IF YOU GO
What: Fourth annual Kidz Expo, presented by the Chattanooga Times Free Press When: 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday. Where: Chattanooga Convention Center, 1100 Carter St. Tickets: $7 for one; $25 for family four-pack, available at timesfreepressevents.com or at the door. Information: timesfreepress events.com/kidzexpo/2015
Gender and sexual equality. Female activism. The male/female wage gap. The value of education for girls. The massacre of Christian students in Kenya.
Doesn’t seem like the usual list of tweets on the Twitter feed of a 13-year-old. But Rowan Blanchard doesn’t qualify as your normal 13-year-old.
The star of the Disney Channel’s “Girl Meets World” and the featured guest Saturday at Kidz Expo, Rowan says she refuses to hang idly by and think about nothing but boys, makeup, selfies and what to do over the weekend.
“I am not the kind of person who sits on the sidelines,” she says. “If I see something that I disagree with or I could bring attention to, I am not just going to ignore it. We all live in this world and just sitting there and saying that, because these things don’t include you, they don’t matter is a very close-minded way of thinking.”