Feb. 12, 2015 “What people do in private is their own business.” But what happens when Hollywood makes a movie glorifying, promoting and normalizing violence against women and coerced sex? It becomes the business of everyone to examine the message our kids are receiving from it.Couldn't have said it better myself.Those are the words of Educate Empower Kids.org's Amanda … [Read more...]
50 Shades of Disempowerment: Teach Your Children Well
Filed Under: Growing up too soon, Pro-Social & Positive Picks Tagged With: 50 Dollars Not 50 Shades, 50 Shades of Abuse, 50 shades of disempowerment, break the cycle, circle of 6 app, domestic violence, Educate Empower Kids, erotic normalization of violence against women, Fifty Shades is Abuse, Fifty Shades of Gray, Fifty Shades of Grey, girlpower gone wrong, Love is respect, National teen dating abuse, NDVH, No More, sexual assault, sexual consent, TDVAM, teen dating abuse, teen dating violence, teen dv, Tornado Warning, VAW
Shaping Youth Honors Girls Rights Week May 3-7
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 hinder healthy development. What IS Girls Rights Week? Another ‘Hallmark holiday’ you ask? Not by a long shot... As one who changed radio channels four times on the way to … [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