Girl Be Heard Brings Reporting to Life at Gender Lens Conference

As a special performance during the Gender Lens Conference dinner program, Girl Be Heard, a youth group that creates original performances on social justice issues, based their work on gender-related Pulitzer Center reporting.

Please note that their performance was inspired by the reporting and is not meant to reflect a literal translation of it. Creative interpretation was used in the process and the performances do not necessarily reflect factual representations of the original reporting.

What A Blessing

Based on Ben Taub’s documentation of the journey of teenage girl’s route to Europe amidst trafficking, this peformance tells her story through spoken word.

Legacy of War

Legacy of War takes the audience on a journey through Paula Bronstein's career documenting war widows in Afghanistan.

Dance and Fall

Through song and spoken word, Girl Be Heard performs student fellow Julia Boccagno’s stories on the transgender experience in Thailand.

Becoming A Man & I Take It

Becoming a Man and I Take It are based on Cassandra Vinograd’s reporting in South Sudan on children being forced to become soldiers.

I Am A Seed

Girl Be Heard uses song to tell the story of widowhood around the world, based on Amy Toensing's photography.