The article in the guardian explains how over 30,000 signatures were gathered! We just led a Beloved session on the media and the girls we work with were horrified to realise how many fake images they are presented with.
“as long as we make leadership bigger than us, we give ourselves an excuse not to expect it from ourselves and from each other”
for a 6 minute talk, this had a big impact on me!
Do you have a lollipop moment?? Have you told that person?
Have you caused one?
I love this post on Darling Magazine about dealing with the ocassional traps found in Social Media that can play on our insecurities.
Discovered these guys today.
Pinkstinks is a campaign that targets the products, media and marketing that prescribe heavily stereotyped and limiting roles to young girls. We believe that all children – girls and boys – are affected by the ‘pinkification’ of girlhood. Our aim is to challenge and reverse this growing trend. We also promote media literacy, self-esteem, positive body image and female role models for kids.
Their motto is ‘There’s more than one way to be a girl’ and they have a number of campaigns trying to make marketing represent this fact.
So what do you think? Is the world a little too pink these days?
The World Record Holder of the Quietest Place On Earth has been found to have quite strong affects on the human mind. NASA have tested human reactions to the room:
What they’ve found is that when all outside noise is removed from an enclosure, human hearing will do its best to find something to listen to. In a room where almost 100% of sound is muted, people begin to hear things like their own heartbeat at a greatly amplified volume. As the minutes tick by in absolute quiet, the human mind begins to lose its grip, causing test subjects to hallucinate.
I’m declaring this to be the unofficial Beloved theme song.
The lyrics and video are perfect.
“If I’m Your beloved, help me believe it”
Tim Hawkins being brilliant.
“Village people… Rocky…. Touchdown”
