Growing up too soon

Who’s Your Fave Fictional Male Rodel Model & Why?

November 17, 2009 by Amy Jussel 6 Comments

Update June 14, 2014 With Father's Day approaching I thought I'd add Common Sense Media's "Favorite Film Fathers" just for fun...and reprise my post about "Media's Portrayal of Father Figures On TV" ......But truth be told, I'm most excited that HUGE gains are coming with excellent books and films uncorking important conversations about healthy masculinity, including The … [Read more...]

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Final 48 Hours! Vote Girl Child Network’s Betty Makoni CNN Hero ’09!

November 17, 2009 by Amy Jussel 12 Comments

Nov. 17, 2009 Last week, when the Guardian reported, “Tens of thousands of children have been sexually abused in Zimbabwe in a growing epidemic that has shocked human rights activists,” I blinked back my tears of outrage, knowing full well that this is the battle Betty Makoni has been fighting for an entire DECADE with The Girl Child Network. Betty is a Top Ten CNN Hero of … [Read more...]

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The Laramie Project: Using Media to Teach Tolerance 10 Years Later

November 13, 2009 by Amy Jussel 6 Comments

Nov. 13, 2009 It’s fitting that The Laramie Project premiers locally tonight in San Mateo on Friday the 13th, as the theater production resurrects a haunting melancholy on the ‘unlucky’ and fateful day young Matthew Shepard was kidnapped, severely beaten and left to die suffering for six days tied to a fence on the outskirts of Laramie, Wyoming. Reason for the hate crime? He … [Read more...]

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Gossip Girl November Sweeps Schtick Predictably Trashy

November 10, 2009 by Amy Jussel 12 Comments

Nov. 10, 2009 No, I didn’t watch the heavily promoted Gossip Girl ‘threesome’ shock schlock last night that sent the Parents Television Council rightfully into a tizzy, but frankly I didn’t need to, as the whole ‘provocative’ ploy is summed in two words, “sweeps week.” The vapid values trotted out in the ‘skankwear’ with stilettos crowd is pretty par for the course on the … [Read more...]

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SexEd Abstracts Due For SexTech Summit: Not Your Mother’s Media

November 9, 2009 by Amy Jussel 6 Comments

Nov. 8, 2009 One of our SexTech.org ‘top ten’ posts continues to be the Top Ten Teen SexEd videos created by students, for students in an effort to improve the lousy coverage of an inevitably touchy subject in schools. If you're unfamiliar with Isis-Inc.org (Internet Sexuality Information Services) they're an amazing health advocacy crew that epitomizes the concept of Shaping … [Read more...]