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Sisters in Beauty Rebellion!

Long before Oprah's Beauty Revolution and Dove's Campaign for Real Beauty, many smaller organizations and inspired individuals have been hard at work on the frontlines to help shift cultural attitudes towards beauty!

Most of us just don't have the marketing resources of a large corporation like Unilever (Dove's parent company) or those of Oprah to make ourselves known to the world.

We believe in supporting each other in our common mission, so EWP & The Dressing Room Project would like to honor our Sisters in Beauty Rebellion!

hangPROUD.com - Diane Prefontaine and Carla Alpert

hangPROUD.com is an exclusive place where girls and women can connect to find inspiration, build friendships and learn how to refocus their inner dialog to live a powerful and meaningful life.

Co-founders Diane Prefontaine (left) and Carla Alpert (right) founded PROUD Girls Inc. in March 2007 because of their shared passion and mission to change the lives of girls and women across the globe.

They encourage women to embrace their unique beauty and individual strengths and to use their power to make significant differences in their lives, communities and the world.

The site offers a MySpace-style community complete with their unique PROUDradio feature where members can create playlists and listen to tunes as they interact. (Dressing Room Project founder, Mimi Kates is among the musicians featured and hangPROUD also recently published an illuminating article about her.)

Dancing from the Heart - Jo Cobbett and Colleen Perry

Dancing from the Heart classes are the combined effort of Jo Cobbett and Colleen Perry in Santa Monica, California. Using dance and writing, they help women to rediscover their bodies "as the source of divine pleasure."



Jo Cobbett has been leading groups in Los Angeles and around the world since 1995. Trained in a variety of therapeutic modalities, her passion is creative expression and she offers weekly "ecstatic dance" classes.



Colleen Perry is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist whose mission is to care for, nurture, and enhance the self worth of women. She envisions a world where women feel joyful about living their lives knowing that their beauty and power lies within.

      Demandit.org - Bethany Brownholtz

Bethany Brownholtz is a young woman committed to discouraging the objectification of women in advertising and helping connect concerned activists. She created this social change web site when she was a college student. Her tag line is "Demand Reality. Demand Respect."

On "Bethany's Blacklist" she offers examples of particularly disrespectful advertisements with a link underneath each to contact the company responsible and let them know what you think.

"I feel that our culture has gone too far. I've had it with sexually explicit ads saturated with pressures to be thin and to be conventionally beautiful", says Bethany. "We need to think about the implications of these images for women, and men too. Media literacy is so important. Media is everywhere and we need to learn to be discerning."

Warning: Some material on this site may be shocking or offensive. The selected advertisements are intended to make us think and to initiate discussion and social change action. Not recommended for those under the age of 13 (although most featured ads have appeared in readily accessible magazines or in public places.)

Love Your Body Show - Sara Yates

Sara Yates is an artist who created the Love Your Body Show celebrating body diversity. She says expressive art helped her to heal from anorexia. Sara is now compiling a book of artwork and writing called Making Peace with the Body and is accepting submissions.

The Doll Project

Here's an inspired pilot program we support: The Doll Project is a Barbie makeover program designed to promote girls' self exploration and self expression.

Under the guidance of The Doll Project creator, Denise DiJoseph, girls will have the opportunity to use art materials to recreate donated Barbie dolls in a way that reflects who they are.

Denise, an artist and concerned activist, says The Doll Project is "an empowerment program to show the girls how to be uniquely individual and not a carbon copy of the idealistic image."

Her first programs in September '08 will be offered free to girls in homeless shelters.

Want to help? Mail your unwanted Barbies IN ANY CONDITION to:

Denise DiJoseph
The Doll Project
3 Ravine Road
Frazer, PA 19355-1941

Tell her the folks at The Dressing Room Project sent you!