ABSTRACT

These are the voices of two teenage researchers in our female-led community research project. This is an introduction piece used during our local presentation to the focus group participants, families, educators, mothers and daughters, and people who had donated money or volunteered time to our research. This presentation carried out one of our primary goals: to bring research done about our community back to our community. Other goals included:

• To be phenomenal, confident women willing to learn and teach • To learn how to do our own research • To teach academics that community groups and young women can

do our research and that our research methods can be more culturally appropriate and dynamic

• Increase mother/daughter communication • Present our findings at the “New Girl Order” International Confer-

ence in London.