By Juliana Bello Hi SPARK fans! I’m Juliana Bello, and I’m a SPARK team blogger. I just want to say a little bit about what I did at the summit. The opening speeches were incredible. I loved when the entire auditorium affirmed together that WE ARE NOT ANTI-SEX! We just want control over our sexuality. [...]
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SPARK Experience
Posted by SPARKsummit on November 16th, 2010
By Culley Schultz Culley Schultz is a senior at Glen Ridge High School, outside of New York City. She is the vice-president of the GRHS Girls Learn International (GLI) Chapter as well as the Secretary of the GLI Junior Board. Last year, Culley created a short documentary and commentary on the portrayal of women and [...]
Answers to Questions from Spark Virtual Summit
Posted by SPARKsummit on November 15th, 2010
SPARK Virtual Summit – Q&A Q1: Brooklyn, NY: What do you have to say about sports, for example, competitive cheerleading, which are broadly feminized and ALWAYS over-sexualized by media? I would agree — some sports are highly sexualized on the women’s side. Beach volleyball is a perfect example. Women typically play in bikinis whereas men [...]
Boys Will Be Boys?
Posted by SPARKsummit on November 9th, 2010
By Lidor Foguel Originally posted at F to the Third Power Lidor Foguel is a senior at Elisabeth Irwin High School. Her academic interests are mathematics and chemistry. Outside of school, community service is a passion. Lidor decided to take a high school feminism class to learn and explore the movement in depth. The class [...]
Where Is Your Line?
Posted by Lauren Herold on October 20th, 2010
How can we explore the boundaries of violence and pleasure? What does living in a “sexually liberated” society really mean? Where is your line? Nancy Schwartzman travels around the country with her film The Line in order to ask young woman and men these very questions. It’s a sex-positive, anti sexual violence movement called The Line [...]
Glee GQ Photos: Soft Porn?
The internet has been abuzz with the highly sexualized photo spread of Glee Cast members Lea Michele and Dianna Agron, taken for the men’s magazine GQ. Dubbed “Glee Gone Wild” these photographs are targeted at GQ’s readership, made up of 72% men whose median age is 33.4. Yet the characters in the extraordinarily popular television [...]