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    • Visual Arts: Summer 2021

      Visual Arts: Summer 2021

      Point of View by Kylie Fisher (16),New Orleans Center for Creative ArtsWe 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...

    • One Little Flower

      One Little Flower

      i planted a flower,one little flower in its own little pot.on the surface it was pretty ordinary,but something about it was special. or maybe i just thought so. the bees loved it,and the butterflies loved it,and the birds loved it,and even squirrels and rabbits loved...

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    • Feel-Good Smoothies

      Feel-Good Smoothies

      It feels a little funny to write a recipe for a smoothie. In a way, anything can be a smoothie if you just throw it into the blender. Still, the right blend of ingredients has the power to not only give you a fast, convenient meal but also a slew of health benefits....

    • Effortlessly PERFECT

      Effortlessly PERFECT

      Effortless perfection: The expectation that one would be smart, accomplished, fit, beautiful, and popular, and that all this would happen without visible effort.The term “effortless perfection” was coined at my alma mater, Duke University, in 2003 and has since been...

    • Teen-Friendly NOLA Clinics Fall 2022

      Teen-Friendly NOLA Clinics Fall 2022

      Teen-Friendly NOLA ClinicsClinics that serve adolescents usually focus on the reproductive health needs of adolescents and young adults but may also provide primary care services. The ages served vary depending on the clinic, but they usually include preteens (11 or...

    • Have Fun

    • Common Dream Symbols (and What They Mean)

      Common Dream Symbols (and What They Mean)

      Dreaming has always been one of my favorite ways to get to know myself on a deeper level. Although dreams can rarely be fully understood and interpreted, the process of trying to make sense of our dreams is important for self-reflection and personal growth. When I was...

    • Shine Bright

      Shine Bright

      It’s the season of dressing up! Woot woot! (Well, is there ever a time when us New Orleanians don’t get to dress up!?) The fall and winter months are perfect for a little extravagance. Voodoo Fest, Halloween, holiday parties, winter formal, Mardi Gras… lots of...

    • Mindfulness Jar

      Mindfulness Jar

      by Lauren PerryEver had a moment when you feel overwhelmed and completely stressed by your thoughts, feelings, and emotions? Me too, and hear me when I say: it’s completely normal. It’s normal to want to yell, shut down, cry, throw something, or fall into a rabbit...

    • Must Read Books Fall 2022

      Must Read Books Fall 2022

      Does My Body Offend You? by Mayra Cuevas & Marie Marquardt What it’s about: Malena is attending a new school in Florida, displaced from her home in Puerto Rico due to Hurricane Maria. After getting a bad sunburn, she goes to school without a bra and is humiliated...

    • Program Spotlight: NOVAC

      Program Spotlight: NOVAC

      ABOUT NOVAC: Since 1972, NOVAC has been offering video production classes to New Orleanians and empowering diverse communities to use film as an educational and social action tool. They’ve got a big birthday coming up: 50 years in 2022! NOVAC offers free youth...

    • Expand Your Mind

    • Every Body is Beautiful

      Every Body is Beautiful

      Every Body is Beautiful  Bodies come in all shapes, sizes, skin types and tones, and with different physical abilities. Every body truly is unique. Yet, our world—especially the media—tends to diminish this body diversity and instill in many of us a narrow...

    • Audrey Ligier: You Geaux Girl

      Audrey Ligier: You Geaux Girl

      MEET AUDREY LIGIER, a rising high school sophomore at Morris Jeff Community School who became Louisiana’s first transgender homecoming queen last November.Age: 15 Best advice ever received? Confidence is everything. Personal Motto: Don’t be afraid to do what you want...

    • When I Grow Up: Public Service & Public Affairs

      When I Grow Up: Public Service & Public Affairs

      Public Service & Public AffairsDo you want to have a career that makes a difference in the community and never gets boring? We interviewed former Councilmember Kristin Gisleson Palmer, who recently finished a second term on the New Orleans City Council...

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Pretty Girls

Pretty Girls

Pretty face with a small waistI’m a pretty girlPretty stories with ugly truths I used to be a pretty girlPretty girls were quiet, polite and needyEvery boy wants a pretty girlGirls like me were...
Rules of Canal Street

Rules of Canal Street

Earbuds are suicideKeep your eyes peeled for bottlesAnd your nose peeled for weedAvoid groups of drunk menGroups of menMen entirelyGrip your pepper spray as you walk past the liquor storeAnd one...
Too Much of a Woman

Too Much of a Woman

Like so many teenage girls, I have an undying love for Taylor Swift and her music. She is a poet who touches our lives with the music she writes. As a little girl, I would sit and listen to her...
Reality

Reality

The twist, the turnsMake my mind burnUnknown historyOnce a mysteryI’ve come to see and learn I’m Black, I’m proudI’ll scream it loudI’m Black, I’m proudShould always be allowed Black and WhiteOh,...
I Dream Lana Del Rey Lyrics

I Dream Lana Del Rey Lyrics

If I were to walk down two blocks and turn right, I would see his house. The concept of passing by and seeing The Boy With the Blue Walls terrifies me. I avoid Napoleon Avenue at all costs. My...