Teen Vogue HW #4 + how you can help!
Our fourth Teen Vogue homework assignment comes from SPARK blogger Ria, who analyzed the March 2008 issue of Teen Vogue. Seem kind of in the distant past? NAH–when we met with them, they gave us issues dating back to 2008 to study up on, so we figure this is fair game! Here’s what she found,…
Teen Vogue Homework Assignment #3: August 2012
In this edition of our Teen Vogue Homework, Izzy, Maya, and Julia got together to go through the August 2012 issue of Teen Vogue, marking “non-diverse” images (or images of white, thin women) with “diverse” images (images of women of color or non-thin women), and at the end of their journey, here’s what they’d found: 110…
Teen Vogue Assignment #2: October 2011
For her homework assignment, SPARK blogger Shanzeh investigated the October 2011 issue of Teen Vogue. Her findings will probably not surprise you. She writes: Every green post-it represents an image of a white girl. Every yellow post-it represents an image of one woman of color. Total pictures of white girls: 150. Total pictures of WOC:…
Teen Vogue Assignment #1: September 2012
As promised, this week we’re bringing you our “homework” as requested by Teen Vogue. Today, SPARK activist Alice looks through the September issue of Teen Vogue for diverse, unretouched photos of models and girls. But even with Selena Gomez on the cover, this issue just doesn’t quite make the grade: Counting repeat images (so, multiple…
We've done our homework–now it's time for Teen Vogue to do theirs
by Maya Brown This past summer, fabulous SPARKTeam members Emma and Carina wrote a Change.org petition and staged a mock fashion show outside of Teen Vogue headquarters, asking the magazine to follow the lead of Seventeen and pledge to stop photoshopping the bodies and faces of girls in their magazine and commit to showing diversity…
Altered Bodies, Altered Minds: We want Teen Vogue to Keep it Real
by Britney Franco Yesterday, we SPARK girls had a mock fashion show outside of the Condé Nast building in Times Square, New York, and publicly voiced our opinion on how Teen Vogue alters the bodies of the girls who appear in their publication. We made sure that people saw how girls were affected by this; after all, 75%…
CALLING ALL TEEN GIRLS! Join our virtual Teen Vogue action!
Thanks to you, Seventeen Magazine publicly committed to never altering girls’ faces or bodies and to showing a diverse range of beauty. Now it’s Teen Vogue’s turn to step it up, and we think they may need a little SPARKlin’ encouragement. On Wednesday July 11th (that’s tomorrow!), Emma Stydahar, Carina Cruz, and the rest of the…