SPARK a Movement!
1. (noun) a movement to speak out, push back on the sexualization of girls, and have fun while fighting for girls' rights to healthy sexuality.
2. (verb) to rouse strong feeling or action
SPARK is an intergenerational movement fueled by girl activists & their allies. Get at us on Facebook, Twitter, & and SPARKmovement.org!
Got questions or feelings? Leave us a note in our askbox, or submit a post.
After a wildly successful Day 1 of the Keep It Real Challenge asking magazines to drop idealized image editing—both Lucky Mag and Marie Claire publicly showed support!—it’s time for Day 2: blog-o-rama!
We have three written pieces & several vlogs going up today about image retouching, body image, magazines, and media, and we want YOU to contribute! Submit posts to us, send us the link to a post or video you’ve posted elsewhere, or tag your related tumblr posts with #keepitreal & we’ll reblog and tweet about your pieces. You can also post your pieces in the Facebook event!
Join us!
JOIN US in the #KeepItReal Challenge!
wicked super in love with this song, which was submitted to miss representation’s “represent us” campaign: http://www.represent-us.org
Please stop telling me I’m pretty Please stop telling me I’m fat
Please stop telling me I’m crazy Just cause I love every cat
Please stop calling me a spinster Just cause I wont lie with you
I know you’d be calling me a whore If I went home with you
Don’t tell me I need protecting Don’t say I need to be saved
Don’t tell me I’m PMSing If your mindless ignorance sends me into a rage.
Sexism this holiday season? We’re #notbuyingit. Find out more about this campaign at Miss Representation.
Carmen has one request: “more afros.”
“We’re not scared of geeky things—some women really like them. Fangirls unite!” — SPARKteam member Steph
How the media could better represent me, for www.represent-us.org.
I don’t think I’m saying anything new here, but it needs to be repeated until they listen.
“I think it’s really important to tell women, especially young women, that we are full and complete human beings as we are, and we don’t need relationships to find ourselves.”
more from the SPARKteam / submit your own
(Source: doulaness)
Represent Us!
Miss Representation asked how the media can better represent us. And this one of the many ways I’d like to be better represented.
“I’d love to see more portrayals of women of color that don’t focus on negative stereotypes, that we’re just angry baby mamas who can’t catch a break.”
“I am so much more than what I look like.” — SPARKteam member Maya, age 16.
