Unsung Modern Day Heroines

It seems that blogging has become the epitome of adolescent culture and their speaking up! Fortunately, blogging facilitates interaction with other users, personal expression which cultivates a learning space shaping online identity among users. This is best exemplified when the author states, “adolescent girls' blogs provide one entry point for examining how the activities of girls are renegotiating boundaries” (Kearney, 161). Conversations through mediums like Facebook chat, IMing and of course blogging as brought a personal conversation to an exchange of ideas on national issues. In the text when girls were talking about HIV and AIDS you can see how much of these issues really concern young women. “Gender violence” is something made to life outside of a textbook (even though it kind of was lol) and into their daily lives. African teens made it their objective to make others aware of their experience and sufferings so that others may learn that this topic is still a major concern because of its common misconceptions. I applaud these young women for using technology to spread their personal experiences to bring about awareness. Even though blogging can create an online voice without having to view the actual viewers, it takes tremendous effort to have to allow one -self to be vulnerable and honest. You can sense the drive that these adolescents have to make a difference and to create a change. This often makes me confirm my own thoughts about how adults usually undermine adolescents. While they are at a transitional stage in their life, their minds are developed far more than what they’re given credit for and I think this exemplifies how adolescents, even globally have opinions and feelings about today’s controversies. It’s still unfortunate that this is still a current issue in this part of the world, however if awareness is the start then our generation of young women are off to a great start. They are like unsung heroines; through their daily actions they lead and it’s amazing to see how subtle a difference one person’s experience can make to others. It really humanizes or puts a face to current issue.