Let Teen Girls Run the Government

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🗓️ 30 May 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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What would American democracy look like in the hands of teenage girls? That is the question at the center of "Girls State," a new Apple TV+ documentary and the nationwide civic leadership program that it's named after. As participants, high school students are competitively selected into an immersive experiment in which they must build a mock government from the ground up, complete with municipal roles, branches, a governor, and a Supreme Court. The film takes us inside Missouri Girls State 2022, where hundreds of girls from across the state gather at Lindenwood University to reimagine what it means to govern and devise a better democracy. As citizens of Girls State, these young women take on fierce elections and the toughest political questions of today, on top of the trials of teenage-hood. Amid political polarization and set on the heels of the leaked Dobbs draft decision, the girls of "Girls State" challenge themselves and each other as they build pathways to the future that they want and make plans for how they're going to run it. Joining us today to talk about their Girls State experience and their plans to change the world are some of the girls from the film, Cecilia Bartin, Nisha Murali, and Tochi Ihekona.

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0:00.0	From the ACLU, this is at Liberty.
0:05.3	I'm Kendall Seasmeyer, your host.
0:11.5	What would American democracy look like in the hands of teenage girls?
0:20.0	That is the question at the center of Girls State, a new Apple TV
0:23.8	Plus documentary, and the nationwide civic leadership program that it's named after. As participants,
0:31.2	high school students are competitively selected into an immersive experiment in which they must build a mock government from the ground up,
0:40.7	complete with the municipal roles, branches, a governor, and a Supreme Court. The film takes us
0:47.5	inside Missouri Girls State, 2022, where hundreds of girls from across the state gather at Lindenwood University to reimagine what it means to govern and devise a better democracy.
1:03.9	We all have in our own different ways grown up in a world where we've never seen a female president.
1:11.6	But how do we change that?
1:14.6	We step up.
1:16.6	This is where it all begin.
1:18.6	Standing in front of this crowd of future leaders, I can save that God can save the world.
1:23.6	Women will save America.
1:37.9	As citizens of girls state, these young women take on fierce elections and the toughest political questions of today.
1:41.4	On top of the trials of teenagehood, set on the heels of the leaked draft of the Dobbs
1:47.8	decision and amid political polarization, the girls of girls state challenge themselves and each other
1:54.5	as they build pathways to the future that they want and make plans for how they're going to run it.
2:01.1	Joining us today to talk about their girls' state experience and their plans to
2:05.1	change the world are some of the girls from the film, Cecilia Barton, Nisha Morelli, and Tochi
2:10.5	Eikona.
2:12.0	Sisi, Nisha, Tochi, welcome to at Liberty and thank you so much for joining me.
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