Despite the critique that girl power discourses in development, and approaches to gender and development more broadly, depoliticize the issue of gender inequality (for example, Eyben, 2010: 55; Switzer, 2013: 347; Calkin, 2015c: 302; Koffman et al, 2015: 157; Roberts, 2015: 222), I found that Girl Up club members were involved in many different forms of activism, some of them overtly political.1 As discussed in Chapter 2 of this book, girls’ participation in politics has frequently been overlooked, partly because they are excluded from formal political structures. However, a small number of scholars have begun to theorize girls’ activism by documenting the many forms of informal feminist politics in which they engage, including online activism, standing up to domineering males and mentoring one another (Taft, 2014: 263).