By Maya Brown This has been a busy week here at SPARK! Hot on the heels of our fantastic meeting with LEGO is a new petition (gotta love ‘em) started by SPARKteam girl activist Julia Bluhm. This fab 14 year old is calling out Seventeen Magazine on their overwhelming usage of photoshop. Julia is asking [...]
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 Maya Brown Her eyes are crazed, her tan glows under the florescent lights, and her hair springs from its tight bun as she pushes past everyone to land that first spot in line. Every year millions of American women make their way to stores at 5 a.m., midnight — even 9pm the day before [...]
By Maya Brown Recently, while watching the newest episode of Glee (I know, I know, but I’m a musical geek, it’s like my drug), I came to a realization. We talk a lot about how the media sexualizes women and makes them into the objects of male fantasies, but the media does a lot more [...]
By Maya Brown The new fall lineup is upon us. We’ve seen promos, we’ve heard spoilers, and we’ve watched interviews. We’ve read discussions about the new breakout shows and excited blogs about which will be the funniest. Well, here are my top three shows to avoid by all means–or at least to watch on Hulu [...]
Represent US with Miss Representation
The media doesn’t represent us–so we’re making our own media. We’re sick of media that shows women and girls as weak, catty, looks-obsessed, boy-crazy objects of pleasure, so the SPARKteam is joining Miss Representation in demanding media that fairly, fully, and accurately represents women. For every 1000 videos submitted, the folks at the Miss Representation campaign [...]