Peer Writing Groups

At VOX, teens organize activities and projects we feel will best meet our needs and interests. For years, some VOXers have gathered in smaller groups to use writing, talking and art to express ourselves around issues of gender identity. Each group has youth facilitators and adult volunteers to set our own agenda of writing and community action activities.

Epiphany Girls Group
This group brings together young women from diverse backgrounds to discuss the problems we face and support each other. Using writing as a creative outlet we address issues such as sexual assault and self esteem. For the past two years girls group have taken on the enormous task of informing the public about the very real threat of sexual assault, by rallying and sending letters to administration in both the school system and groups that serve young people. Girls group strives to connect young women to each other and to the world.

VOX Girls Group Outreach
This year, VOX brought the Girls Writing Group to our peers at Angela’s House in a Saturday morning collaborative workshop, writing and having fun.  Our goal was to express ourselves through writing and art. What resulted, in part, are powerful stories and portrait photos, collected in the April 2007 edition of VOX and four ‘zines. What you can’t see in these pages are the conversations about self-esteem, love, relationships and power. Our goal is to help each girl reach a personal epiphany, feeling better about herself and having fun with peers in the process.