America the Beautiful

Healthy Youth Media Act Pt 2: Can Change Be Legislated? (interview)

July 21, 2010 by Amy Jussel 9 Comments

July 21, 2010 Can you hear the drumbeat, Hollywood? It’s getting louder. Girl advocates like Jessica Lawrence head to Capitol Hill to discuss H.R. 4925 tomorrow to share firsthand data about how … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Advertising, Branding & Consumerism, Consumerism, Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Misogyny & Racism, Nutrition & Wellness, Sexualization & Body Image, Shaping Youth, Stereotypes & Diversity Tagged With: alcopops, All Things Girl, America the Beautiful, American Apparel, APA, APA Task force, appearance cues, Be the voice for girls, beauty myth, beyonce, boy toys, boys into monsters, Bratz, Capitol Hill, consumer advocacy, corporate pedophilia, dereon divas, dieting, eating-disorders, fashion-beauty-industry-expectations, FCC, FTC, Geena Davis Institute, Gender, gender equity, girl scouts, Girl Scouts of San Gorgonio Council, girls inc., GLI, GSA, GSUSA, H.R. 4925, harm of early sexualization, Healthy Media Youth Act, HGHW, hottie factor, HR4925, Huge, Jessica Lawrence, Lyn Mikel-Brown, meat marketing, media-literacy, Melissa Wardy, NCWO, obectification, Oct 22, Packaging-Boyhood, Packaging-Girlhood, parenting girls, PigTail Pals, Pink Think, plastic surgery, Pop culture impact on kids, preteens, raising girls, redefining girly, self-worth, Sesame Streetwalkers, sexism, sexist ads, Sexualization, Shelley Moore Capito, Single Ladies, So Sexy So Soon, SPARK! summit, sparksummit, support healthy media images for girls, surviving media morass, Tammy Baldwin, Tinkerbell, Wisconsin, Youth-advocacy

Stars & Stripes Celebrations For America the Beautiful

July 4, 2010 by Amy Jussel 2 Comments

July 3, 2010 With the TEDxOilspill recap of innovative solutions airing on pbs last night (complete with faux BPGlobalPR masked man Leroy Stick) Oil, and WorldWildlife Fund Free e-cards reminding that … [Read more...]

Filed Under: EcoKids-Environment, Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Interactive Games, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Mobile Media, Apps & Gaming, Shaping Youth Tagged With: America the Beautiful, Amy-Jussel, Bieber on broadway, eco, ecosystems, education, Elf Island marine life gulf, Good Quest, Green-Celebrations, Independence Day, July4th-Green, marine life, marine mammals, mobile apps, Need to Know, patriotic, PBS Education Network, red white and blue, Sea Turtles, Shark Quest, Stars and Stripes, TEDxOilSpill, US Presidents, Wild Aid, WWF, Xeko

“About Face” Body Image Benefit: America the Beautiful Movie

May 15, 2009 by Amy Jussel 4 Comments

May 15, 2009 He’s baaaaaaaaaack! ‘Tell it like it is’ director Darryl Roberts of America The Beautiful is wrapping his last personal appearance on his U.S. screening tour to benefit two worthy Bay … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Advertising, Branding & Consumerism, Consumerism, Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Nutrition & Wellness, People Shaping Youth, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Sexualization & Body Image, Shaping Youth Tagged With: About-Face, America the Beautiful, America the Beautiful documentary, America the Beautiful movie, Amy-Jussel, ATB, Beyond Hunger, Body Blitz, Childhood Matters, Darryl Roberts, Dr.-Robyn-Silverman, eating-disorders, Eve Ensler, feminist, Feministing, femme, fundraising, Gerren Taylor, girls, girls self esteem, girls-self-worth, indie films, NAED, objectification, Positive Body Image, Reign-of-the-Girl-Child, Screen a movie make a difference, summer swimsuit shopping, teen-angst, thinspiration, YWCA

Hope is On the Horizon When Movements Go Mainstream

April 25, 2009 by Amy Jussel 8 Comments

April 25, 2009 I've used 'follow the money' as my rebel yell for 'why things are the way they are' and can usually sniff out the trail like a canine customs patrol. So it thrills me when the path … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Advertising, Branding & Consumerism, Consumerism, EcoKids-Environment, Emerging trends & STEM, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Shaping Youth Tagged With: Ad Age, America the Beautiful, Change is Possible, Consuming kids, corporations, datamonitor, Disneynature Earth, do I need this?, e-waste, eco-friendly, environmental, green, green cleaners, green defies economic downturn, green IT, green movement, Green revolution, green schools, green works, Green-Teens, Huggies pure and natural, Kids, mainstream, mindfulness, MySpace/Our Planet, natural, Scott paper towels, seventh generation, show me the money, WalMart, worldchanging, youth

Shaping Youth’s Body Image Expert Dr. Robyn Silverman on Dove

November 13, 2008 by Amy Jussel 16 Comments

What would you say real beauty is all about? How would you explain it to your daughter, your niece, your student, or other girls you love? Joining Dove Self Esteem Ambassador, Jessica Weiner and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Advertising, Branding & Consumerism, Consumerism, Growing up too soon, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Nutrition & Wellness, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Product Placement, Sexualization & Body Image, Shaping Youth Tagged With: 7 Tips to Cope with Your Child's Need to be "Perfect" in a Win-at-All Costs World, Adonis-Complex, America the Beautiful, Amy-Jussel, appearance cues, Axe, Beauty, buffed boy, Cheerleading, defining beauty, Dove Evolution, Dove Onslaught, Dove Self Esteen Fund, Dr.-Robyn-Silverman, Fair and Lovely, Fitting in While Standing Out, girls, gymnastics, Kids, Parenting Tips, preteens, Rye Clifton, self-image, True Colors, Unilever

Sexed Up M&Ms Sell Fashionably Decadent Premium Sleaze

September 26, 2008 by Amy Jussel 8 Comments

Mars candies have reached a new low... Anthropomorphizing cartoon critters is one thing, giving chocolate candy classics the Jessica Rabbit treatment is another. Do we REALLY need more … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Advertising, Branding & Consumerism, Consumerism, Damaging Drek, Growing up too soon, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Product Placement, Sexualization & Body Image, Shaping Youth, Stereotypes & Diversity, Vapid Values, Viral & Buzz Media Tagged With: America the Beautiful, Beauty at any cost, body ideals, Celebrity worship, Dove Onslaught, Eva Longoria, fashion models, Fashionistas, feminism, Feministing, Geena Davis Institute, Gender Portrayal, girls, Killing Us Softly, M&Ms, M&Ms Premium Chocolate, M&Ms Triple Chocolate Ads, MMs.com, Packaging-Girlhood, Pop culture impact on kids, Pornification, sex in media, Sexualization, sexy so soon, Tasteless Ads, teen self worth, thin, YWCA

America the Beautiful: An “R” Rated Movie You WANT Kids To See

September 3, 2008 by Amy Jussel 23 Comments

Teens and tweens have heard more raw verbiage on school grounds in any given day than Eve Ensler's little snippet in America the Beautiful that garnered the documentary an ‘R’ rating. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Advertising, Branding & Consumerism, Growing up too soon, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Nutrition & Wellness, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Sexualization & Body Image, Shaping Youth, Viral & Buzz Media Tagged With: access to media, America the Beautiful, America the Beautiful documentary, America the Beautiful movie, Amy-Jussel, BABIB, Beauty products, Bigger Stronger Faster, bleaching agents, body loathing, body shame, body-positive, boys, Cancer, Congressman Jim Ramstad, Cosmetics, Darryl Roberts, Dove, Eating Disorders Coalition, eating-disorders, EDC, EWG, Fast Food Nation, Gerren Taylor, girls in Fiji, HR1424, Indie film, Interview with Darryl Roberts, Jackson Katz, Jean Kilbourne, Julianne Moore, Kate Winslet, Killing Us Softly, NEDA, packaging boyhod, Packaging-Girlhood, preteens, pthalates, Reign-of-the-Girl-Child, Revlon, S558, self-esteem, self-worth, So Sexy So Soon, teen girls, Teens for Safe Cosmetics, Tough Guise, Toxic ingredients, tween girls, Tyra Banks

Shaping Youth Interviews ATB Director Darryl Roberts

August 29, 2008 by Amy Jussel 10 Comments

Last Friday I broke policy and posted America the Beautiful: “See it. Support it.” sight unseen! 48 hours ago I saw it; applauded it. 24 hours ago I started a ‘social media … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Advertising, Branding & Consumerism, Consumerism, Growing up too soon, Marketing Shaping Youth, Sexualization & Body Image, Shaping Youth Tagged With: adolescent body image, America the Beautiful, America the Beautiful documentary, ATB documentary, ATB movie, Beauty at any cost, breast augmentation, Childhood Matters, Darryl Roberts, dieting, Dr.-Robyn-Silverman, Eve Ensler, Facelifts, fat, Feel Good Girl, Is America Obsessed With Beauty, Kids, models, New-Moon-Girl-Media, plastic surgery, preteen-health, price of beauty, Rona-Renner, self-esteem, Sundance Kabuki, teens, thin, tweens, Ugly truth about beauty, weight obsession, YMCA, YWCA

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