the urban girl scouts is founded IN the radical concept that when girls get together wonderfully important, powerful and enlightening things happen.

The Urban Girl Scouts Oath:
I promise to be a kind friend,
a helpful neighbor, 
and a creative problem solver at all times.
I promise to make positive choices
and help those who need it.
I am a proud, strong, smart girl.
I am an Urban Girl scout. 
The Urban Girl Scouts Song:
The Urban Girl Scouts, the Urban Girl Scouts
We are strong, we are kind
The Urban Girl Scouts
We help our city out,
We are heard because we shout
We are smart, we are girls
The Urban Girl Scouts!

overview​:

  • UGS is a sacred space for young girls to learn that they are vital parts of their community and world.
  • Through consciousness raising, women's history learning, service projects and discussions about what it feels like to be a girl in this world members of Urban Girl Scouts start to see themselves as smart, capable, powerful, magical feminists who will make the world better just by being themselves in it.
  • Meetings bring girls together in a supportive, inclusive and accepting space. This is where young girls learn to trust, support and help each other in a world that often encourages social aggression and exclusion among girls.
  • Meetings include bonding rituals, space to voice personal stories, thoughts and ideas, projects, creative opportunities, learning and planning for service oriented action. 

Meeting logistics:

  • UGS meets every 2 weeks for two hours with assignments and action suggestions in between
  • Troop 1 meets every other Saturday 10:00am - 12:00pm
  • Troop 2 meets every other week on an after school day. Day for Fall 2017 TBD.
  • There is a maximum of 10 girls in each troop with one troop leader and one assistant leader.
  • Membership fee is $200 per semester. This includes uniform (plus replacements), badges, snacks and all materials.
  • Badges: Badges are earned at the end of a mini unit or theme of study. Badges are designed and handmade by troop leaders and vary between troops. They represent the passing of the power of creation between women and girls.
  • Uniform: The Urban Girl Scouts wear red to evoke the radical New York feminist group of the late 1960s/early 1970s The Redstockings of the Women's Liberation Movement. The Redstockings believed that in order for women's equality to become a reality the world in general, and the patriarchy in particular, needed to change, not that women themselves had to change. The Redstockings in turn got their name inspiration from the term 'bluestockings,' which was a disparaging term used to describe feminist intellectuals in earlier centuries.
  • The Urban Girl Scouts also feel that the color red represents life force, strength, power and, of course, radical leftist thought. 

pictures from semesters past: