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March 2009

Videos We Love One of our EWP Advisory Board members offers this suggestion for positive body image videos: http://www.youthnoise.com/MyCauseIs/showcase.php?cause_id=161&act=1 Youthnoise is a youth activist's dream site. It's a place to explore issues you care about and take action with other young people around the world. Special Offer - 5 Button Collection Our March Special Offer is a 5 button collection for $10 (A $15 value.) All Special Offers include Free Shipping to the Continental United States and a Free Sample of rose scented body butter with your purchase of $10 or more. Check out all of our Special Offers here. New Cards! Remember to check out our New Free Printable Cards each month! March Cards. Want to receive monthly notification when new cards are available? Just email us with "subscribe-What's New!" in the subject.

February 2009

Where We Are We now have 169 registered Dressing Room Project Action Teams in the US, Canada, Ireland, the UK and West Africa! In the US, we only need 5 more states: Arkansas, Mississippi, Rhode Island, South Dakota and Wyoming. Check out our updated map. "Heart" Shirt Special Offer Extended Our "Worry About the Size of your Heart..." T-shirt is still on sale for $16 through at least the end of February. All Special Offers include Free Shipping to the Continental United States and a Free Sample of rose scented body butter with your purchase of $10 or more. Check out all of our Special Offers here. New Cards! Remember to check out our New Free Printable Cards each month! February Cards. Want to receive monthly notification when new cards are available? Just email us with "subscribe-What's New!" in the subject.

January 2009

Valentine Special Treat yourself or some other special person to our "Worry about the size of your heart, not the size of your body" t-shirt, available in sizes small through 2X at a 20% discount for a limited time. Valentine Special price is $16 (regularly $20.) All Special Offers include Free Shipping to the Continental United States and a Free Sample of rose scented body butter with your purchase of $10 or more. Check out all of our Special Offers here. You'd Be So Pretty If... - Dara Chadwick Dara Chadwick is a freelance journalist, mother and activist working to boost body image in the next generation of women. She says, "I grew up listening to my mom bemoan everything from the size of her thighs to the shape of her eyes. So you can imagine my dismay the first time someone exclaimed, 'You look just like your mother!' " Inspired to try and help other mothers find ways of encouraging their daughters to feel good about their bodies, Dara wrote a book which will be available in May of 2009 called You'd Be So Pretty If...: Teaching Our Daughters to Love Their Bodies -- Even When We Don't Love Our Own. For more about Dara and her upcoming book, check out http://www.youdbesoprettyif.com See all of our Sisters in Beauty Rebellion honorees New Cards! Remember to check out our New Free Printable Cards each month! January Cards. Want to receive monthly notification when new cards are available? Just email us with "subscribe-What's New!" in the subject.

December 2008

Who's Who of American Women A great big thank you to Marquis Who's Who, publishers of "Who's Who of American Women" for acknowledging our work through their recent generous gift to EWP of this year's special edition. This volume celebrates 50 years of honoring America's most notable women and will be a wonderful resource for us. We heartily recommend it for high school and college libraries. For more info, please visit http://www.marquiswhoswho.com/products/awprodinfo.asp To take advantage of a special 25% offer for friends of EWP & The Dressing Room Project, contact Karen at karen.bloom@marquiswhoswho.com StickerSisters.com - Ariel Fox StickerSisters.com strives to empower girls around the world through stickers, shoelaces, magnets, and other products with girl-positive messages. Creator Ariel Fox says, "I started Sticker Sisters at the end of eighth grade after the worst year of my life. Middle school can be a breeding ground for cliques and back-stabbing. After completing those horrible years, I decided I wanted to do something to help girls feel better about themselves." See all of our Sisters in Beauty Rebellion honorees GoodShop for the Holidays We won't ask you to choose between making a donation to EWP or using your money for holiday gifts. You can shop at stores through GoodShop.com and support EWP at the same time! Just select Emerging Women Projects as your charity and retailers donate up to 37% to us. Over 800 retailers from Amazon to Zappos are offering money saving coupons at Goodshop this holiday season. You can also shop for DRP products at our own Special Offers page. All Special Offers include Free Shipping to the Continental United States and a Free Sample of rose scented body butter with your purchase of $10 or more. New Cards! Remember to check out our New Free Printable Cards each month! December Cards. Want to receive monthly notification when new cards are available? Just email us with "subscribe-What's New!" in the subject.

November 2008

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.) See all of our Sisters in Beauty Rebellion honorees Holiday Season Special - Free Body Butter We've teamed up with EmuOilNaturally.com to offer you a Free Sample of rose scented Body Butter with your purchase of $10 or more from our Special Offers page while supplies last. All Special Offers include Free Shipping to the Continental United States too. What a deal! Link to Us Now you can easily link to TheDressingRoomProject.org, so go to it! Visit our new banner page and add us to your web site or blog to help spread the word. We appreciate it and the women and girls you help to discover us will thank you. New Cards! Remember to check out our New Free Printable Cards each month! November Cards This month’s collection features designers from Hawaii, New York, Tennessee, Vermont and California. Want to receive monthly notification when new cards are available? Just email us with "subscribe-What's New!" in the subject.

September 2008

Welcome to Ojibwe Girls One of our newest DRP Action Teams is a group of girls from the Bad River Tribe of Ojibwe Indians in Northern Wisconsin. We welcome you and look forward to your input! Click here to learn more about the Ojibwe. Special Offers We've got your favorite Dressing Room Project buttons available individually now! Free shipping in the Continental US. See all of our current Special Offers - now located under the "Goodies" menu item. New Cards! Remember to check out our New Free Printable Cards each month! September Cards Want to receive monthly notification when new cards are available? Just email us with "subscribe-What's New!" in the subject.

August 2008

DRP Supporter Spotlight - Womansong Womansong is a dynamic 75 woman chorus which promotes unity and social change. Proceeds from concerts fund their New Start program which helps women in transition. Two Womansong members, Jean Cassidy and Va Boyd, pleasantly surprised us by purchasing an ad for The Dressing Room Project in the concert program for an upcoming performance. We thank you both for this thoughtful gift! 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. Better than Barbie Check out this article about previous Sisters in Beauty Rebellion honoree, Denise DiJoseph and The Doll Project. New Cards! Remember to check out our New Free Printable Cards each month! August Cards Want to receive monthly notification when new cards are available? Just email us with "subscribe-What's New!" in the subject.

July 2008

'We believe beauty and wellness go hand in hand... With your senses soothed and your spirit calmed, you will discover what beauty comes with serenity.' - Sensibilities Spa We're Non Profit of the Month! EWP & The Dressing Room Project have been selected as Non Profit of the Month by Sensibilities Spa in Asheville, NC. They will display our information and encourage their customers to make donations at the store during the month of July. If you're local to Asheville, consider stopping in and showing your support! Sensibilities will offer discount coupons on their products and services to all who donate and will match total donations for the month. Women Quotes Needed We're collecting inspirational quotes by women for a Book of Days calendar project. Each page will have a daily Dressing Room Project Card and a poignant, uplifting or amusing quote. If you have a favorite quote to share, please email us with "Quote" in the subject line. Thanks!       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.) New Cards! Remember to check out our New Free Printable Cards each month! July Cards Want to receive monthly notification when new cards are available? Just email us with "subscribe-What's New!" in the subject.

June 2008

Oprah’s “O” Magazine - June issue Seen this month's "O" Magazine? The cover proclaims, "We're starting a Beauty Revolution!" Great idea! But don't look now, Oprah, the revolution has not only already been started... it's in full swing! We certainly love Oprah and all that she has done for women, but 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 front lines 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. So, each month EWP & The Dressing Room Project will be honoring one of our Sisters in Beauty Rebellion! Know someone who deserves to be acknowledged? We'd like to hear from you! Want to help tell the world about The Dressing Room Project? Go ahead! Add a link to your web site, brag about us on a blog or message board, send DRP eCards & post our Free Printable DRP cards! "Love Your Body Show - Sara Yates" This month we'd like to introduce you to Sara Yates, 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. DRP Action Teams: Only 7 states to go! We now have over 100 DRP Action Teams! We need Teams in 7 more states in the US to have all 50 states: Arkansas, Georgia, Maine, Mississippi, Rhode Island, South Dakota & Wyoming. Register as an Action Team Coordinator and help us reach this goal by the end of the year! E-Cards are back! Our apologies that the Send an E-Card feature was not operational for a bit. It's now working again. Please do let us know if you encounter any problems with the site. We can't fix it if we don't know it's broken! New Cards! Remember to check out our New Free Printable Cards each month! June Cards Want to receive monthly notification when new cards are available? Just email us with "subscribe-What's New!" in the subject.

May 2008

Saving Our Sisters EWP & The Dressing Room Project are proud to join forces with Peaceoholics to present an event for 150 at-risk teen girls in Washington DC. The Saving Our Sisters Summit will take place on May 21st and include speakers, interactive arts and workshops on self esteem, violence prevention and more. 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! Mother's Day Idea Here's a Mother's Day idea you can feel good about: Buy your Mother's Day gift online through the stores at GoodShop. Select Emerging Women Projects as your charity and participating stores will donate a percentage of the sale to us! (You can use Goodshop any time you need to make purchases online.) You can also use Goodsearch as your internet search engine and they will donate a penny a search to the charity of your choice. We appreciate it. (Every penny counts!) New Cards! Remember to check out our New Free Printable Cards each month! May Cards

April 2008

We will be exhibiting at Time For Our Power, a women's conference in June featuring Jane Fonda, Starhawk, Julia "Butterfly" Hill and other amazing women.

Curious about Dressing Room Project workshop presenter, Mimi Kates' music? Listen to Mimi's music.

April Special Offer: Cute little DRP magnets are here! 8 assorted magnets for just $10.  8 assorted magnets $10

You can still order packs of 100 assorted DRP buttons. Fundraise for your organization, school or girls' group. Sell these at $3 each for a profit of  $150. 100 assorted 2.25" DRP buttons $150

Free Shipping on Special Offers in the US. International orders;
please contact us prior to ordering.

Remember to check out our New Free Printable Cards each month! April Cards


DRP Spotlight



Thank you to our recent Dressing Room Project card designers in North Carolina & Vermont.

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March 1st 2008

Welcome to Alisa Fliss of HBO's documentary "Thin"!
We're excited to announce that Alisa Fliss from the Emmy nominated HBO documentary "Thin" has joined us to help in the creation of our Eating Disorders Resource for Families & Friends. Alisa is a courageous, beautiful and inspiring young woman. We are honored to work with her. If you are recovering/recovered from an Eating Disorder and would like to contribute from your experience by filling out our Questionnaire, email us with "Request Questionnaire" in the subject.

 

Special Offers


Finally! We now have the REMOVABLE DRP Card stickers that many of you have requested. These cards can be safely posted & removed/reused on any surface and leave no residue. See all of our current Special Offers. All Special Offers include FREE SHIPPING in the US. (International orders, please contact us first.)

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DRP Spotlight

New York: The Manhattanville College DRP Action Team, in conjunction with the Muslim Student Association, sponsored a discussion panel about body image across cultures. It included a screening of the documentary Killing Us Softly, a film on the effects of media/advertising on female body image. "Every seat was filled and some people were standing! We were so happy to sponsor this event." ~ Danielle Travalli, Manhattanville DRP Action Team Coordinator

 

January 9th 2008

NEDAW is Coming!
National Eating Disorders Awareness Week begins February 24th. Want to add a little fun to your NEDAW activities? We're offering packs of 100 Dressing Room Project buttons in assorted designs for $150.00 or packs of 50 buttons for $95.00 with FREE Shipping in the US. (International orders, please contact us first.) All orders must be received by February 4th to assure delivery before NEDAW.

100 buttons for $150:

50 buttons for $95:

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Dressing Room Project Spotlight
Asheville, North Carolina: T.H.E. Center for Disordered Eating thecenternc.org presented "Be Your Own Kind of Beautiful - Come As You Are", a community event promoting healthy bodies. Our DRP Cards graced the mirrors and brightened spirits.

New Cards
Check out our New Free Cards to print!

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SEPTEMBER 30th, 2007

New DRP Article
Read an article written by EWP's Founder and Director, Mimi Kates, in this month's issue of WNC Woman Magazine.

Walking Our Talk
We appreciate the input of our astute online store shoppers who pointed out that some of our shirts were not available larger than a size 12. Thanks to you, we have remedied the situation. Now all our apparel is offered in up to a size 2x. Our "Love Yourself" T shirt is available in up to a size 4x!

JULY 26th, 2007

Where we are Check out our new DRP Action Teams Map! Thanks to you, we now have 81 Teams around the US, Canada and Ireland. New Cards You can now download and print new DRP Cards. We’ll be offering different cards periodically. Check back often! New Shirt The Dressing Room Project online store is offering a new “You Are Beautiful!” women’s tank top for $17.99

JUNE 28, 2007

We're in Venus Diva!
The Dressing Room Project was featured in the June 2007 edition of
Venus Diva Online Magazine!


Our Eating Disorders Project
Are you someone who is recovering/has recovered from an eating disorder?
Would you like to help us with a new project?

In response to the many requests we've received, we're creating a personal resource for people who are concerned about how to help a friend/loved one with an eating disorder.

To contribute from your experience, please e-mail your answers to these two questions and include your first name, age and state/province.

1) What were the most helpful things anyone ever said/did to motivate you to start (and continue) your recovery?

2) What was least helpful? (what you would tell concerned friends/family to avoid saying/doing)

Any other comments/stories are welcome.