Rowan Blanchard played the character of Riley Matthews on Girl Meets World, a Disney Channel show that acted as a sequel to the ‘90s classic Boy Meets World. While that role is what she is most well-known for, it is her youth activism and essays on intersectional feminism that have put her over the edge. At just thirteen years old, the actress spoke at the UN Women US National Annual Conference about gender equality. Also, in January of 2015, she addressed a crowd of 75,000 people at the Women’s March in Los Angeles. Rowan said, “I believe in the effable power of community. If women, if queer people, if people of color have survived this long in a world that refuses to represent them, that must amount to a force much greater than one man with nothing more to invest in but his ego.”
“People used to always talk down to me, like, ‘Oh, you’re so young,’ but now I recognize that my age is an advantage; there’s a lot more I can do.”
—Rowan Blanchard
This excerpt is from The Book of Awesome Girls by Becca Anderson which is available now through Amazon and Mango Media.
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