Bigger Stronger Faster *
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8nOKJTL6Tg] I am looking into media (documentaries, movies, etc) to share with my body image class this fall and came across Bigger Stronger Faster* in my research. This documentary is […]
Can't Buy My Love
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xa0iivtTclM] Jean Kilbourne has been a media literacy activist for decades. Can’t Buy My Love was orignally published as Deadly Persuasion and is one of the books that I am […]
Go Jamie Go!
Saw this opening sentence on people.com and had to read the whole thing. Hope you will, too. Actress Jamie Lee Curtis has once again decided to bare her soul – and […]
Revolution Brewing Down Under?
Just came across this article about a movement down under to change the images that young women see in the media. Cheers to another great step in the revolution to celebrate the beauty […]
Writing Contest for Latinas between 14-21
AUSTIN, Texas – Following a reverse trend in publishing, Latinitas magazine (www.latinitasmagazine.org), the first digital magazine made for and by Latina youth, is augmenting its successful online publications with the […]
Neglect of Hispanics is the media's dirty little secret
“One of the areas we experience the greatest shortfall in the mainstream media is the concept of ‘mainstreaming,’” Rafael Olmeda told me the other day. He is the assistant city […]
Hollywood is better, but not quite there.
In my 10 Things That Will Make You Think, Speak, and Act workshop, I talk about the diversification of Hollywood and how far we still have to go. One of […]
Daisy Fuentes, Girls on the Run, Hijas Americanas, and Fitness Magazine
Here is a statistic from the Growing Up Latina survey that 521 women completed in support of the research for Hijas Americanas: 84% of respondents feel that women today are […]
