GIRL POSITIVE

Girl Positive is a groundbreaking book that takes an engaging, cutting-edge view of the issues facing girls today. With compassion and a sense of adventure, Girl Positive explores these issues deeply from both the girls' points of view, via stories collected across the continent in person and on Twitter, and via the research into the cultural machine that raises and influences them.

By exalting girls in their own voices and weaving their stories through discussions of popular culture, media, educational institutions, and contemporary behaviors, the authors bring to light the key challenges, as well as the changes required to pave the way to a more powerful future for girls. Survival Kit tips to help teachers, parents, and communities care better for their girl populations are included at the end of each chapter.

By exploring the issues facing girls today, from violence, health, hypersexuality and cyberspace identities – to girls transforming the world as leaders and agents of change – Girl Positive flips the script. Forcing us to break out of the narrow extreme viewpoint of girls as all-powerful or victim, Girl Positive illuminates the great potential and real possibilities for today's girls and paves a trail to their growing empowerment.

TATIANA FRASER is co-founder and the Executive Director of Girls Action Foundation, and was named one of Canada's Top 100 Powerful Women. Tatiana is an invited member of the McConnell Foundation's Social Innovation Lab, a national network of innovative organizations advancing social development in Canada. She has provided consultation to many projects, including a United Nations Association of Canada project called Healthy Children, Healthy Communities; the Alliance of Canadian Research Centres on Violence for a Canada-wide study of violence in girls' lives; the Women's Constitutions and Democratic Renewal Conference; and Determinants of Health of the Girl Child, a study conducted by the Canadian Institute for Child Health.

CAIA HAGEL's work has appeared in Art Review, Azure, CODE, Elle, Epok, Highlife, Hotshoe, Indesign, Madame, Marie-Claire, National Geographic, Oyster, Oxygen, Rolling Stone, Studio Voice, The Believer, The Sydney Morning Herald, Travel + Leisure, Vogue, and Wallpaper. In 2010 Caia co-founded rightfoot+creative, a boutique creative co-op that brings together musical artists, graphic designers, editors, wordsmiths, circus performers, printers, models, stylists, and photographers and filmmakers as the projects demand, to create groundbreaking, thought-provoking and stirring media.