AboutFace.org
About-Face promotes positive self-esteem in girls and women of all ages, sizes, races and backgrounds through a spirited approach to media education, outreach and activism.
Goals:
About-Face promotes positive self-esteem in girls and women of all ages, sizes, races and backgrounds through a spirited approach to media education, outreach and activism.
Goals:
- To encourage a healthy skepticism about media images and the messages of popular culture
- To empower young people to feel confident about their individuality, their abilities and their bodies
- To encourage individuals to identify and give voice to their opinions
- To educate parents to empower their daughters and enlighten their sons
- To identify companies that show women in unrealistic, distorted or vulnerable poses and hold them responsible for their negative imagery
- To endorse companies that promote diverse and healthy images
- To educate on subjects of sexism, lookism and the obsession with weight in our culture
- To create alternative images through posters and art installations
- To educate through lectures and special programs in schools
- To use playful and original ideas to generate cultural change
- To promote appreciation of diversity and gender equality in schools
- To provide a forum for discourse and serve as a resource to researchers, educators and policy makers as well as popular media and cultural trendsetters.
