Partners and Allies

SPARK Ally of the day: Jean Kilbourne

I’ve been studying the image of women in the media for over 40 years and made my first film, Killing Us Softly, way back in 1979. I’ve long been dreaming of a movement that would challenge the objectification and sexualizaion of girls. I’m delighted to help ignite the wonderful PBG campaign! Part of “30 Allies…

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SPARK Ally of the day: Vinitha Nair

I’m the Co-Founder and Executive Director of Platform Shoes Forum. I co-created Zoey’s Room to encourage and retain girls into science, technology, engineering, and math career pathways. The ZR platform aims to provide an alternate focus for girls that is positive, collaborative, and supportive of each other. In the media, no other sub-sector seems to…

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SPARK Ally of the day: Jennifer Finney Boylan

I’m a writer and a teacher, best known, maybe, for my memoir, She’s Not There, the first bestselling book by a transgender American. I have tried to shine a light on gender issues in the media, from the New York Times op/ed page to the Oprah Winfrey Show. Freeing girls from the shackles of media…

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SPARK Ally of the day: Rachell Arteaga

I am a master’s student at the Harvard Graduate School of Education where I’m learning about different types of research that I will use to shift the current kids’ media environment to be a more nurturing, inclusive community for girls and children of color. I want to help spark this movement because the sexualization of…

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SPARK Ally of the day: Amy Jussel

I’m founder of Shaping Youth, a nonprofit consortium dealing with media and marketing’s impact on kids. We’re using tactics of industry insiders to fight fire with fire and excited to help light the fuse to spark the power of media for positive change. I’m a writer/producer by trade and have seen industry devolve into appearance-based…

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SPARK Ally of the day: Jaclyn Friedman

I’m the executive director of Women, Action & the Media, writer, performer, speaker and activist. I’m also the editor of Yes Means Yes: Visions of Female Sexual Power and a World Without Rape, a book dedicated to creating a safer, healthier world in which everyone can experience their sexuality on their own terms. I’m adding…

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SPARK Ally of the day: Melissa Wardy

I am the creator of Pigtail Pals, a company that offers the empowering message to girls to Redefine Girly. I run Pigtail Pals online store, write our blog, design our products, and talk to parents and girls about media literacy and the sexualization of girls. I am adding the Redefine Girly spark to this movement…

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SPARK Ally of the day: Sharon Lamb

I’m a professor, author, researcher, and media critic who co-authored Packaging Girlhood and the APA Task Force Report on the Sexualization of Girls and is currently co-authoring a sexual ethics curriculum.  Girls deserve a sex education that’s real and relevant and critical of sexualizing images so that they can both explore and be safe, get…

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