Fourteen year old, Rowan Blanchard is known as Riley Matthews from Girl Meets World, the spin-off of Boy Meets World, a popular hit TV show in the 90’s. Although everyone sees her as the adorable, quirky, adolescent on Girl Meets World, there’s so much more about her no one knows about. Rowan Blanchard was born on October 14, 2001 in Los Angeles, California and is an outspoken young lady who thrives to change the world each and every day. Her two parents, Elizabeth and Mark Blanchard, are very supporting towards Rowan with whatever future she has planned. Rowan also has two younger siblings that love her very much, Carmen and Shane, and let’s also not forget about her dog, Winston. Her paternal grandfather was an immigrant from the Middle East. He had Lebanese, Moroccan, Armenian, and Syrian ancestry, whilst her
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Her voice is so loud that it’s heard all over the world, meaning she speaks about what she feels needs to be heard. She’s a feminist and activist, she has talked about equality and problems that have been getting pushed aside for a while now. Rowan Blanchard has spoken about catcalling, female friendships, and feminism. She is also a LGBTQ [Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Queer] representative and fun fact, she is queer (labelless) herself. Taking part of world-wide problems helps pour knowledge into her young and older fans. Here’s an example of part of a speech she wrote talking about gender inequality in youth: “But the most disheartening comments came from girls who do not feel safe in their own school because of unwanted touching or inappropriate attention. How can you expect girls to aspire to anything when 75% of us from the ages of eleven to twenty-one year olds say daily sexism impacts our future goals and self-confidence? That’s three out of four on a daily basis. I think this is unacceptable and should be unacceptable to both genders.”
Her voice is so loud that it’s heard all over the world, meaning she speaks about what she feels needs to be heard. She’s a feminist and activist, she has talked about equality and problems that have been getting pushed aside for a while now. Rowan Blanchard has spoken about catcalling, female friendships, and feminism. She is also a LGBTQ [Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Queer] representative and fun fact, she is queer (labelless) herself. Taking part of world-wide problems helps pour knowledge into her young and older fans. Here’s an example of part of a speech she wrote talking about gender inequality in youth: “But the most disheartening comments came from girls who do not feel safe in their own school because of unwanted touching or inappropriate attention. How can you expect girls to aspire to anything when 75% of us from the ages of eleven to twenty-one year olds say daily sexism impacts our future goals and self-confidence? That’s three out of four on a daily basis. I think this is unacceptable and should be unacceptable to both genders.”