About Logan Logan Green is the Center on Gender Justice & Opportunity’s inaugural Youth Storyteller in Residence. She is a writer, activist, and actress from Hattiesburg, Mississippi. In 2021, she won the National Speech and Debate competition in the Original Spoken Word category for her poem “Reclaiming Girlhood,” which she wrote after reading our Girlhood
We were honored to be named as a Champion of Gender Equity by Archewell Foundation, founded by Prince Harry & Meghan, The Duke and Duchess of Sussex. The announcement reads: “Under the leadership of Rebecca Epstein, the Center on Poverty and Inequality’s Initiative on Gender Justice & Opportunity develops innovative policy solutions and conducts groundbreaking
Now a junior, Green said she wrote “Reclaiming Girlhood” to draw attention to the “adultification” of Black girls — the treatment of young girls as if they are older. The piece was inspired by a report from Georgetown Law Center on Poverty and Inequality, “Girlhood Interrupted: The Erasure of Black Girls’ Childhood,” and from her
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Article by Thalia González published in the SMU Law Review Forum.
Report by Thalia González published in Stanford Law Review
Segment aired on WPFW FM (DC) on the adultification of Black girls, May 2021
“Examining patterns of police treatment towards Black youth highlights a prominent issue: the adultification bias, which is the phenomenon where adults perceive Black youth as being older than they actually are. When the adultification bias was examined, one study found that Black girls as young as five years old were perceived as being less needing
“Because of layers of gendered racism, adults tend to view Black girls as more threatening, more aggressive, more mature and less innocent than white girls of the same age, robbing Black girls of the freedom to be children, according to a 2017 report by the Georgetown Law Center on Poverty and Inequality. The report found