Peer Writing Groups

At VOX, we organize activities and projects to meet the needs and interests of fellow teens. For years, VOXers have gathered in smaller groups to use writing, talking and art to express ourselves around issues like gender identity. Each group has youth facilitators and adult volunteers who create agendas that include writing and community action activities.

Epiphany Girls Group
This group brings together young women from diverse backgrounds to discuss the problems we face and provide each other support. Using writing as a creative outlet, we address issues such as sexual assault and self esteem. In previous years, Girls Group has 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
In the past, 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, were 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 we shared 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.

This year, we have expanded our Girls Group Outreach to include Girls Group Bring a Friend Nights. These are monthly events where girls from the community come and enjoy an evening dedicated to finding ourselves through discussing issues that affect us. We journal, play games and have lots of fun. The goal of these nights is to provide girls a casual opportunity to reach a better understanding of each other without necessarily commiting to long-term participation in programming. Come check it out!