By Stephanie Cole This Friday, April 20th, fellow SPARKteam Blogger Bailey Shoemaker Richards, SPARK Executive Director Dana Edell, Jamia Wilson, Vice President of Programs at the Women’s Media Center and Co-Founder of SPARK, and I will be meeting with the LEGO Corporation about the concerns raised by SPARK over the LEGO Friends product line. Since [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Stephanie Cole’
Sexism from Both Sides
Posted by SPARK on April 5th, 2012
By Stephanie Cole I’ve been a devoted reader of The New Yorker since middle school, and I’ve been happy to note that the magazine has been riding a fantastic trend of articles focusing on women in the media. But I’ve never been a fan of their film critics, who have a tendency to veer off [...]
Oscar is an Old White Man: What Does that Mean for Women in Hollywood?
Posted by SPARK on February 23rd, 2012
By Stephanie Cole The 84th annual Academy Awards are this Sunday, and if I had been asked a month ago what I would be doing this weekend, I would have happily said I’ll be enjoying my 10th annual day of vegging out in front of red carpet schmoozing and Best Original Song performances. But when [...]
What the MiniFig?! Legos Build The Wrong Message For Girls
Posted by SPARKsummit on December 20th, 2011
By Stephanie Cole I speak from personal experience when I say that to be “media aware” is to open oneself up to the possibility of being infuriated every day. It’s actually a pretty invigorating experience, but I find that since I’m a pretty positive person, I cannot allow every sexist or sexualizing thing to seriously [...]
What about the Boys?
Posted by SPARKsummit on December 7th, 2011
By Stephanie Cole Here at SPARK, actually anywhere in the feminist movement, we get used to fielding questions. Many of them are, for lack of a better word, stupid. I have often had my self-identification as feminist immediately followed by, “So, do you, like, hate men?” I hope I don’t actually have to answer that [...]
Sherlock Goes Sexist: Arthur Conan Doyle is Very Disappointed
By Stephanie Cole Sometimes when I’m watching a movie or television show or reading a book and I really dig the narrative, I come to a moment where I can suddenly, vividly picture the story going in a direction that would ruin the whole darn thing. As someone who tends to have feminism on the [...]