Thursday, May 02, 2002
Blogsisters Help “Turn Beauty Inside Out” -- Name TBIO First "Burning Issue"
Blogsville, May 2, 2002. Blogsisters knows women. A loosely and virtually joined group of more than 70 of the most articulate female webloggers on the Internet today, our online weblogs are linked to and read by netizens around the world. Collectively, we reflect the best potential of the World Wide Web to give voice to women who care, who think, who mirror a fundamental beauty that is irrelevant to age, jeans size, or cleavage.
Beginning with our support for the international campaign called Turn Beauty Inside Out, each month we are using our online network to shine the spotlight on some cause or issue aimed at eroding influences – in the media, business and industry, education, politics etc. – that diminish the spirit, the essential value, of women.
"Turn Beauty Inside Out" is this year’s focus of New Moon Publishing, which “produces media for every girl who wants her voice heard and her dreams taken seriously and for every adult who cares about girls…. Each year, New Moon focuses on a different form of media, with the goal of getting decision-makers to re-think, and take responsibility for, how they portray girls and women.”
New Moon Publishing’s “2002 Turn Beauty Inside Out” campaign highlights how girls and women are portrayed in film. “Too often girls and women are shown as dependent on their male counterparts for everything from safety to their own self-esteem,” they say. “This year we will send filmmakers the message that girls and women can, and should, be portrayed as strong, independent, fully developed characters. We will show filmmakers that they will enhance the overall appeal and bottom line of their movies by creating solid female roles and empowering story-lines.”
Blogsisters echoes and pumps up the volume on this message from New Moon Publishing. We mark May 15 as “Turn Beauty Inside Out Day” and urge all of our readers check out campaign’s site, including their startling facts. We hope that both the men and women who support Blogsisters will post their own take on “Turn Beauty Inside Out,” the Blogsisters’ Burning Issue for May, and the first in a series of causes we will highlight in the coming months.
About Blog Sisters
Blog Sisters is the first team blog to feature women in frightening numbers. Unlike other team blogs, Blog Sisters does not seek to limit itself or its members by stating its purpose or naming the blog after a book. With annual sales of approximately $12, Blog Sisters serves a readership in more than 170 countries around the world, give or take 120. Men of rare breeding read it in full public view; other men read it in secret, which is okay too. Committed to the principles of Sustainable Development, Blog Sisters' more than 70 loosely joined members seek to balance life, learning, personal and family relationships, and their day jobs with blogging. For further information, visit the Blog Sisters website at http://blogsisters.blogspot.com or email the CEO at ewriter@bellsouth.net.
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