No celebrities, makeovers, or articles on how to get a guy. The target audience is girls from ages twelve up, and it reflects the wide gap in interests that such an age range suggests. There are critiques of society s obsession with weight and lots of reader input about eating disorders. Animal rights are covered. Lesbianism is mentioned.
Readers send in reviews of books, music, and Web pages.
Almost every article is written by teens, but the sidebars with the background information, the names of organizations to contact, the books to read, and often some editorial comments come from adults. If that does happen, we will have no one to blame but ourselves. There has been great progress through this country s civil rights movements . . . . If everyone who reads Teen Voices joins the movement for civil rights against all discrimination we will be even closer to social and economic justice. As an adult and a parent I was glad to see the broader viewpoints, but I wondered if they might not seem too preachy to a young person.