Francesca's Thoughts

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20/01/2015

Saving Face: Girls Girls Girls (and everyone else)

The first question I asked last week when I started the Saving Face project was about gender inequality in the skin care industry. Things might be a bit different for children and preteens now, but here is a brief summary of how I understood things in primary school: Girls wore products and makeup as a rite of Continue reading

Complaints, DISCUSS., Indifferent Ignorance, Internet, January 2015, Saving Face Series, Videos

consumers, cosmetics industry, gender inequality, Indifferent Ignorance, make up, peer pressure, race inequality, racism, Rookie Mag, Saving Face, sexism, social standards, Tumblr, Verizon
23/09/2014

Scoffed at the HeForShe Campaign? Right, Let’s Talk

If you haven’t seen it already, the next thing you should do today is watch the entirety of Emma Watson’s UN HeForShe speech. There has been a lot of news articles quoting it, but some of the most interesting parts weren’t cherry-picked as far as I remember, and watching and listening coveys her emotions a Continue reading

DISCUSS., Fuckin’ Idiots, Government and Politics, Internet, September 2014, Videos

Emma Watson, equality, feminism, gender equality, gendered marketing, girls living as boys in Afgahnistan, HeForShe, India acid attacks, Indifferent Ignorance, make up, social constructs, UN