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Beautyism-Challenging Resources:

 

Beautyism is prejudice multiplied by power used by persons with dominant culture appearances against persons who do have nondominant appearances that excludes them from individual, cultural, and systemic resources (Chen-Hayes, Ockerman, & Mason, 2014). To help close achievement (and opportunity and attainment) gaps, I've highlighed in dark orange below resources (including evidence-based classroom curricula) that every School Counselor can share with K-12 stakeholders via their School Counseling Program Advisory Councils, School Counseling Core Curriculum classroom lessons, planning for every student, group and individual counseling, and School Counseling Program website resource tabs for students, educators, and families:

 

  • #Beautyism Hashtag for organizing to affirm persons with nondominant appearances and those who are challenging appearance-based oppression
  • #BodyLove: Hashtag for singer Mary Lambert's song, video, and campaign challenging beautyism http://www.bodylovecampaign.com/
  • #Looksism Hashtag for organizing to affirm persons with nondominant appearances and those who are challenging appearance-based oppression
  • About-Face www.about-face.org
  • Adios Barbie: The body image site for everybody www.adiosbarbie.com
  • Body Positive: Boosting body image at any weight www.bodypositive.com
  • The Council on Size & Weight Discrimination www.cswd.org
  • Eating Disorders (Research-based information and resources from National Institute of Mental Health) www.nimh.nih.gov
  • FAT!SO?: For people who don't apologize for their size fatso.com
  • International Size Acceptance Association www.size-acceptance.org
  • Let's Talk about it: Love Your Body Campaign www.loveyourbody.nowfoundation.org/letstalk
  • Love Your Body Day www.loveyourbody.nowfoundation.org
  • National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance  www.naafaonline.com
  • National Organization for Albinism and Hypopigmentation www.albinism.org
  • The Scar Project: Portraits of young breast cancer survivors (breast cancer is the top cause of cancer deaths in women ages 15-40) raising consciousness of early-onset breast cancer, fundraising, and helping young survivors see their scars, faces, figures, and experiences through an honest and empowering lens. www.thescarproject.org
  • Sex, Stereotypes, and Beauty: The ABCs and Ds of Commercial Images of Women (video/presentation) http://loveyourbody.nowfoundation.org/presentations/SexStereotypesBeauty/index.html
  • SPARK Movement: Girl-fueled activist movement ending commodified sexualization of women and girls in media www.sparksummit.com
  • The Unknown Soldier: Raising consciousness of thousands of young wounded USA veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan wars seeing photographs of their scars, faces, and experiences in a new empowering lens www.unknownsoldier.org
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