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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?

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.

It's taken me some time to recover and catch up from the NOW conference in Michigan. My mom and grandma came to help me at the booth. We're spread across the country so it was great to make a mini family reunion out of the conference.

I met cool feminists of all ages and had a great time. But I have to say that I was a little disappointed with the workshops I went to this year.

One was on "Sex, stereotypes, and beauty." They pointed out a lot of unbelievable stuff out there for little kids and adult women. Like did you know that Disney is now making princess wedding dresses for brides? They also showed a onesie (pink of course) that has a personal ad on it that says "Adorable future model seeks attractive boy with wealthy father. Call me: 123-CUTE." Jeez the baby's barely born and already she's having beauty expectations placed on her ("future model") and being told to find a man.

So in this workshop they spent pretty much the whole time pointing out examples like these. A few examples were good to get everyone into it and riled up. But that would have been plenty. It didn't seem like they were prepared to speak to a group of feminists who are already pretty aware of the problem. They only started to answer the question "So, what do we do?" in the last five minutes. And that was a very brief, standard "write letters to companies, get involved with things like love your body day, be a mentor" spiel. Where's the mention of the Allegheny County Girls as Grantmakers who organized a girlcott against Abercrombie & Fitch's offensive t-shirts? How about all the ways About-Face suggests taking action? How about some This Insults Women stickers?

I don't mean to rag on this one workshop, because this seemed to be a problem in several sessions--they would leave the making change part until the end and then run out of time. Even in a session called "Vision. Action Justice. Your Campaign for Change," some of the presenters started going off on tangents and they never even got to creating the "concrete plans" that the workshop description promised.

Those workshops are over, but I want to get the discussion going. What concrete actions have you done or thought of doing to make change?

I'm writing from the Sticker Sisters booth at the NOW conference. Hooray for wireless internet! We're having a blast here. So many cool people have come by and we've been able to get to a couple great workshops. And we unveiled the brand new Sticker Sisters t-shirts. They're hot off the press (no joke--I just got some of them a few days ago and more are being printed as I write this). Everyone's been snapping them up here! Don't worry--they'll be available online in a couple weeks.

Since there are so many women here they converted the men's bathroom into a women's bathroom. There's something kind of fun about changing your tampon in the men's bathroom. And we couldn't resist adding a Visit Our Power Room sticker to the sign!

Okay, I've gotta turn my attention back to the table. But I'll write more later!