyons Rec Center, 624 caricature art. You’ll leave with your very event is designed for girls in 6th-12th grade.) Louisiana Ave. own work of art! All supplies will be When 9:30am–12:00pm provided. (Teens and adults welcome.) Where Longue Vue House and Gardens, 7 SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 11 When 5:00pm–7:30pm Bamboo Rd. Where Te Ogden Museum of Southern Oak Street Po-Boy Festival Art, 925 Camp St. (and the National WWII SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20 What Te festival celebrates New Orleans' Museum, 945 Magazine St.) favorite sandwich with four stages of music Krewe of BOO! Halloween Parade and more than 35 local po-boy vendors. SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 24 What Tis spooktacular parade is unlike When 10:00am–6:00pm any other Halloween event. Krewe of Barkus Parade Where Oak Street in the Carrollton What Check out New Orleans’ canine When Rolls at 6:30pm neighborhood Mardi Gras krewe to see lots and lots of Where Te parade lines up on Elysian Fields adorable dogs in costumes. Your furry best Avenue and follows N. Peters and Decatur friend can even be part of the parade Streets along the river heading uptown past Jackson Square. At Canal Street, the parade (registration information is on their website)! makes a right turn and continues to Burgundy When Rolls at 2:00pm Street where it makes a U-turn and comes back Where Te parade starts at Armstrong Park to Tchoupitoulas Street. It follows Tchoupitoulas Street all the way to Andrew Higgins Drive. (N. Rampart at St. Ann) and proceeds on a 15-block route through the French Quarter. Follow us at @geauxgirlmagazine to get updates on local events! geauxgirlmagazine.org [email protected] TIP: Check out the websites of the New Orleans Recreation Development Commission, NORDC.ORG, New Orleans Public Library, NOLALIBRARY.ORG, YMCA of Greater New Orleans, YMCANEWORLEANS.ORG, and New Orleans JCC, NOJCC.ORG, for special activities and events. GEAUX GIRL! FALL/WINTER 2018-19 3 DAT’S MY JAM! FAVORITE HAPPY SONG: “Like a G6” (feat. Te Cataracs & Dev) by FAVORITE HAPPY SONG: “Part Time Lover” by Stevie Wonder Far East Movement BEST SONG TO CRY YOUR EYES OUT TO: “Hold My Hand” by BEST SONG TO CRY YOUR EYES OUT TO: “White Ferrari” by Frank Ocean Michael Jackson SONG I’M EMBARRASSED TO ADMIT I LOVE: “Tonight Tonight” by SONG I’M EMBARRASSED TO ADMIT I LOVE: “Gangsta” by Kehlani Hot Chelle Rae SONG THAT MAKES ME DANCE LIKE NOBODY’S WATCHING: SONG THAT MAKES ME DANCE LIKE NOBODY’S WATCHING: “Tis Is America” by Childish Gambino “Look What You Made Me Do” by Taylor Swif FAVORITE LOCAL ARTIST: Solange because she sings about FAVORITE LOCAL ARTIST: Big Freedia because she is just so spunky her experiences. and awesome. She pumps me up. Kelsie (14), New Orleans Center for Creative Arts Anne Marie (17), St. Mary’s Dominican High School FAVORITE HAPPY SONG: “Confdence” by Chris Brown FAVORITE HAPPY SONG: “Uptown Funk” (f. Bruno Mars) by BEST SONG TO CRY YOUR EYES OUT TO: “In My Feelings” by Kehlani Mark Ronson SONG I’M EMBARRASSED TO ADMIT I LOVE: Any song by BEST SONG TO CRY YOUR EYES OUT TO: “Never Not” by Lauv PRETTYMUCH.