Ypulse Interview: Jamia Wilson, Women's Media Center
Today's Ypulse Interview is with Jamia Wilson, Vice President of Programs at the Women's Media Center and one of the leading forces behind the SPARK Summit held here in New York last Friday.
From "Glee" in GQ to Miley on MTV, the effort to mobilize an intergenerational movement against sexualization of girls in the media [SPARK stands for Sexualization Protest: Action, Resistance, Knowledge] comes at a poignant pop cultural moment. To discuss that context and hear more about the issues raised at the daylong event of workshops, panels, action stations and speeches (including an opening keynote from actress Geena Davis), we reached out to Jamia via email and asked a few questions..