By Eliana Buenrostro To many, Taylor Swift is a breath of fresh of air, a nice change from the many overproduced sexualized pop stars. She plays guitar and writes her own songs. Swift has been lauded as a role model for young girls and she might be single handedly responsible for bringing pop country songs…
By Crystal Ogar The sexualization of young girls and women begins at a very early age. But what happens when you get older? There’s a suspicious trend that starts to arise as you go from being a young adult to an older woman — the marketing of beauty and anti-aging products exclusively to women. I’m…
By Maya Brown So the other day I went with my friends to see The Adventures of Tintin at the movies. On my way out the door my mom told me she had heard that the author of the Tintin comic books was really sexist, so I went with a mind to watch out for…
By Stephanie Cole Sometimes when I’m watching a movie or television show or reading a book and I really dig the narrative, I come to a moment where I can suddenly, vividly picture the story going in a direction that would ruin the whole darn thing. As someone who tends to have feminism on the…
The SPARK Research Blog: Real Talk about Really New Research on the Sexualization of Girls, is brought to you by the ASAP Initiative at Hunter/CUNY, one of the SPARK leadership team partners. The goal of the bi-monthly SPARK Research Blog is to tell you about the latest research findings in clear and plain language, with a…
[Ed. note: this post in solidarity with Ethnic Studies students and educators in Arizona is inspired by FAAN Mail’s #WishiLearnedinHS campaign. For more information about the Ethnic Studies ban, including a list of books confiscated from Arizona public schools, please click here.] By Eliana Buenrostro On Februrary 1 2012, the bill HB 2281 went into effect…
By Eliana Buenrostro As a feminist, I am constantly hearing about the ways companies continue to treat the differences between girls and boys as innate. But this past Christmas, it really hit home when I heard about the toys my cousins received. My 6-year-old cousin received a Nintendo 3DS – a game with infinite play…
SPARK mailed LEGO a certified letter on Tuesday to follow-up on our request for a meeting. We’ve asked for LEGO to contact us by Tuesday, Feb. 6th. Stay tuned. By Bailey Shoemaker Richards SPARK and our partners might be waiting for a response to our letter to LEGO, but we are certainly not sitting around.…