www.girlpower.com first launched in ye olden days of the internets (1995!) as a site for the award-winning book by Hillary Carlip, Girl Power: Young Women Speak Out. It featured excerpts from the book, as well as a message board where tens of thousands of girls of all types, temperaments, and truths met up to express their deepest thoughts, feelings, and dreams. It was chosen by Seventeen magazine as “one of the coolest sites for girls.”
That was then… Today girlpower.com features fresh, girl-centric recommendations of killer blogs/websites, hot videos, DIY crafts, and more. At its heart, the mission remains the same: to celebrate female creativity and self-expression in a way that’s simultaneously entertaining and empowering.
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Hillary Carlip is an award-winning, best-selling author of four books: A la Cart: The Secret Lives of Grocery Shoppers, Queen of the Oddballs: And Other True Stories from a Life Unaccording to Plan, Zine Scene, and Girl Power: Young Women Speak Out.All of her work has garnered major press, including Hillary appearing on Oprah when the entire episode was devoted to her first book, Girl Power. As a visual artist, Hillary has designed and produced websites for major stars (including Jennifer Aniston, filmmakers, authors, musicians, companies, and more, and continues to break ground with her web production and design company Fly HC Multimedia. She has shown and sold her found-object assemblages nationwide, and is a performance artist who juggled professionaly on the New York stage. She appeared on Ellen, where she taught Ellen Degeneres how to eat fire (complete with Liza Minnelli running onstage -- unplanned -- with a fire extinguisher!) |
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