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Teenagers Start Body-Image Campaign to Teach Girls Self-Love Posted: 11 Apr 2015 10:28 AM PDT Sick and tired of mass marketing that promotes unhealthy ideas about what it means to be beautiful, a group of Iowa high school students is taking matters into their own hands. The students initially became interested in how ads impact women and girls after watching Jean Kilbourne's fourth video installment of Killing Us Softly, a documentary about how women are portrayed in advertising.

Transgender teen kills self in California after bullying, group says Posted: 10 Apr 2015 07:43 PM PDT By Marty Graham SAN DIEGO (Reuters) - A transgender teenager from Southern California committed suicide after going online to complain about being bullied at her high school, the head of a gay and lesbian group said on Friday. The death of 16-year-old Taylor Alesana in Fallbrook, a community 45 miles (72 km) north of San Diego, has raised concerns about the situations transgender teenagers can encounter at school. Alesana, in a series of videos posted on YouTube, described her gender identity and the bullying she said she experienced from other Fallbrook High School students. The teenager was found dead at her family's home on April 2, according to the San Diego County Sheriff's Department.

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