Close your eyes & take this pop quiz: What does a woman CEO look like? A female banker? A girl at your school in AP calculus? A biotech scientist shopping at the mall? Did that last one throw you? In a quick snap we’ve pre-set our brains to media myths & formulas, pre-judging with pop culture images & icons. We're proud to facilitate three workshops on … [Read more...]
For the record, I'd still rather kids be playing outside finding their own world of cultural diversity among play pals, but since this blog's about positive media uses, this indeed qualifies as one of them! Panwapa. Even the name sounds global and cool... It’s got a world beat edge to it and an upbeat tonality that rolls off the tongue with kid-friendly energy. As a … [Read more...]
Sometimes you just “click” with a “person, place or thing” that rocks your world in an ‘aha moment’ of “Where have you been all my life?” Such is the case with Shaping Youth meeting up with QuantumShiftTV which holds the promise and vision of so many things we’re trying to achieve here with our fledgling nonprofit. As … [Read more...]
Growing up in Hawaii hawking ‘huli-huli chicken’ and “King’s Hawaiian bakery sweetbread” as school fundraisers made me realize that all those yummy smells wafting through the hallways would never fly these days. Candy bars and hot malasadas (those puffy fried fat bombs like a sugar-dipped doughnut) were shamelessly hustled island-wide knowing … [Read more...]
“Here it comes” alright. I smell another Cannes win here for the Dove team’s short film/viral video efforts. “Onslaught,” a Dove film, conveys the pulsating “in your face” rapid-fire bombardment of beauty cues and media sexualization sent every nanosecond to little kids. Onslaught may do for girls what the “Evolution” … [Read more...]
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