Resources
Groups That Work Towards Positive Portrayals of Girls & Women in the Media
Groups That Work Towards Positive Portrayals of Girls & Women in the Media
Miss Representation
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This group is the action arm of the 2011 award-winning feminist documentary, Miss Representation (aired on OWN, the Oprah Winfrey Network), which explores how the media’s misrepresentations of women have led to the under-representation of women in positions of power and influence.
The film challenges the media’s often negative portrayals of women and girls, which make it difficult for women to achieve leadership positions and for the average woman or girl to feel powerful herself.The documentary film also discusses the sexualization of girls and women in our culture. |
Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media (See Jane)
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Headed by the actress, Geena Davis, this organization works towards improving gender portrayals of girls in children's media, reducing stereotyping and creating a wide variety of female characters for entertainment targeting children 11 and under. Geena's organization works with Hollywood producers and studio heads to increase the number of female characters in movies/TV/film, in order to provide girls with positive role models. Go Geena ! |
SPARK Movement
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SPARK is a girl-fueled activist movement to demand an end to the sexualization of women and girls in media. Julia Bloom is a SPARK activist - Julia is the 14-year-old girl who started an online petition that convinced Seventeen Magazine to stop airbrushing its models ! SPARK activists have now targeted Teen Vogue as their next anti-Photoshop battle, on behalf of girls everywhere !
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