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Girls like me have raised presidents. We've raised messiahs and musicians, writers, and settlers. Girls like me won't compromise and we won't fail. – Allison Crews

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Call for Submissions

Call for Submissions: Your teen mom stories. After doing buckets of research and finding absolutely no resource list in my … More

Choice, Empower, High School, No Shame, Pregnancy, Queer, teen moms, teen parents, teenage moms, Young Parents

A Conversation with the Awesome Jendella Benson

“WHEN IT COMES TO TEEN MOMS THERE’S THIS NARRATIVE AND PEOPLE JUST KEEP REPEATING IT OVER AND OVER AGAIN WITHOUT … More

Choice, Empower, No Shame, Pregnancy, teen parents, teenage moms

“I’d Throw Her Down the Stairs” and Other Wonderful Things People Say to Teen Parents.

My best friend just became a grandma at the age of 38. I was a mom at eighteen and also … More

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My Teen *Birth* Mother Story: An Adoption Story

We’ve become a family. A family of choice, as his momma often says.

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Christian School Bans Pregnant Teen from Graduation Ceremony

This pro life (anti choice) school teaches that abortion is a sin, but when a straight A teenager and president of … More

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When I Was Garbage

Allison Crews was a fierce activist, advocate, and queer teen mama. She passed away in June of 2005 at the age of … More

Allison Crews, Choice, High School, Pregnancy

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