Kim Coles Rocks a "Girls Rock" Tee

The Love Your Body Day event I went to was lots of fun again this year. Actress-comedian Kim Coles was the host and she stopped by the Sticker Sisters table to buy a Girls Rock shirt. Cool!

There were performances, speakers and a fashion show of REAL women. Plus there were massages, but I can never get away from the Sticker Sisters table long enough to get one! Maybe next year...

Love Your Body Day 2008

I'm all about being happy with your body everyday, but it's still fun to have one day a year to focus on it.

I'll have a Sticker Sisters table at the annual Love Your Body Day celebration in West Hollywood tomorrow. If you're in the neighborhood, stop by! It's free and there'll be music, comedy, and a "real women" fashion show. And the icing on the cake is free massages and self-defense lessons. Nice!

Love Your Body Day
Sunday, October 12, 2008
12:00 - 4:00 p.m.

West Hollywood Park Auditorium
647 N. San Vicente Boulevard
West Hollywood, CA 90069

Check out my recap of last year's event.

Also here are 10 Ways to Celebrate Your Body Sticker Sisters Style.

More about the Love Your Body Day campaign.

NOW Conference 2008

Next week I'll be heading to DC for my annual family reunion at the NOW Conference. For the past few years my mom and grandma have met up with me at the conference to help run the Sticker Sisters booth. This year it'll be an even bigger reunion since I'm from DC. My aunt, cousins, and even my dad have promised to come by and lend a hand. If you're at the conference stop by the booth and say hi!

Blast from the past (with pictures!):

NOW Conference 2007 Report

Overheard and Seen at the NOW Conference 2006

Greetings from the NOW conference in Albany NY

Happy 35th Anniversary Roe v. Wade!

Lots of great stuff going on today to celebrate the 35th anniversary of the Supreme Court decision to legalize abortion.

Check out all the bloggers taking part in NARAL's Blog for Choice Day.

Also take a look at Planned Parenthood's Wall of Protest where you can "express your outrage over the Federal Abortion Ban." Beware it loads pretty slow. But I guess that means lots of people have contributed images, so slow is a good thing. The one thing I don't really understand is the images of people's pets up there. I mean I've never asked my cat if she's pro-choice, but maybe I should get on that!

I know there's a lot of talk about how Roe v. Wade is being eroded and reproductive choice is in jeopardy, but I've never felt like young people were really behind that. I mean we've grown up our whole lives with Roe v. Wade. I try not to pay too much attention to polls, but I was kind of freaked out to read that teens and young adults seem less pro-choice than older generations.

I read this today in the LA Times:

Looking specifically at teens, a Gallup survey in 2003 found that 72% called abortion morally wrong, and 32% believed it should be illegal in all circumstances. Among adults surveyed that year, only 17% backed a total ban.

The article talks about antiabortion clubs and summer camps for middle and high school students. Really? Antiabortion summer camp?! I had no idea.

Well we better keep fighting. Here's to many more choice filled years!

Love Your Body Day Recap

Hollywood NOW's Love Your Body Day celebration was really cool. I can't believe I forgot to bring a camera though! If anyone has pictures, I'd love to post some.

I think the highlight of the event for me was getting to see Joy Nash perform her "Fat Rant" live.

If you haven't seen her video yet, check it out...


What did you do for Love Your Body Day?

P.S. Everyday should be Love Your Body Day. So what did you do today?

10 Ways to Celebrate Your Body Sticker Sisters Style

October 18, 2007 is the National Organization for Women Foundation’s tenth annual Love Your Body Day.

10 Ways to Celebrate Love Your Body Day:
(adapted from the NOW Foundation's suggestion list with a little Sticker Sisters twist)

1. Go to a Love Your Body Day event or create your own. Sticker Sisters will be taking part in Hollywood NOW’s event.

2. Get some blank t-shirts and decorate them with body positive messages. Or proclaim Action Not Glamour or Girls Rock with a Sticker Sisters tee.

3. Don’t buy products from companies that use negative images of women in their ads. Send them letters letting them know how you feel about their ads.

4. Get a group together and go paste This Insults Women, This insults Girls and This Insults Everyone stickers on everything you find offensive.

5. Listen to positive music that makes you feel good about yourself and your body. Try India.Arie’s “Video,” Northern State’s “Girl For All Seasons ,”and Salt-N-Pepa’s “Ain’t Nothin’ But A She Thing” to get you started.

6. Write down some things you like about yourself. Write yourself a poem or a love letter. If you’re having trouble getting started, our Up Words Girls magnetic poetry kit will inspire your creative juices.

7. Get moving for fun not to fit into a smaller size. Spice up your running shoes with some Girl Power or Action Not Glamour shoelaces and take a long walk, do some bedroom dancing, shoot some hoops, whatever!

8. Throw an indulgence party where everyone wears whatever is most comfortable, eats whatever they want, talks openly, and guilt is left at the door. Pick up some Sticker Sisters party favors for your guests.

9. Don’t talk about your weight or weigh yourself (especially in front of young girls).

10. Spread the word about Love Your Body Day to your family and friends. The NOW Foundation even has some e-cards you can send.

Lady Party 911

If you're in the LA area, come check out the Sticker Sisters booth at Lady Party 911. It's Tuesday, September, 11th at the Echoplex. Lady Party is a really cool event put on by this new organization called OBJECT.

The night will start out with a conversation that they're calling "Punishing the Princess: The Media's Obsession with Condemning Paris, Lindsay, and Britney." It'll feature comediennes Jessi Klein and Jessica Chaffin, sex educator Nina Hartley, author Jen Sincero, and neo-feminist philosopher Tracy McMillan. Then later in the night hip-hop trio Yo Majesty and dance-punk rockers Von Iva will perform.