Body rEvolution

Fantastic post on the Women's Center Blog by Alex about our activism project last week!! Enjoy!! http://uiwomenscenter.wordpress.com/2012/03/10/ui-womens-center-body-revolution/

Body rEvolution http://vimeo.com/38295515 In honor of National Women's History Month, Body rEvolution invited students to participate in our newest activism/art project. The intent was to develop a multimedia...

Here's a great activism project to share!

Dear VS,
Your company mails out 400+ million of these catalogs to homes each year, and we cannot escape your commercials or your storefront windows. Your models are Photoshopped as an industry standard, and when we see them strutting the catwalk THEY even tell us they are on liquid diets for weeks before the shows. You claim to empower women, even as you sell us SO SHORT of our potential. I'll be slapping these truthful sticky notes on your lies as often as I can. http://www.beautyredefined.net/victorias-little-secret/

Love,
Lexie of Beauty Redefined

TODAY from 11-1 in the Idaho Commons! Participate in our Projection + Photography = rEvolution event for National Eating Disorders Awareness Week. Developed by Aleah Starr, an eating disorders survivor: “I am a CANVAS. Every day society projects certain standards, messages, and images UPON ME. Society tells me how I should look, act, and feel. So when you ask me WHO I AM, I don’t always know what to tell you. But I am learning to step away from these projections, and use them to make a statement of MY OWN.”

Come to "Got S*x?" next Thursday in the Women's Center at 5:30! BrE Intern meeting to follow the presentation. See you Thursday!