The Ma’yan Research Training Intensive was initially created as research team designed as a collaboration between Ma’yan staff and Jewish teen girls, was created to explore the needs of self-identified Jewish teen girls. Download the document belowe to see the...
Your wait ends now! Introducing Webisode #3 of the Ma'yan RTI video Pretty Sexy Sassy: How Girls and the Media Consume One Another. This five and a half minute video examines marketing and corporate interests in popular media and how these...
This documentary short was created by Beth Cooper Benjamin Ed.D., Director of Research at Ma’yan, in collaboration with a group of teenage girls. The girls interviewed each other and their families about the experience of deciding what to wear for...
While we put the finishing touches on the full RTI Cohort 4 video, Pretty Sexy Sassy: How Girls and the Media Consume One Another, here's a bonus episode to keep you satisfied! We call it Sexist Microaggressions in School, and...
Recently, the 2012-13 Ma'yan Research Training Interns (RTIs) gathered to premiere their video documentary,Pretty Sexy Sassy: How Girls and the Media Consume One Another. The video examines media sexism and its impact on girls and young women, drawing on interviews...
The teenagers from our 2012 "That's Not Fair!" Political Theater apprenticeship made a zine, based on data from our research about community service. The 'zine asks the question: "How to get from 'guilt about class privilege' to 'world without oppression'...
It is the vision of a future of girls who are critically thinking, creative, confident and skilled in leadership that inspired us to create That’s Not Fair!: The Ma’yan Political Theater Apprenticeship (along with Jenny Romaine--a puppeteer, performer, Jewish culture...