Teen Voices
A Daughter’s Love of Her Father Can’t Be Locked Up
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Teen Ashley Christie struggles with having a dad who is in prison. She said part of the reason she wrote this essay was to “allow him to be a part of my life.”
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Teen Ashley Christie struggles with having a dad who is in prison. She said part of the reason she wrote this essay was to “allow him to be a part of my life.”
Tiana Zuniga wrote about beauty for the Girls Write Now anthology, “Voice to Voice: Girls Write Now’s 2015 Anthology,” because “definitions of beauty change, and that puts pressure on people to constantly change the way they look.”
It was always hard for Girls Write Now teen Rachel Aghanwa to write about her race but then an ad she saw while traveling in Nigeria made her realize she should see herself as a blessing, instead of a curse.
Writer Charlene Vasquez calls her voice “my advocate for autism.” The piece below originally appeared in “Voice to Voice: Girls Write Now’s 2015 Anthology.”