Voices We Love: Girls Preaching Feminism

FCKH8 just released a very affective video where little girls swear a lot and throw gender inequalities in our faces.  It is awesome!  Children are a great way to sell a product or a scary movie but in an advocacy campaign, it’s genius.  We have watched this video so many times at Project Kinect.  For every $15 t-shirts sold, FCKH8 will give $5 to other charities helping to fight gender inequalities.  The two shirts offered are “Girls just want to have FUNdamental rights.” and “This is what a feminist looks like.” You can also keep up with them on Facebook.

Potty-Mouthed Princesses Drop F-Bombs for Feminism by FCKH8.com from FCKH8.com on Vimeo.

 


We wanted to add the video on Domestic Violence…….

Sites We Love: Funny or Die

Comedy is SO IMPORTANT for Positive Social Change.  It brings everyone to a common level and makes difficult topics more easy to discuss.  Last night, Russell Brand was on The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell.  They were discussing Brand’s new book, Revolution. Brand is best known for his comedy and acting, but more and more he is being seen through an activist’s lens.  Revolution definitely places him in that category.

  • Tool: Find Comedy in your activism.

A major point last night though was that Comedy is necessary to get everyone to a level where we can come together to see real change.  It is how an actual, real working democracy will begin.  Project Kinect understands that we all must find common ground to produce the type of social change we need to thrive.  One of the best websites that uses comedy and satire is Funny or Die.

This last week, an Andy Bush directed sketch was uploaded to the website called Here’s How You’re Getting F***ed. It has Adam Shankman and Brandon T. Jackson in it and makes fun of how unjust to minorities our society is.  It is funny and makes room to have a better rounded conversation.

We listed that video below, as well as some other videos we feel really “Say Something”.  Happy Watching! #WAAI

Orgs We Love: Girls Inc.

It is pretty remarkable that nonprofit and social change organizations are getting advertising spots during On Demand shows.  One of those organizations is Girls Inc. Girls Inc. inspires all girls to be strong, smart, and bold, providing more than 138,000 girls across the U.S. and Canada with life-changing experiences and real solutions to the unique issues girls face. It is backed by Oprah Winfrey and can be found through out the country.  One of its strengths is that it has a model where 88% of its expenses is for the participants.  Additionally, it is not associated with a larger organization so it does not discriminate where different chapters find their home.

Here is the ad that can be seen during On Demand television.

Video of the Week

Currently we all need to just be better. We must be better in order to establish sustainability for humankind as well as all living things on this planet.  We have to give a shit. This Alanis Morissette song from the 90’s does a great job of describing the same frustrations that we are currently dealing with.

Two articles have come up recently that support my thought process.  One is “The Day a Dozen Parents and Children Killed a Baby Shark for a Selfie“. The other was a recent blog post by the Huffington Post entitled, “Ferguson is All of Us“. Both do a great job of sharing how we all, no matter what we already currently do, can do better.

Video of the Week

For humans, it is so easy to hide.  Avoidance and detachment of other humans can happen easy and becomes more simple the more attached to technology we become.  The problem with seclusion is that not only do people become void of us and us them, but we miss out on each other’s passion and art.  This video by Miike Snow, “Black and Blue”, demonstrates how better it is to be active in the world instead of just hiding away and selfishly keeping our greatness to ourselves.

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Video of the Week

Sia is always a favorite of ours.  This week we want to share her video Chandelier with you.  It displays a girl dancing a solo in not very desirable circumstances. In the bleakness, she dances and connects with herself to make the situation better. Sometimes that is what we need to do.