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Love
Your Body Day is Wednesday, October 19 Women and girls spend
billions of dollars every year on cosmetics, fashion, magazines and diet
aids. These industries can't use negative images to sell their products
without our assistance. Together, we can fight back. |
Hot Off the Press: The 2011 Posters Are Here! The Let's Talk About
It
project is encouraging women to speak up and speak out about body image -- on
camera. It is a unique video campaign, providing a space for women and girls
to talk about struggles and success with body image. Read the press release. If you're on Twitter,
you can follow NationalNOW and use the hashtag
#lybd to talk about Love Your Body Day and the things you are doing to
celebrate! You can also find NOW on Facebook, where we also have a
Love Your Body Cause. Now
Showing! This presentation
illustrates and describes how advertisers and the media enforce unrealistic
beauty standards, sexual ideals and gender stereotypes that girls and women
are expected to follow. What is the impact of these images, and what can YOU
do? Find
out. |