Girl Rising by Tanya Lee Stone
Although I was unable to attend the on-campus events centering around the Education Department's common read, Girl Rising , by Tanya Lee Stone, I was able to view the linked recording of the author talk. I was very excited to delve deeper into the reasoning behind the writing, and I was curious about how Stone went about picking and choosing between all these incredible stories of survival. In the very beginning of her talk, she noted that there were so many more girls who shared stories that were unable to be included into the book. She went along to remind everyone that it truly is a global issue, and these girls are only snapshots into the broken environment that girls overcome every single day. Something that struck me while listening, and something that really made me think for a long time afterwards, was Stone's viewpoints on the parents. She stated that, "It is hard to judge a parents decision" because the reader or viewer can never assume that they know...