December 2011
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“Traditionally, toys were intended to communicate parental values and...”
– Does Stripping Gender From Toys Really Make Sense? - NYTimes.com (via sociolab)
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Body Hate Apocalypse 2012 →
Our partners at Beauty Redefined have put together an amazing list of 15 goals to help make 2012 your happiest, healthiest, most positive year yet. We particularly like these media-oriented resolutions but the whole list is great:
Put your $ where your mouth is: Make a goal to only shop at stores that treat [women] respectfully in their advertising and products. Speaking up with your pocketbook...
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Becoming a Pop Culture Pirate pt 2: Video Editing →
Part 2 of our series on media remixing & creating is here! Today it’s all about video remix: the whats, whys, and hows of talking back to pop culture and harnessing the power of media through your own creations. Check it out!
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Lego: stop selling out girls! #LiberateLego →
In 1981, LEGO’s campaign, “What it is, is beautiful,” invited girls to play with LEGOs in a way that didn’t appeal to this lowest common denominator version of girlhood, but gave girls credit for being creative, smart, and imaginative. This has always been LEGO’s strength. It’s why they are parents’ go-to toy. They’ve never sold our kids out—until now. As parents, aunts, uncles, grandparents,...
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andimthedad replied to your post: andimthedad replied to your quote: Instead of…
I mostly agree. I think there is a larger retail industry problem (e.g. that there are “girls” vs. “boys” aisles) which Lego is exploiting. But, if Lego is stuck in the “boys” aisle, how else will it get out? Push Walmart for a “nongendered” aisle?
This is definitely a toy industry problem. As for creating...
andimthedad replied to your quote: Instead of spending 4 years on research that ended…
We own some “girly” Lego blocks (Lego Belville, and also Lego-compatible Hello Kitty blocks from Megabloks). They’re only girly if you insist on playing with ‘em that way. Same will be true here, no?
That’s awesome that you mix them!
You’re right when you say that things are only as...
One teacher's approach to preventing gender...
togetherforjacksoncountykids:
“It’s Okay to be Neither,” By Melissa Bollow Tempel
Alie arrived at our 1st-grade classroom wearing a sweatshirt with a hood. I asked her to take off her hood, and she refused. I thought she was just being difficult and ignored it. After breakfast we got in line for art, and I noticed that she still had not removed her hood. When we arrived at the art room, I said:...
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Becoming a Pop Culture Pirate pt 1: Music Remixing →
This week SPARK is running a two-part miniseries about media remix and resistance. We were inspired by the work of Elisa Kreisinger, The Pop Culture Pirate, when she came to speak at our activist retreat this past October, so we named this series in her honor. Check it out!
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“Instead of spending 4 years on research that ended up leading to Lego selling...”
– LEGO’s listening, but they’re not quite hearing us | SPARK a Movement
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Big News: You Can Be One of Our People!
consensual:
hello people we love very much:
we’re looking to expand our team. and that means we’re looking at you.
we need:
+ people to be a part of our tumblr team (AKA scour tumblr for good content, or reblog the content of your own dashboard to our shiny tumblr!)
+ people to write about consent for us on an upcoming campaign blog (meaning news, opinion, and personal testimony writing...
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“In fact, what’s most troubling about this everything-old-is-eww-again trend is...”
– Jaclyn Friedman | Girl on Girl Victim Blaming Action
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“Couch it the trappings of edgy rebellion against the PC police all you want;...”
– Jaclyn Friedman | Girl on Girl Victim Blaming Action
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Girls are no worse than boys at maths: Study in 86... →
“This is not a matter of biology: None of our findings suggest that an innate biological difference between the sexes is the primary reason for a gender gap in math performance at any level. Rather, these major international studies strongly suggest that the maths gender gap, where it occurs, is due to cultural factors that differ among countries - and that these factors can be...
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“I’m not taking it off. The judge needs citizenship lessons, not me.”
– Hind Ahmas, a Muslim French woman, in response to being arrested for wearing a headcovering outside.
“I don’t care what you’re doing or how old you are or who it’s with, if a girl...”
– My mom, to my younger brother. (via rose-colored-sunglasses)
This is DEFINITELY something that should be included in the sex talk and in sex education.
(via fuckyeahsexeducation)
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“When the Disney Channel was pressed about whether they would address gay...”
– Disney Channel Refuses to Stray from Stereotypes | SPARK a Movement
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“Researchers gave a group of men and women quotes from the British lad mags FHM,...”
– Can you tell the difference between a men’s magazine and a rapist? | Jezebel
The full story includes quotes used in the study, and they are profoundly disturbing. We couldn’t read the whole list.
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17-Year-Old Girl Creates Nanoparticle That Kills... →
When I was seventeen, it was a very good year. Actually, that’s a flat out lie. When I was seventeen I was probably wallowing in self-important despair so trivial that now, years later, I can’t even remember if I was wallowing or not. The point I’m getting at here is that I wasn’t doing anything productive, much less anything that could save countless lives and contribute to a field of science...
Anti Fascist Italian women's group, GDDD, written...
ragdublin:
The GDDD were an organization of women in Italy from 1943-45. They were the largest group of active anti fascist women at the time. At their height they had around 70,000 members and comprised of women from every walk of life, from previously unpoliticised housewives to lifelong radical activists. Some of the work they did included organizing strikes, armed resistance, setting up...
To every anon who has ever asked us why we don't...
SPARKteam blogger Stephanie wrote something just for you:
I am not going to dwell on the nature of the question, except to say that asking about sexism against men is akin to asking about racism against white people. But that fact doesn’t mean that men can’t suffer under our current gender construction. In fact, the same media and cultural constructions that limit the roles offered to women and...
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“To suggest feminists who oppose the pornification of society are stirring up a...”
– Moral panic? No. We are resisting the pornification of women | The Guardian
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(TW)STUDY: More Than Half Of Black Girls Are... →
newwavefeminism:
so-treu:
Sixty percent of black girls have experienced sexual abuse at the hands of black men before reaching the age of 18, according to an ongoing study conducted by Black Women’s Blueprint.
More than 300 black women nationwide participated in the study and 700 more are being sought to take in the survey by March 2012.
Farah Tanis, Co-Founder of the New York-based...
WE'RE AT 97%! HELP US GET TO 100%!
safercampus:
Today is the last day of our IndieGoGo fundraising campaign. Thank you for all your help getting us to 97% of our goal of raising $7,000 to give students a SAFER campus! Will you help us get to 100%? Please share and contribute. Every little bit makes a difference.
About SAFER
SAFER is a national nonprofit organization that empowers students across the country to change how...
“I really, truly believe that reality TV is the contemporary cultural backlash...”
– Jennifer Pozner
(via ministerofmuggles)
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