Special Offer for local businesses and organizations: For every donation to our REPRESENT. MEdia Schools program over $50, we will enter your business or organization in a draw to win a year of advertising from Ottawa Kiosk, a $2,000 value! $100 donations will receive 3 entries in the draw. Once you have made your donation, email amanda@media-action-media.com to enter the draw.

Why Dove’s “Real Beauty Sketches” Video Makes Me Uncomfortable… and Kind of Makes Me Angry

Check out our response to Dove’s campaign on the REPRESENT. project blog!

Whether her political accomplishments made significant strides for other women leaders remains the subject of fierce debate. But one truth is evident: The Iron Lady was a political game-changer.

Reflecting on who Canada’s game-changing female politicos might be, we tapped three of our favourite political junkies for their picks. Visit our REPRESENT. blog to see what they had to say!

The overall finding is that women are still underrepresented in American media. When we are represented, we are still stereotyped and sexualized, more often depicted as unemployed in comparison to men, and rarely portrayed in STEM careers or in high ranking positions like CEO or President.

Read the full article about these findings at the SPARK Movement website.

Download the Women’s Day event poster for more information.

Interested in holding your own REPRESENT. event? Download our action kit to find out how to get started!

MAM partnered with Toronto’s Riverdale Immigrant Women’s Centre and Unison Health and Community Services to run the project.

Each weekly Finding Words workshops included critical discussions on how media represents young, racialized and newcomer women, how media representations affect their understandings of themselves and the stories they tell.

Participants shared funny and inspiring personal stories on an array of topics including female role models, favourite foods and places, tips for new Canadians and what Canada means for them. These stories were then expressed through digital storytelling/audio recording clips, podcasts and other media.

“The young women who participated in this program walked away empowered and so confident in their ability to create and share their own stories through different communications tools,” Finding Words project coordinator Toni Francis said.

“Not only was this an incredible media literacy and capacity-building project, but also an opportunity for young women to get together in safe spaces to tell stories, make new friends, eat and have fun!”

To see the final products of the Finding Words workshops or for more information on the project, visit newwordsnewvoices.wordpress.com

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The report reveals that only 17 per cent of the 130 films released in 2010/2011 were directed by women; and a mere 21 per cent had female screenwriters. The results for visible minority and First Nations women were much worse, with only one director and two screenwriters. Women in View chose to focus on directing and screenwriting in their inaugural report because of the impact of these positions play in shaping the final film story, and the employment of others on the film production crew.

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Ottawa, ON – 6 November 2012 – Media Action Média (MAM) is pleased to announce the completion of this year’s new media-arts and storytelling program, Finding Words. The Finding Words program empowers young, racialized newcomer and immigrant women by training them to produce media content with realistic portrayals and narratives, inspired by their own experiences.

For more information, please read our press release, or visit our blog New Words New Voices.