The student news site of St. Louis Park High School

The Echo

The student news site of St. Louis Park High School

The Echo

The student news site of St. Louis Park High School

The Echo

Graphic by John Hunter

Robbed of representation

Alicia Mainjeni, Entertainment Editor February 27, 2024

Social media is surging in conversation regarding the normalization of exclusionary trends. One hotspot in particular is the idea of womanhood and what it “should” look like. A viral Tiktok about celebrating...

Exploitation is not empowerment

Exploitation is not empowerment

Sarah Kluckhohn May 22, 2023

In recent years the idea of the “male gaze” in pop culture has been whittled down to a chick-lit buzzword. Search the phrase on TikTok and you’ll be met with an endless flood of videos using the...

Learning to fight back

Maria Perez Barriga and Samiya Mohamed February 19, 2019

Seeing the number of stories about violence and assault increase, senior Lindsey Epstein said the need for students to be well-versed in self-defense has become more important than ever.

Barriers broken in midterm election

Barriers broken in midterm election

Maddie Schutte November 7, 2018

The Democratic takeover of the House of Representatives, along with several other Democratic victories across the country, gave platforms to minorities silenced by the 2016 presidential election. It...

Sophomore Elizabeth Orton engages in Intersectional Feminism Club’s first meeting of the year. Members discussed their goals for the year.

Intersectional Feminism Club changes name

Isabel Kjaer October 22, 2018

According to co-president junior Allison Feller, Intersectional Feminism Club’s name needed an update in order to encompass a larger group of people. “We wanted to attract more different types of...

Juniors Maddie Lind and Ally Feller share what they have planned for Feminism club this year. Their first meeting took place 8 a.m. Sept. 20 in B320 classroom.

Feminism Club anticipates new focus

Isabel Kjaer September 24, 2018

As co-president of Feminism Club junior Allison Feller looks to the upcoming year, she said there are many issues that are often overlooked that can be discussed with peers. “I feel like there’s...

The Minnesota state capitol located in St. Paul is lit by the sun April 16. Here is where bills to protect indigenous women will be drafted.

Governor’s task force requested to end violence

Hanna Schechter April 18, 2018

After listening to a study on BBC about missing indigenous women, and Savanna Greywind’s abduction and murder in North Dakota, representative Mary Kunesh-Podein of the Minnesota legislature said she...

Womens sports are never represented like mens

Women’s sports are never represented like mens

Amaia Barajas April 15, 2018

Millions of people tune in every year to the men’s NCAA March Madness tournaments, even though there is a equally exciting and well played women's tournament going on. We mainly hear about the men’s...

Eva Goldfarb and her mother Elena Temple pose in front of display at the Womens Convention on October 27, 2017

Junior attends Women’s Convention

Avia Kaner-Roth December 7, 2017

When junior Eva Goldfarb first heard the speakers lined up for the Women’s Convention, she said she saw a chance to attend and learn from them. “Once I heard the lineup of who was going to be speaking,...

Load More Stories
Activate Search
women