Resources
Ma’yan’s resources include tip sheets, curricula and other tools to assist you in your change-making. Explore below!
Ma’yan’s resources include tip sheets, curricula and other tools to assist you in your change-making. Explore below!
In a time-challenged environment where there exists little to no formal training in these curricular areas, does an opportunity exist to better equip educators to address these “evaded issues”?...
This documentary short was created by Beth Cooper Benjamin Ed.D., Director of Research at Ma’yan, in collaboration with a group of teenage girls. The girls interviewed each other and their families about the experience of deciding what to wear for...
How do you respond to problematic comments made at family gatherings, parties or other social interactions? We’re letting you in on some of our tricks. Before even figuring out how to respond, you first have to determine if to respond....
Here, at long last and in all its awesomeness, is the full-length (18-ish minute) version of the Ma'yan RTI video on media sexism and its impact on girls and young women. If you are interested in using this video in...
Pretty Sexy Sassy: How Girls and the Media Consume One Another is a youth-made video created by the 2013 Research Training Intensive cohort. The video examines media sexism and its impact on girls and young women, drawing on interviews with...
Recently, the 2012-13 Ma'yan Research Training Interns (RTIs) gathered to premiere their video documentary,Pretty Sexy Sassy: How Girls and the Media Consume One Another. The video examines media sexism and its impact on girls and young women, drawing on interviews...
Your wait ends now! Introducing Webisode #3 of the Ma'yan RTI video Pretty Sexy Sassy: How Girls and the Media Consume One Another. This five and a half minute video examines marketing and corporate interests in popular media and how these...
How can we resist and challenge the sexist messages that the media sends us? In this Webisode, Ma'yan's Research Training Interns offer strategies to build awareness and take action in your community. ...
At the JCC in Manhattan, where I work, it’s sometimes hardto tell apart the staff who work with our teens and the teensthemselves. Youth professionals who work directly withadolescents—including camp counselors, youth-groupadvisors and student-life directors, as well as formaleducators—often enter...
While we put the finishing touches on the full RTI Cohort 4 video, Pretty Sexy Sassy: How Girls and the Media Consume One Another, here's a bonus episode to keep you satisfied! We call it Sexist Microaggressions in School, and...
This comic book was created by the 2016 cohort of That’s Not Fair! Participants worked with author Juliana “Jewels” Smith to create the individual pieces in this book. Comics focus on the themes of Jewish identity, gender identity, body size,...