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Steamed About Sexualization? Healthy Media for Youth Act Now!

July 14, 2010 by Amy Jussel 22 Comments

July 12-16, 2010: Healthy Media for Youth week! Fed up with “boy chasin’ bed swappin’ lip-lickin’ hottie-hoochie booty-bouncin’ appearance-is-everything” cues comin’ at your girls? Yah, so are … [Read more...]

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Shaping Youth Honors Girls Rights Week May 3-7

May 3, 2010 by Amy Jussel 7 Comments

May 3, 2010 In honor of Girls Rights Week, advocating for positive change in the world, I’m going to run a week long series of “all things girl” to show how media and marketing can HELP rather than … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Nutrition & Wellness, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Sexualization & Body Image, Shaping Youth, Stereotypes & Diversity Tagged With: advocates, Amy-Jussel, APA sexualization study, beauty myth, Chicago Trib, Claire-Mysko, Deborah Reber, Deesha Philyaw, Dove, Empowering girls, exploitation, fem, females, femme, Gender, Girl Child Press, girl revolution, girlpower gone wrong, girls, Girls for a Change, girls inc., girls rights, Girls' Rights Week, Growing Up Girl, HGHW, Jess Weiner, kidlit, Kids, Lyn Mikel-Brown, media-literacy, New-Moon-Girl-Media, Packaging-Girlhood, preteens, Respect Rx, self-esteem, self-worth, Sexualization, Smart Girls Know, Space+Station-Discovery+Shuttle-Two+Female+Commanders+i, STEM, teens, true child, Women2Follow, worldchanging, youth

Smart Girls At the Party.TV: Interview with SNL’s Amy Poehler

December 2, 2008 by Amy Jussel 16 Comments

With eight seasons of Saturday Night Live under her belt, I automatically thought SNL actress Amy Poehler's new digital TV series would be a spoof or a sketch by the screenshot alone! I mean, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Advertising, Branding & Consumerism, Emerging trends & STEM, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Product Placement, Sexualization & Body Image, Shaping Youth, Stereotypes & Diversity Tagged With: All Things Girl, Amy Poehler, Amy-Jussel, Axe, Barbie, Barbie Girls, Be Bratz, Bratz, Danica McKellar, digital TV, Dove, EcoMall, empowerment, Fem2.0, feminist, girl power, girls, Hollywood, identity, indie, Kids, Kiss My Math, Marianne Schnall, Math Doesn't Suck, Mattel, MGA, On Network, positive media, preteen, preteens, Saturday Night Live, self-esteem, self-worth, smart girls, Smart Girls at the Party, smart is the new cool, SNL, Unilever

Girls’ Prescription for Self-Worth: Respect Rx

November 25, 2008 by Amy Jussel 22 Comments

As we wind down All Things Girl Week on Shaping Youth (which has turned into more of a month) let’s connect the dots on the one theme that keeps resurfacing time and again from sports and school … [Read more...]

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Girls For A Change: Amy Jussel and Carrie Ellett On World-Changing

November 15, 2008 by Amy Jussel 14 Comments

Some of you may remember I was one of the fortunate U.S. delegates last year for GWLN's “Women Leaders for the World 2007” along with global citizen and Hardy Girls Healthy Women advisory board member … [Read more...]

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A Tee Party Kicks Off ‘All Things Girl’ Week on Shaping Youth!

November 10, 2008 by Amy Jussel 25 Comments

Nov. 10, 2008 Sick of suggestive innuendos plastered on the chests of wee ones? Tired of ‘So Sexy So Soon’ messaging at ever-younger ages? Looking for media and marketing that builds up rather than … [Read more...]

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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

Unilever Disrobed: Interview With Dove/Axe Mashup Artist

November 13, 2007 by Amy Jussel 29 Comments

Update: 7-7-10 Added mashup video at the end Media transparency is more than a buzz word these days, as consumers connect the dots of who’s behind what, where money’s funneling from, and how we’re all … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Advertising, Branding & Consumerism, Consumerism, Growing up too soon, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Misogyny & Racism, Product Placement, Sexualization & Body Image, Shaping Youth, Stereotypes & Diversity, Viral & Buzz Media Tagged With: advertising ethics, Amy-Jussel, APA sexualization study, Axe, boy toys, campaign for real beauty, CFRB, children, corporate social responsibility, CSR, Dove, Kids, Mashup, Online Film Shorts, onslaught, parent companies, parenting, preteen-health, PSFK, Rye Clifton, self-esteem, Sexualization, So Sexy So Soon, SPARK, sparksummit, transparency, Unilever, youtube virals, YPulse-National-Mashup

7 clues to a New Year’s riddle for the 7th year of 2000

January 1, 2007 by Amy Jussel Leave a Comment

This landed in my e-mail from some pals of mine, and it seems worthy to toss out there to get kids thinking along these lines and open up some dialogue. Yes, I’m being ambiguous on purpose so I … [Read more...]

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12 Sep

How Can We Help Students Evaluate Scientific Information? Media Literacy Education! We recently convened #STEM & #MediaLiteracy educators to discuss the skills students need to learn to better evaluate scientific information & resist misinformation. ➡️

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12 Sep

Enjoying @iftf webinar happening now on #AI which is maxed out on attendees/Zoom, but viewable here: Complements the book I just finished, The Coming Wave which I HIGHLY recommend w/a macro lens on societal implications: https://www.the-coming-wave.com/ #IFTF

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6 Sep

"When #car companies aren’t busy sharing or selling your #data, they’re often not protecting it as well as they should. We couldn’t confirm if any of the car brands we researched meet our Minimum #Security Standards. That’s really bad and not normal" #tech

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7 Sep

Happening NOW...Great experts adding their perspectives via @FOSI on Zoom webinar right now: #tech4good #edu #storytelling #parenting

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