Posted in Body Image, Enlighten Education, Magazines, Media, Plastic Surgery on May 6th, 2009 4 Comments »
I was recently invited onto Channel 7’s The Morning Show to discuss an “Extreme Makeover” story in Girlfriend magazine’s June 2009 issue. Using before and after shots of a teen girl, they show readers just how much work goes into producing the perfect images on magazine covers: the hours of hair and makeup, clever lighting [...]
Posted in Body Image, Bullying, Eating Disorders, Enlighten Education, Magazines, Media, Parents, Power of Words, Resources on Apr 26th, 2009 5 Comments »
This month, alarming research was published showing that eating disorders now plague very young children. The study’s findings included a child only 5 years of age who was hospitalised with Early Onset Eating Disorder (EOED).
It was Dr Sloane Madden from The Children’s Hospital at Westmead, New South Wales, who raised the alarm: “What we are seeing [...]
Posted in Cyber world / Bullying, Enlighten Education, Media, Mobile Phones, Parents, Schools, Sexualisation of children on Apr 16th, 2009 3 Comments »
Please note: the blogging platform I use, Edublogs, filters out words like p*rn, hence the need to use asterisks. If you wish to comment, please use symbols to avoid your text being automatically deleted.
Warning: the sites hyperlinked in this blog post include sexually explicit personal accounts of sex and p*rn*graphy.
P*rn is nothing new, but [...]
Posted in Body Image, Bullying, Enlighten Education, Fashion Industry, Magazines, Media, Schools, Sexualisation of children on Mar 18th, 2009 4 Comments »
The clip below is a really interesting opinion piece posted by The New York Times on March 10th. (Click on the image or visit: http://video.nytimes.com/video/2009/03/09/opinion/1194838469575/sex-lies-and-photoshop.html.)
This has particular relevance for us in Australia. Here, too, the camera always lies.
Does it matter? Yes. For some years now groups like ours have been advocating for more realistic and diverse portrayals of [...]
Posted in Advertising, Beauty Industry, Fashion Industry, Magazines, Media on Jan 30th, 2009 4 Comments »
Have the PCD’s (The Pussycat Dolls) stooped to a new low? I was watching the film clip to their song “I Hate This Part Right Here” when I was stunned by the scene depicting one of the girls draped in a very suggestive “come and get me” pose over a pinball machine. This appears in [...]
Posted in Advertising, Body Image, Enlighten Education, Magazines, Media, Power of Words, Resources, Schools, Sexualisation of children on Jan 21st, 2009 4 Comments »
I want to begin the year by sharing a video that I posted on YouTube earlier this month, it is an edited version of some interviews I did with Iris Productions:
I have been thinking about how we can all make things better for girls and have come up with a few suggestions I’d like to see you all build [...]
Posted in Advertising, Body Image, Feminism, Magazines, Media, Parents, Power of Words, Sexualisation of children on Nov 27th, 2008 1 Comment »
The poem featured in this YouTube clip is written and performed by Kate Wilson.
Have your girls produced poems, songs or art that explores women’s issues? If so, I’d love to see these.
P.S As promised – big shout out to the hundreds of shiny teen girls I have worked with this past fortnight. I [...]
Posted in Enlighten Education, Magazines, Media, Mobile Phones, Parents, Power of Words on Nov 7th, 2008 5 Comments »
This week I have been:
Inspired by singer Vanessa Amorosi as quoted in the Sun- Herald November 2nd. We are told she fell out with record execs after she refused to mime or take her clothes off: “It was that time and era, it was the Britney Spears days – it was all about sex sells. Of [...]
Posted in Body Image, Eating Disorders, Fashion Industry, Media, Women and Film on Sep 23rd, 2008 10 Comments »
Guest post by Enlighten Education NSW’s newest team member, Nikki Davis:
Looks like thin is no longer in. Skeletal is the new body ideal judging by the physiques of the female celebrities who are hot property right now.
I have to confess that I, and a number of my friends, were more than a little excited [...]
Posted in Body Image, Friendship, Media, Parents, Resources, Schools, Sexualisation of children on Aug 22nd, 2008 3 Comments »
This week I want to share extracts from “Teenage Mental health: girls shout out!”, the third research report recently released by GirlGuiding UK:
Teenage mental health: Girls shout out! is an investigation into girls’ experiences of both hard-to manage and challenging feelings and recognised mental health problems. The report considers a new generation of potential triggers for [...]
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