Dear AoIRistas: I am writing to let you know about Hey Girl Global, an international network of teachers, students and creatives, interested in tracking the intersections of urban, media and girl/women’s cultures. HGG is launching two initiatives and would love your input. *HEY GIRL GLOBAL MAGAZINE* The first is Girl Global Magazine, an online publication slated to launch Fall 2016. *Right now, we're looking for writers, editors, photographers, videographers, graphic designers, translators, and social media/outreach people, and we'd love for as many of you to be involved as possible.* If you could circulate our Call for Creatives among your networks, we’d be hella grateful <https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6NaxivVFTkSSTRLVFotVVZhTVk/view>. That link will take you to a PDF you can feel free to print or forward. *HEY GIRL GLOBAL CONFERENCE COVERAGE* Our other initiative is a concerted effort to live blog conferences of interest to our membership. OF COURSE we will be covering FemTechNet! Conference coverage will appear on our social channels beginning today. Coming up: - Julianne McShane –– an undergraduate student at New York University with interests in journalism, human rights, and women’s studies –– is tweeting/blogging from Twitter/Medium (and updating the other platforms as well) from the International Girls Studies Research Conference <http://girls-studies.org/> this weekend in Norwich, England. - Dr. Terri Senft –– the founder of the HGG network and the International Selfies Research Network, a professor in the Global Liberal Studies Program at New York University, and a researcher of gender, race, and social media –– will be attending and covering The Black Girl Movement Conference: Picturing Black Girlhood <http://iraas.columbia.edu/Event/black-girl-movement-conference-schedule> at Columbia University in New York on Thursday, April 7th. - Marta Delatt –– a PhD student at the University of Hull –– will be attending and covering signal/noise: A FemTechNet Conference on Feminist Pedagogy, Technology, Transdisciplinarity <http://femtechnet.org/docc/ftn-docc-2016-conference/> from Friday, April 8 — Sunday, the 10th at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. ______________________________________________ Interested in getting involved? We’d love to have you. Drop us a line at heygirlglobal@gmail.com Visit our website, heygirlglobal.com, or come hang out on our @HeyGirlGlobal Facebook page to learn more. And of course, you can always hit me up with questions. I swear I am not too much of a weirdo. Finally, if you are interested in our “vision thing” you are welcome to read more about The Hey Girl Network mission <https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6NaxivVFTkScmRSSlJIMDFpbTQ/view> . THANKS FOR READING THIS!! Terri Senft P.S. Places you can go right now to learn more/get involved with HGG HGG on Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/groups/heygirlglobal/> HGG on Instagram <https://www.instagram.com/heygirl_global/> HGG on Twitter <https://twitter.com/heygirlglobal> HGG on Medium <https://medium.com/@heygirlglobal> HGG on Tumblr <http://heygirlblog.tumblr.com/> HGG on LinkedIn <https://www.linkedin.com/groups/7050633> -- <http://goog_689013053> <http://goog_689013053> Dr. Theresa M. Senft Global Liberal Studies Program School of Arts & Sciences New York University 726 Broadway NY NY 10003 home: *www.terrisenft.net <http://goog_689013053>* (needs a serious updating) facebook: www.facebook.com/theresa.senft twitter: @terrisenft