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    • Visual Arts: Fall-Winter 2021-2022

      Visual Arts: Fall-Winter 2021-2022

      We love receiving your visual art submissions, NOLA girls! Y’all are seriously talented. If you want your visual art to be featured in Geaux Girl!, click the Get Published in Geaux Girl! link and file out the submission form.The Female Gaze by Lily Kaloustian...

    • Panic Attacks

      Panic Attacks

      Because my heart beat, I can, tell because it's faint yet steady, that steady... 1... 2...3... current, carries me because they've, spurred recently because for me, *take a breath* it's four years, four years turned into six months at least with weekly counseling,...

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    • Slushy Snowballs!

      Slushy Snowballs!

      Stay cool out there! The New Orleans summer has a way of making even my favorite activity—eating—feel impossibly difficult. When the heat index climbs into the triple digits and the air is so humid you could wear it, snowballs are the perfect antidote. If you’re not...

    • Resources for Your Mental Health

      Resources for Your Mental Health

      If you are struggling with anxiety, depression, suicidal thoughts, or any form of mental distress, reach out to someone right away who can be there for you. Professional help is always an option when your psychological well-being is at risk. There is zero shame in...

    • Get It and Forget It Birth Control: LARCs

      Get It and Forget It Birth Control: LARCs

      If you have never heard about LARCs or are wondering what the most effective forms of birth control are, this article is for you! “Long-acting reversible contraception” is a type of birth control that works for a long time but is not a permanent choice. LARCs may last...

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    • Life Lessons For Your Zodiac Personality

      Life Lessons For Your Zodiac Personality

      Aries (March 21 – April 19) Aries wants to save the world just for the sake of a battle or quest. They care deeply about everything and at the same time often feel detached from it all. Remaining fully engaged is a daily exercise for Aries. Aries rules the mind and...

    • Ready for School

      Ready for School

      Don’t have a lot of time in the morning but want to look put together (without getting dress coded)? Brittani and Zari showed our model, Miracle (13) from Pierre A. Capdau Charter School, how it’s done. We also asked them to share some must-have products that aren’t...

    • How to Make a Vision Board

      How to Make a Vision Board

      It’s a brand-new decade, ladies! Jumping into 2020 marks a great time to reflect on your goals and ambitions for the year (and your life) ahead. We all have big dreams for our lives. But sometimes it can be overwhelming to think about how you’re going to achieve even...

    • Must Read Books Spring-Summer 2023

      Must Read Books Spring-Summer 2023

      The Davenports  by Krystal Marquis What it’s about: A historical romance story, with much more emphasis on the romance than the history, The Davenports is about an immensely wealthy Black family in 1910 Chicago. The teenage Davenport daughters, Olivia and Helen,...

    • 10 Tips for Filmmaking on Your Phone or Tablet

      10 Tips for Filmmaking on Your Phone or Tablet

      1. Establish your story beforehand Who is your main character, and what is their goal? Almost all projects—from animated films to nature documentaries to commercials—have a story and character at their center. Figure this out early on, and all other decisions will be...

    • Expand Your Mind

    • Gender Identity & Gender Expression – Some Basics

      Gender Identity & Gender Expression – Some Basics

      LGBTQIA+ = Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, Questioning or Queer, Intersex, and Asexual and any self-identifying member of the community not included in the LGBTQIA acronym Before we can dive into a discussion about gender identity, gender expression, and pronouns, we...

    • Local Shero: Big Freedia

      Local Shero: Big Freedia

      “Sometimes I feel like people make too big a deal of labels in general. I just say be who you want to be. My music, my fashion, my look—I’m in my own category,” the flamboyant, sparkling musician told us. This is exactly what Big Freedia is known for: her remarkable...

    • When I Grow Up: Careers in Sports

      When I Grow Up: Careers in Sports

      Do you love sports and wonder if there’s a career for you beyond being a professional athlete? We interviewed two very cool women who turned their talent and passion for their sport—boxing and basketball—into a career in sports leadership and coaching.Susie Poulter...

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Until Next Time

Until Next Time

listening to your voice before I go to sleep is what brings me through the day you don’t fully smile a lot insecure about the shape but your boxy smile is my lifeline you tell me to sleep it’s good...
S.O.S. (Saving Ourselves)

S.O.S. (Saving Ourselves)

They say,God isn’t a woman.And I say,“She is my savior.” Women are the saviors ofsons and daughters,they are war heroes.They are delicately stitched seams,deliberate and tuckedaway.They are...
A Young Black Mind: My Body Is Beautiful

A Young Black Mind: My Body Is Beautiful

“I think that whatever size or shape body you have, it’s important to embrace it and get down!”— CHRISTINA AGUILERA Before I begin, a lesson for all girls is to know that no matter what, beauty...
Coffee Cups

Coffee Cups

Outside of the coffee shop, there is a man who belongs to the bench outside of it. Hair bushes slightly over his eyes. Though he still manages to eye me as I walk past. He barely budges when I...
Where I’m From

Where I’m From

Where I’m From By MAGGIE DUNN I am from hand-me-down books.From daydreams and space cadets.I am from the back roads of New Orleans: bright, bold and tasting like spice.I am from the roses in the...
White Feminism

White Feminism

White feminism is telling me I’m too aggressive and loudToo much melanin in my skin to be considered credibleWhite feminism is saying everything is just a gendered issueAnd the patriarchy has...