About jGirls+ Magazine
Our Mission
jGirls+ Magazine is a global community for Jewish female and nonbinary teens to voice their realities, engage with new ideas, and lift each other up as they lead social change.
Our Work
jGirls+ Magazine is an innovative, online community and magazine written by and for self-identifying Jewish girls, young women, and nonbinary teens ages 13-19 across all backgrounds. This platform enables teens to share their voices with the world and each other, and the space to hone communication skills, explore identities, talk across differences, and engage with a wide circle of peers on their own terms. jGirls+ creates long-term change and addresses underlying causes of inequity by boosting the capabilities, self-image, and status of young Jewish feminists. In this way, we cultivate the next generation of empowered, committed Jewish feminist community and institutional leaders.
We are a community diverse in background, perspective, Jewish identification, sexual orientation, gender expression and identity, race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, ability, and interests.
We publish teen-created content multiple times a week. All content is created by self-identifying Jewish female and nonbinary teens ages 13-19. We accept creative content on all subjects and in many formats (fiction, personal essays, opinion pieces, poetry, art, photography, video, and music). We are committed to amplifying and elevating historically marginalized voices. We encourage discussion across both shared and different experiences, and across multiple perspectives.
Paying artists, female-identified and nonbinary people, and young people for their labor—including creative, Jewish, and feminist labor—is among our organization’s core values, and we are proud to pay all published contributors.
Teen Staff & Feminist Leadership Training Program
Our teen staff editors curate teen-created content, published several times a week, and our teen staff photographers shape the site’s aesthetic. Teen-created content, published several times a week, is curated by our editorial board of sixteen Jewish teens, and the site’s aesthetic is shaped by our team of teen staff photographers. These teen staff members use their leadership positions to create spaces for and amplify the voices of their peers.
The jGirls+ curriculum includes training in leadership, editing, and identity. Teens then apply these skills in hand-on experiences as editors and photographers. In these roles, they help shape the scope and aesthetic of the magazine, engage in collaborative decision-making, exercise voice and agency, foster pluralistic dialogue, empower their peers, amplify a range of voices, navigate difference, and access opportunities to publish and speak publicly more broadly.
In keeping with our values, teen staff members receive a stipend for their work.
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