Miss Representation is a documentary that came out in 2011, and it is all about feminism. More specifically, it is about women and their portrayal in the media, so naturally it was right up our alley. This film is narrated by a woman named Jennifer Newsom, a soon to be mother, and a survived of…
GoldieBlox
by 19janeb
GoldieBlox is a toy company, invented by Debbie Sterling, with the goal of getting young girls building. The idea behind this now incredibly popular toy/creation, was that girls have very limited options of what toys they can play with. The only toys that are made for little girls are princesses and barbies and dress up.…
Visit to the Paley Center for Media
by 19janeb
On January 6th, My Social Justice group and I went to the Paley Center for Media. For those of you who don’t know, The Paley Center is basically a museum, but instead of having “stuff”, they have media and online documents (old news reports, tv shows and clips, ect). We signed up for a class…
On beauty film review
by 19janeb
On Saturday, November 15th, my social justice group met with a young woman named Stephanie, who took us to see On Beauty, a film staring Rick Guidotti, a former fashion photographer and now a different kind of photographer. Rick quit his high profile job when he realized how insignificant he felt while photographing these perfect…
Interview with Esmé Edwards
by 19janeb
On December 18th, my Social Justice group met with Esmé Edwards, a senior at our High School, Elisabeth Irwin. The reason we met with Esmé is because we knew that she had been very involved with our topic, and she had a lot of knowledge on it. We sat down with her in our classroom…
Interview with Martha Brooks
by 19janeb
On November 19th, my Social Justice group met with a woman I know very well; my mother, Martha Brooks. She is the Executive Vice President/ Executive Creative Director at an ad agency called McCann. She runs all the U.S. offices for L’Oreal Paris. To make a long title short, she basically just has a pretty…
Interview with Liba Bray
by 19janeb
On Thursday, October 30th my group met with esteemed writer Liba Bray,, and author of book Beauty Queens, in Little Red’s library. She was initially at our school because she was interviewing a few students, my social justice group included, about books and sexism. After she interviewed us, we asked if we could interview her.…
