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YTH: Youth, Tech, Health–Shaping Youth Interviews YTH Jamia Wilson

March 29, 2014 by Amy Jussel Leave a Comment

Mar. 29, 2014 Like a teen whose spirited, edgy adolescence evolved toward bold innovation, I’ve watched YTH.org "grow up" as an organization over time, expanding and emerging into one of the most … [Read more...]

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Talk To Me: Because Media Matters For Youth Outreach

September 9, 2011 by Amy Jussel 8 Comments

Sept. 9, 2011 “Text, poke, like, or chat...” What about TALK? I love how this Trevor "Talk To Me" 3-word anti-bullying campaign by The Trevor Project goes back into time to cut through the social … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Shaping Youth, Stereotypes & Diversity Tagged With: Advocates-for-youth, anti-bullying, anti-gay, bullycide, bullying, campaign for conversation, Chronic Healing, gay suicide, gender equality, Glee, Global Leaders for Justice, Global-Good, homophobia, homosexuality, human rights, IASP, IDAHO, incivility, International Day Against Homophobia, It Gets Better, Jeanne Endo, Kevin McHale, Lgbt, LGBT Youth Need Heroes, Lifeline, Matthew Shepard, National Suicide Prevention, National Suicide Prevention Week, outreach, peace and social justice, Pflag, reach and teach, reachout, ReachOut in the USA, Safe Talk Teens, sexuality, social bigotry, social justice, Start the conversation, Straight Against Hate, suicide prevention, Talk to Me, Talk To Me.org, teaching tolerance, The Laramie Project, The Trevor Project, transgender, Trevor Talk To Me, youth at risk

The Perfect Gift for a Man: Reinventing Manhood (Book)

December 9, 2009 by Amy Jussel 12 Comments

Dec. 9, 2009 And now for the GOOD news! Yesterday for I wrote about ‘boys being turned into monsters’ with toxic marketing proliferation about what it means to be masculine, rolling out narrowcast … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Branding & Consumerism, Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Sexualization & Body Image, Shaping Youth, Stereotypes & Diversity, Viral & Buzz Media Tagged With: ActNow, AOC, AOC1, AOC2, AOC3, APA, Australia, becoming a man, book giveaway, boys, boys to men, Buffed-Boys, change agents, collaborative book, courageous men, depression, Derrick Kikuchi, Drew McClellan, Gavin Heaton, Gender, GIJoe, humanity, identity, Inspire Foundation, male heroes, male stereotypes, males, manhood, manhood for amateurs, ManWeek, masculinity, Media stereotypes, men, men and media, monster, Muscle-Men, Packaging-Boyhood, Packaging-Girlhood, peace, reach and teach, Reach Out, reinvention, Ron Mattocks, self-worth, Servant of Chaos, slackers, social-media, suicide, suicide prevention, superheroes, teens, The Age of Conversation, The Good Men Project, The Perfect Gift for a Man, Tikkun Daily, toxic cues to kids, warrior men

Celebrate My Birthday By Helping Beth Kanter Celebrate Hers!

January 4, 2009 by Amy Jussel 10 Comments

Visual Insight guru Eileen Clegg sent me this lovely card (at left) along with a sweet sentiment about “trips around the sun” prompting a recall of a kindergarten tradition I want to … [Read more...]

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