What is Dynamo Girl Media?
Dynamo Girl Media is committed to creating girl-positive, sex-positive, body-positive content for girls and their families. In our society, we cannot escape the powerful impact media has on kids and adults, so why don’t we create media that has a POSITIVE impact? We do not need to passively accept the television, film and social media that our children consume.
What is our mission?
Dynamo Girl Media embraces a mission to create content that shows girls of all different shapes, sizes and colors from different backgrounds grappling with the highs and lows of friendship, love and family. Rather than perpetuating the “mean girl” narrative that girls are fed from their toddler years, girls need new models for how to constructively face challenges in their relationships, in their school life and on the sports field. Let’s use the power of media to our advantage to empower the next generation of girls.
Why are we creating Dynamo Girl Media?
More than 50% of teenage girls spend 8 or more hours a day on media. There are organizations across the country that are researching, analyzing and advising about how girls need to become critical consumers of the destructive media that leads to their low self-esteem, sexualization and body shaming. Beyond guarding girls against it and teaching them to be critical consumers of this media, we need to MAKE the kind of media that offers girls another paradigm.
Vanessa Kroll Bennett
Vanessa Kroll Bennett is the founder of Dynamo Girl, whose mission is to build girls’ self-esteem through physical activity. She speaks to organizations and runs workshops that address the challenges girls and women face in today’s world. Vanessa is dedicated to creating positive change in areas like girls involvement in athletics, girls’ feelings about their bodies and girls’ ability to keep themselves safe. If she could accomplish one thing in her life, it would be to eliminate the term “mean girl” from our culture.
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Dynamo Girl Media is part of the Dynamo Girl Network.