SUCCESS! America's Next Top Model "Ten Sexiest Ways to Kill a Woman" photo shoot pulled forever!
Sick of seeing women's bodies beaten, battered and exploited for the sake of ratings, NOW-NYC's Women and Girls in Media Committee launched a hard-hitting campaign to shame Tyra Banks and the entire CW network into pulling the disturbing photographs of "The Girl Who Changed Her Attitude" episode that aired in March. Although unwilling to publicly comment on the ensuing widespread controversy, America's Next Top Model has quietly erased all trace of this photo shoot that glamorizes violence against women from their official website and confirmed that the photos which strove to make strangulation, organ-stealing, and electrocution appear "as sexy as possible," will not appear in the model's final portfolios at the end of the season. While these results are encouraging, they represent only a small step taken towards ending the normalization of violence against women and girls in today's media and entertainment industries.

President Sonia Ossorio was on the frontlines calling for Don Imus to be fired.
On April 10th, NOW-NYC participated in a press conference in front of NBC at Rockefeller Center alongside the NAACP, NOW, COALITION of 100 BLACK WOMEN, and elected officials. NOW-NYC's President also did independent interviews with Channel 2, Channel 11, NY1, Inside Edition, the John Gibson show on FOX, a FOX regional segment with Jodi Applegate, and MSNBC. Don Imus couldn't make enough excuses to keep his job.

Calvin Klein pulls window display depicting adults in Calvin Klein clothing surrounded by nude girl children under pressure from NOW-NYC members and colleagues. The display, taken down in February of 2007, was removed less than 24 hours after NOW made contact with Calvin Klein.

Dolce and Gabbana pulls ad campaign. In March 2007, NOW-NYC networked with colleagues to bring attention to a Dolce and Gabbana advertisement campaign which glamorized rape. The campaign was ultimately pulled.

Women in Hip Hop: Revered or Reviled? Film Screening and Discussion on Women & Hip Hop. On April 19, 2007, NOW-NYC prompted a timely discussion around music and misogyny when with this program and film screening of Byron Hurt's documentary Hip Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes. The screening was followed by an engaging panel discussion, featuring Kim Osorio Former Editor in Chief of Source Magazine, & Current Executive Editor at BET Interactive DJ Shakey DJ/Mixer and music writer for Bust and Sweet Action and Shante Paradigm Smalls hip hop performer and music writer.

More of NOW-NYC's Media Campaign in the News
Watch a Press Interview with Ebony Ellis. The head of our Women and Girls in the Media Committee talks to the Associated Press at the March for Decency in Music.

Read NOW-NYC Press Release on Misogyny in Hip Hop

President Sonia Ossorio quoted in New York Magazine. NOW-NYC President Sonia Ossorio comments on new nipple make-up. "While women are spending their energy, time, and money getting their areolas just the right shade of pink, the Supreme Court is getting more conservative and closer to taking away our long-fought right to reproductive choice."