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So Sexy So Soon: Shaping Youth Chats With Jean Kilbourne, Ed.D.

August 17, 2009 by Amy Jussel 30 Comments

August 17, 2009 Last month So Sexy So Soon hit the market in paperback, though my hand-signed hardback by academic rockstars Diane Levin, Ph.D. and Jean Kilbourne Ed.D is frayed, highlighted, and worn from full use with youth and parent ed groups ever since its release last year. I broke bread with these two research pioneers at Susan Linn’s house when she hosted all of the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Advertising, Branding & Consumerism, Consumerism, Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Misogyny & Racism, Sexualization & Body Image, Stereotypes & Diversity, Vapid Values Tagged With: age compression, APA, APA report early sexualization, Beauty, Body-Dysmorphia, Bratz, buffed boy, CCFC, children, commercialism, commodification, compassion deficit disorder, controversy, Diane Levin, gender equity, girls, Girls Gone Wild, girls-self-worth, hooking up, ideals, impersonal sex, Isis-Inc, Jean Kilbourne, Kids, Killing Us Softly, MEF, Miley Cyrus, numbing, objectification, Packaging-Girlhood, pole dancing, Pornification, provocative clothes, Pussycat Dolls, self-worth, Sesame Streetwalkers, sex objects, Sexual Media, Sexual Teens, sexuality, Sexualization, sexualized childhood, Slim Hopes, slut-ho, So Sexy So Soon, strippers, Teen Choice Awards, teens, thong, tweens, Vanity Fair, violence, War Play, youth

Childhood Matters Radio Show: Raising Strong, Healthy Girls Today

July 19, 2009 by Amy Jussel 12 Comments

July 19, 2009 Here are some of the brand new resources or lesser known resources I named on the air today for those seeking SOLUTIONS rather than just identifying problems to get girls strong from the start and counter-act raising girls amidst "meat marketing"so pervasive today. TrueChild.org: Washington D.C. based advocacy org focusing specifically on these gender … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Advertising, Branding & Consumerism, Consumerism, Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Misogyny & Racism, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Sexualization & Body Image, Shaping Youth, Stereotypes & Diversity Tagged With: All Things Girl, Amy-Jussel, athletes, Childhood Matters, Daughters.com, Early-Sexualization, Empowering girls, Feel Good Girl, Felicia Richardson Battle, Fem2.0, females, Frank W. Baker, Geena Davis Institute, Gender, Gender Roles, gifted girls, Girl Mogul, girls, Girls for a Change, Girls-Are-Champions, How I Look Journal, Jean Kilbourne, leaders, Lisa Izzi, media and women, Media Clearinghouse, Media stereotypes, media-literacy, Nan Dellheim, New Moon, Nurse Rona Renner, parenting, pink and blue, Pop-Culture, prime time TV, raising girls, Representation, Respect Rx, smart girls, So Sexy So Soon, teens, The Daddy Shift, The Girl Revolution, true child, tweens, women, women 2.0, women and media

Raising Girls Amidst Meat Marketing: Carls Jr., Burger King Raunch

July 16, 2009 by Amy Jussel 32 Comments

Jan. 27, 2015 Update: It's achingly sad that I can reprise my own prose about "meat marketing" women with gobsmacking sexualization and objectification commodifying bodies as edible objects to be consumed, but alas Carl's Jr. is using the same stale crass-en masse trash for outrage baiting buzz in 2015 as they did five years ago.Guess they're consistent in their sexist tripe, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Advertising, Branding & Consumerism, Consumerism, Damaging Drek, Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Misogyny & Racism, Product Placement, Sexualization & Body Image, Shaping Youth, Stereotypes & Diversity, Vapid Values Tagged With: AIDS, Amplify your voice, apa sexualization, April Fronk, Burger King, burger wars, Carls Jr., CCFC, Childhood Matters, civil rights, ColaLife.org, crass advertising, Dr. Kay Kleinerman, Fem2.0, females, feminism, Feministing, girls, Girls-Are-Champions, HIV, hot chicks eating burgers, junk-food, Lisa Izzi, medicine, objectification, offensive ads, Packaging-Girlhood, Rona-Renner, sexist commercials, Simon Berry, spongebog squarebutts, super seven incher, Target, true child, Twittermob rally, young hungry guys, young men, youth

Teen Girl Moguls & Social Entrepreneurs: What’s Your Story?

June 6, 2009 by Amy Jussel 4 Comments

June 6, 2009 Calling all ‘young people who rock’ between the ages of 14-17...this is the final week to START to tell your tales in ‘Girls Helping Girls’ style (by June 15 to begin submissions, June 30 to finish them) to vy for the Youth Service America Gladys Coccia Award. Who is Gladys Marinelli Coccia? What’s her story? Let’s just say anyone who became a business woman at … [Read more...]

Filed Under: EcoKids-Environment, Emerging trends & STEM, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, People Shaping Youth, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Shaping Youth Tagged With: Ashoka Youth Venture, Change.org, common good, DigiGirlz, female, girls, Girls for a Change, Girls helping girls, Girls Lead Now, Gladys Coccia Award, Gladys Marinelli Coccia, GMS, green, hardy girls, healthy women, innovators, leaders, Project Global Cooling, Sejal Hathi, Sisters 4 Peace, Social entrepreneurs, teen change agents, teens, youth service america, YSA, YWCA

Interview with Amy Jussel on The Girl Revolution

June 3, 2009 by Amy Jussel 13 Comments

June 3, 2009 While I was at the Ypulse Youth Marketing Mashup, the last two days, this "Interview with Shaping Youth Director" (aka yours truly) posted on The Girl Revolution. Here's (Part One) and (Part Two) which I'm just seeing now...It's very strange being the 'interviewee' rather than the interviewer! It all came about when a student from Philadelphia in Professor … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Sexualization & Body Image, Shaping Youth Tagged With: Adinas-Deck, All Things Girl, Amy-Jussel, anti-racist parent, Co-Parenting 101, Deesha Philyaw, empowerment, girls, Interview with Shaping Youth Director, KGOY, literary mama, Mamalicious, preteens, relational aggression, self-worth, sexting, Sexualization, TGR, The Girl Revolution, Tracee Sioux, YPulse-National-Mashup