Youth Circulations Takes on the NYT

Check out the latest blogpost from Youth Circulations. It’s an engaging read. The authors dissect the Feb. 2015 report from the NYT Magazine on “child brides” in Guatemala. 

Bloggers Briana Nichols and Lisette Farias, PhD students working in Guatemala, question the choices made by the photojournalist in presenting “the other” as well as the “discursive framing” of the piece. They argue in favor of viewing the piece critically.

The post concludes:

Conversations about “child brides” need to go beyond the stereotype of “poor and immature” girls/women if we really want to enable young women to access the resources and occupational possibilities that they need and want. Representations such as Sinclair’s are problematic not just for what they supposedly expose, but for what they naturalize and hide. 

-KitJ