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Pink stinks

Pink stinks 2  Pinkstinks is a 'campaign and social enterprise that challenges the culture of pink that invades every aspect of girls lives.' Their current website is for parents and aims to raise awareness of the toxic gender stereotypes that are promoted to girls in the media and celebrity culture and what can be done to combat them. They are in the process of creating a website for children called cooltobe.me where they'll tell the stories of alternative role models for girls that will 'inspire motivate and enthuse girls about the possibilities and opportunities open to them.' Pinkstinks has been started by twin sisters Abi and Emma Moore and was born when Abi was working for CNN. She was filming a scientist called Naomi Halas who was pioneering a new way of treating cancer, but at the time the woman dominating the news was Paris Hilton who had just been released from prison. You can download some of the stats and research that has inspired their project here, and you can find their t-shirts, mugs and bags here.

Posted on October 16, 2009 at 08:45 AM in girls |

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AManda

I love it!!

Posted by: AManda | October 16, 2009 at 09:56 PM

Karen Turnbull

fabulous! We need more of this. And its not just children who need this, I think we all need a bit of encouragement in this vein!

Posted by: Karen Turnbull | October 17, 2009 at 11:20 AM

Sharon Prior

This is a great website. I encourage all Sophia members to have a look at it and get their email.

Posted by: Sharon Prior | October 19, 2009 at 10:32 PM

Jo

Love this. Have been thoroughly absorbed and challenged by this website. Will look forward to receiving their e-mails.

Posted by: Jo | October 20, 2009 at 09:10 PM

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