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ORGS + WEB SITES
Angelfire
www.angelfire.com
Learn how to build your own Web site and host it for free. This site has everything you need to get started, including a step-by-step beginner's guide.

Bamboozled
www.bamboozled.org
Teen-produced site that aims to combat the negative stereotypes of youth by creatively, intelligently, and honestly portraying their lives.

Blogger
www.blogger.com
A blog gives you your own voice on the Web. Learn how to create your own blog so you can publish your thoughts, writing, or stories about the real lives of girls.

BeyondMedia Education
773-973-3367
www.beyondmedia.org
Equips girls with the skills to document and communicate their stories, serve as educators and role models for others, influence public policy, and generate social transformation.

Bust magazine
www.bust.com
With the tagline "women who have something to get off their chests," Bust is fiercely busts down female stereotypes and is a bold alternative to mainstream magazines. Check out the Girl Wide Web section for links to more girl-centric zines.

Center for Media Literacy
310-581-0260
www.medialit.org
Nonprofit educational organization that provides leadership, public education, professional development, and educational resources nationally. Works to help citizens, especially the young, develop critical thinking and media-production skills needed to live fully in the 21st century media culture.

Culture of Modeling
www.cultureofmodeling.com
Helps girls think about where their interest in modeling comes from and discusses the reality behind these body role models.

Femina
www.femina.com
A directory of female friendly sites on the WebÑincludes everything from girl organizations to right groups.

Global Action Project
(212) 59-9577
www.global-action.org
Media arts and leadership training for young people living around the world, who get the tools and training to create thought-provoking media on local and international issues that concern them.

The Girls, Women + Media Project
www.mediaandwomen.org
Examines how pop culture and media represent, affect, employ, and serve girls, and how you can take action to promote responsibility and respect. Plus, the site includes tons of resources to learn more about girls and the media.

Just Think
(415) 561-2900
www.justthink.org
Teaches teens to understand, evaluate, and create media messages, and how you can impact local and global communities with your own media.

Listen Up!
212-725-7000
www.pbs.org/merrow/listenup
A youth media network that connects young video producers to resources, support, and projects in the field to help create an authentic youth voice in the media.

Media Watch

Get info on challenging abusive and biased images commonly found in the media.

Media Awareness Network
www.media-awareness.ca
A watchdog group for media stereotyping. Go to the Media Issues section and check out Stereotyping and then the Girls and Women category for some really interesting articles that'll make you angry.

National Council for Research on Women
212-785.7335
www.ncrw.org
Supporting women and girls in how they're represented in media, trends and studies around the world. Check out the MisInformation Clearinghouse and their links under Resources.

Wellesley College
www.wellesley.edu/Health/BodyImage
Go to the "what you can do" section for tips on how to protest fashion companies that use dangerously thin girls in their ads. The site even has a sample complaint letter.

Wiretap
415-284-1420
www.alternet.org/wiretapmag
An independent news source by and for socially conscious youth.

Women's ENews
www.womensenews.org
Covers local and global news about issues affecting the lives of girls and women.

Youth Entertainment Studios (YES)
757-545-8766
www.yesamerica.org
Gives teens a safe place to develop their own media, including music, video, Web, and print.

Youth Radio
youthradio.org/index.shtml
Gives teens hands-on training to learn the basics of broadcasting.

BOOKS
Branded:The Buying and Selling of Teenagers
by Alissa Quart
How companies bombard teens with marketing that "saps them of individuality and imagination" to get them to not only buy products, but be products.

Can't Buy My Love: How Advertising Changes the Way We Think and Feel Deadly Persusasion: Why Women and Girls Must Fight the Addictive Power of Advertising
by Jean Kilbourne
Both books expose how advertising negatively shapes the way girls and women feel about themselves, what they want, and the way they treat themselves. See the author's Web site for more resources: www.jeankilbourne.com.

Ms. Magazine
www.msmagazine.com
Launched in 1971, Ms. was founded by feminist icons such as Gloria Steinem and Pat Carbine. Today the magazine is still outspoken and doesn't just write about girls' and women's struggles for equality and political power, but leads them to take action.

Teen Voices magazine
www.teenvoices.com
This magazine, written by and for teen girls, is all about building respect from the inside out. Visit the Web site to learn about how to contribute an article.

Where the Girls Are: Growing Up Female with the Mass Media
by Susan J. Douglas
A look at how American media has portrayed women over the past 50 years.

llustration by Catherine LePage © Free Spirit Publishing Inc. 2005

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