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Strong Is The New Pretty: Interview with Kate T. Parker

April 30, 2015 by Amy Jussel

April 30, 2015 Adamant as I am about shifting appearance cues in the media towards a "whole person" lens, it's no surprise I was thrilled to hear photographer Kate T. Parker's catchphrase, "Strong is … [Read more...]

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New Moon Girl Media Officially Launches on Founder’s Birthday!

November 12, 2008 by Amy Jussel 27 Comments

Bringing girls voices to the world, New Moon Girl Media’s online community vaults out of beta testing to be “born” on Founder Nancy Gruver’s birthday today! I’m … [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

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