I write this from my bubble of quiet lightening, a phenomenon that took place after I saw the American adaptation of ‘The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo’. I was hit by many things as I watched that movie, amongst which, of course are the thrill of solving the mystery, and the intricacy of the plot. The most impressing of them all however, was Rooney Mara’s portrayal of Lisbeth Salander, the computer-hacking social misfit. By appearance alone, she is infinitely different from the European version of the character, which was portrayed by Noomi Rapace.

Way back in the earlier months of 2011, I had heard constantly about this movie, and most of the hype was focused on the character of Lisbeth Salander. I knew she’d be queer because there had been a feature on Rooney Mara in Curve Magazine. What I didn’t expect however, was her total badass-ness. Somehow I can completely justify her actions in my mind.

It’s a whole lot more than I can say for ‘Colombiana’, which in my opinion is another ‘hot girl shooting guns for no apparent reason’ movie. Yes she lost her family, yes she wanted to avenge them, yes it was a case of kill or be killed, but I just can’t put it all together to form a solid point. Maybe if it was a little more like ‘Enough’ where Jennifer Lopez engaged her abuser and then killed him in self-defense. Oh I don’t know!

Lisbeth’s badass-ness stems from the complexity of her character. What makes it all so good is not just the way that she punished her abuser, it’s everything about her. From her appearance, to her covetable hacking skills. One of my favorite aspects of the character was her sarcasm and bluntness, the way she eschewed normal practices, choosing instead to say what she had to and end there. With her refusal to conform, she was even more intimidating. What more can you say to a woman who won’t bargain with you?

It was quite sad to see this indomitable character cornered and cowed into submission because society had deemed her unfit to manage her own finances. I watched heartbroken, first as he made her touch him and pleasure him orally, and even worse, the second time as he tore away her clothes and sodomized her as she lay helplessly handcuffed to the bed. I watched, my heart bleeding now, as she gathered her things and limped out of his house; and as she knelt in the shower, the blood flowing with the water down the drain.

When she returned to take her revenge I had no idea what she would do. As she shoved the giant, metal dildo into him and he screamed, I said, “Ha! How d’yu like that now?”. I was in awe of her form of punishment. Not only had she sodomized him in return, and threatened him with footage of him raping her, she marked him mentally and physically so that no other woman would ever fall prey to his ugly intentions. “I AM A RAPIST PIG”.
He would never want anyone to come close enough to see that.

I felt a surge of triumph watching that movie, knowing that one woman somewhere had fought back and left her mark. Far be it from me to say that this should be the model for everyone who has been a victim of rape, I simply hope that Lisbeth Salander, character or not, is a symbol of hope to all that we can fight back and actually win.

It seems pretty ludicrous that Syd ‘tha’ Kid of the infamous, controversial group OFWGKTA (Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All) would dare to openly criticize others about their lifestyle choices. Syd recently revealed her sexual orientation in the music video for ‘Cocaine’, one of the collaborations between herself and Matt Martians, the second half of the sub-group ‘The Internet’.

In an interview for LA Weekly, Syd shared some unsolicited information about the sexual orientation of certain celebrities.

"There's Alicia Keys, who's married to Swizz Beatz - we know that shit ain't real. You got Queen Latifah kissing Common in movies. Missy Elliott saying she don't wanna hang with bitches. You know she loves her some bitches."

Granted, the question was about the lack of out and proud urban artists, and I completely get the frustration she feels as a young gay woman who doesn’t have too many people to look up to. Still, I can’t believe that someone who is affiliated with a group as hateful as Odd Future, would dare to point fingers at anyone else over their lifestyle choices.

It’s baffling enough that a GAY WOMAN would ever defend homophobic, misogynist, racist music. It’s like the story of the half Hawaiian/half Hispanic woman who married a white supremacist on Hitler’s birthday. How can anyone associate with someone who seems to hate a part of their identity? I don’t get it.

I can’t say anything about the sexual orientations of the people who she ‘outed’. If there’s one thing that I have learned, it’s that human sexuality is way too fluid and complicated to ever be categorized as one thing or another. People constantly evolve, and when they do, we learn new things about the human capacity for love and desire.

Take for instance concepts like pansexuality, queer-genderedness, and the identifier ‘masculine of center’. A few years ago, we hadn't heard of these. We never knew that anyone could possibly feel this way. And while most people can barely wrap their heads around ‘queer’ and ‘intersex’, let alone pomosexuality and others, they exist. Maybe the reason why these people haven’t come out is because they still haven’t figured out who they are.

Hey! It happened to Chris Crocker. He went from being a pretty boy, to a pretty girl, and now he’s back to being a good-looking young man with a stubbled chin. When asked why he went back to identifying as a man, he said that was who he felt he was right now (“…isn’t the point of life to grow and to change?”). It’s all about evolution and transitioning. There’s absolutely nothing that dictates that we must nail ourselves to a certain identity.

It could be said that Syd is at a stage in her life where she hasn’t quite decided who she is. Hence her dislike of the word ‘lesbian’ and hanging out with ‘groups of lesbians’. Maybe she’ll come to identify as queer. Maybe she’ll identify as male. The point here is, for someone with such a scrambled agenda, you’d think she would sympathize with Queen Latifah and co. instead of stating unfounded accusations as though they were hard facts. Hell, it’s almost as if she felt lonely after coming out and decided to out some other people to keep her company.

As for the whole Odd Future controversy thing, the duo had this to say,

Martians: "Hodgy, Tyler and Earl didn't plan to rap about those things to get a reaction from the media. They were doing it from the jump. So don't crown us for being these 'important' guys, and then what you crown us for, you wanna clown us for. We didn't ask for you to put us up here like this."

Syd: "If you don't like it, don't listen to it."

Martians: "Right. But a lot of people do because they feel like they have to listen to Odd Future. They feel like they need to have an opinion."

Syd: "That, and a lot of people feel like they don't have a cause to fight for. So when they can get on the internet and rant about something, they take their chance."

Martians: "People like being offended. Let's be real."

If the interview was a courtroom and they were the defendants, they’d lose the case before it even started. First, if they had been rapping like that from the get go and people had started to tell them their music was hateful, why didn't they just stop? If they recognize that their lyrics celebrate rape, homophobia, and misogyny (all bad things clearly), isn’t there a better way to express their talent without offending so many people?

Second, it’s true that we could all just not listen to their music if we don’t like it. I personally have applied the “shut your eyes/ears if you don’t like it” theory, but I bet that if I came on the radio everyday and said something hateful directed at the group (Like Will & Grace’s Karen Walker did to Beverly Leslie – “Attention Republicans! Beverly Leslie is a homosexual. I repeat, a homosexual”), I bet they’d have some interesting things to say.

I’m going to break my rule about not calling things stupid just because I don’t agree, to say yes, the theory that people are so mad at Odd Future because they feel they need to have an opinion and have no other cause to fight for is stupid. The statement claims that people essentially do not have anything better to do. Stupidest of all, is the statement that people like being offended. REALLY?! I don’t know about you but I don’t like to get my feathers ruffled for no reason. Like anyone would ever go, “Hmmmm, I’m bored. Lemme go on the internet and find something to get angry about.”

I blame the people who are constantly hyping up their music, telling them that they can do no wrong and to please, go ahead and call everyone names even if the world keeps telling you we don’t like it.
 

While myself and the rest of the world were busy expressing our outrage over the disturbing sexualization of boom boom-shaking Jenna Rose and the stripperfied little girls from ‘Dance Moms’, there was a team somewhere putting together the boy band from hell. Ok, maybe not quite so hellish, but a nightmare nonetheless. This new group is called ‘Mindless Behavior’.

At first when iTunes gave out their music video on ‘free-music Tuesday’, I took a look at the screenshot and left it alone, never checking it out until it popped up after a video I had just finished watching on YouTube. Imagine the shock and horror I experienced when the group which I had initially thought to be made up of four young men in their late-teens/early twenties, was really four teeny weeny boys who couldn’t possibly be older than 13.

In the midst of all the shock and horror however, is a statement that tickles me tremendously. It’s bad enough that this group of prepubescent cocktail wieners have been dubbed ‘Mindless Behavior’, it’s also quite evident in the following statement by one of the members, that they have NO IDEA whatsoever, what their name means.

So how can you be "Mindless?" Ray Ray goes on, "Anybody can be mindless. It doesn't matter if you're two-years-old or eighty-two-years-old. Be yourself. Love who you are and love what you do, no matter what it is. That makes you mindless."

EHHHHHH! WRONG!
Quick! Someone buy them a dictionary/thesaurus combo!

mindless |ˈmīn(d)lis|  adj.
• acting or done without justification or concern for the consequences: a generation of mindless vandals | mindless violence.
• [ predic. ] (mindless of) not thinking of or concerned about: mindless of the fact she was in her nightgown, she rushed to the door.
• (of an activity) so simple or repetitive as to be performed automatically without thought or skill: the monotony of housework turns it into a mindless task.

Last time I checked, the word ’Mindless’ did not connote anything worthy of emulation, except maybe when defined in the last context. E.g. “For the employees at McDonald’s, the preparation of food has become a mindless task…” Nah. Didn’t work. I don’t want the mindless preparation of food that I’m supposed to be consuming, to result in me finding someone’s Band-Aid in my Big Mac. That aside, I’m still trying to figure out how loving oneself translates to mindlessness. Wake up parents! Your children ARE being left behind.

Let’s take a look-see at the music video shall we?



First off, if my little brother exuded that much attitude I would smack him upside his head. Boys that age have NO BUSINESS looking for Mrs. Right anywhere around the world. To me it’s just a watered –down version of Lil’ Wayne’s ‘Every Girl’. Here are the lyrics to the first verse:

Shawty say ya don't but I bet you do/MB on your ringtone, posters in your room/Sassy little thing,like the way you talk/Heard you got the goods go ahead show them off/Take a picture quick, send it to my phone/Dimple in your cheek, white Gucci stunners on/Don't know where you've been hiding from me so long/Prodigy, Roc, RayRay and Princeton we on/So baby come on

Wait. What?! Show what goods off? Not only are we pushing our little boys to grow up too fast with all this mindless behavior, we’re also teaching them that it’s ok to objectify women. This video’s got the same M.O as most other hip-hop videos. Loads of women dancing suggestively? Check. Main act preening while women fall over them? Check.

With all the attitude these little boys are giving off, it wouldn’t be surprising if they became some of the worst narcissists in the future. They’re clearly on the right track for that. Just like a friend of mine said, this is just inappropriate, and it is unbelievable that any parent would be okay with their kids acting like that on TV.

It's hard to dislike a movie like "The Help." Yes, it depicts black people in a way that many would rather not see, but it's full of romantic hope about the possibility of racial co-existence. This is what has people ooh-ing and aah-ing over the book and movie. It does a very good job of glossing over the bad parts, leaving people with memories of funny lines rather than a recollection of what it was possibly like to be black and living in Jackson, Mississippi during the era of the Civil Rights Movement. For example, as I was leaving the theater, a group of teenage girls walking ahead of me could not stop repeating the lines of the movie. You know, the part where Minny brings Hilly the chocolate pie and tells her to "eat my s***" after Hilly has eaten two slices. The Association of Black Women Historians was right when it stated that the movie trivializes the black experience and resurrects the mammy stereotype. It's sad that all anyone could remember after about 146 minutes and possibly reading the book, was the fact that the black maid pooped in her former employers pie.

Before I launch into my treatise about how "The Help" is truly no help at all, I would like to state that it is my humble opinion that the real problem people have with the book is the fact that it was written by a white woman. How dare she think she knows anything about having to serve a white family? Write the characters' dialogue in dummy English like they were unintelligent? And then dare to put in a passage about being raised by a black maid/slave? It's a shame that we live in a world where any and everything is under serious scrutiny just in case someone might have racist intentions. It is from this scrutiny that phenomena such as the 'token black' have been born. No matter how hard an advertiser tries, there will always be someone out there thinking, "Why couldn't that have been a black lady in that commercial?" The fact remains however, that it is very difficult to answer questions about the possibility that a white woman could ever understand the power inequalities and racial dynamics of black women in positions of subservience. One can try to be like Skeeter, kind and sympathetic to the plight of the less fortunate, but claiming to understand completely a situation that one has never experienced, smacks of haughty know-it-all-ness.

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I know I have posted previously on feminism and its tendency to be misconstrued as a gaggle of angry man-hating women with unshaven armpits and hairy legs, who determinedly do away with anything remotely feminine. In that post, I also discussed the possibility that men could be feminists as well, since feminism should be a predominant, recurrent way of thinking rather than a political movement. Youtube user ‘Battlefield315’ does not share my sentiments. And since the idea is to pull stupid arguments and stereotypes out of the air, I would like to describe Battlefield as an individual who seems to be a troll-like conservative with very juvenile ideas for making ‘liberals’ look stupid. Here’s the manifesto on Battlefield’s website:

Ooooh liberals! Scary scary people with unorthodox ways and sinister plans to take over the world.

There are a bunch of videos on the site expressing Battlefield’s fish-eyed view of the state of the nation. Gay marriage, the Tea Party, gun control, socialism etc. Battlefield’s wealth of knowledge has provided the public with renditions of the liberal’s perspective. After all, it makes sooooo much sense that the only person who would know so much about a liberal’s modus operandi would be a non-liberal. Battlefield’s a genius! Of course the liberal is portrayed as a woman. Because men are the ones with all the right answers right? More annoyingly, even when the issues being debated have absolutely nothing to do with them.

The video explaining a liberal’s point of view is nothing short of stupid. A monkey could have thought this up. It’s so very apparent that all Battlefield is attempting to do is discredit liberals. The video starts off with the liberal admonishing the conservative for rejoicing over Bin Laden’s death because it’s wrong to be happy about the death of any human being. It all goes downhill after that. The man counters with news about Cheney’s death and points out that the liberal is happy about that death. There’s some rambling about communists and then the liberal states that Bin Laden’s death has a silver lining because it should automatically guarantee Obama’s reelection. After being told that Obama’s approval ratings weren’t all that great, the liberal plays the race card, calling everyone who doesn’t support Obama a racist. “If a white man had killed Bin Laden he’d be a hero.” *facepalm*

Enough with that nonsense.

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If you haven’t heard of Jenna Rose or the little ‘Single Ladies’ from last year’s World of Dance hip-hop competition, the girls from the tv show ‘Dance Moms’ are here to remind you. It’s a show on Lifetime and is set in Pittsburgh’s Abby Lee Dance Company, where little girls’ collective innocence come to die. The show follows a cast of seven girls ranging in age from 6 ½ to 13, their “doting” mothers, and the very tasking Abby Lee.


With girls in skimpy costumes doing age-inappropriate dance moves, this show represents most of what I hate about American telly. There’s just something about watching flat-chested, prepubescent stick figures dressed in lacy, pedophile-friendly lingerie and dancing like they’re in the stripper Olympics that doesn’t sit well with me. Who even makes be-ribboned stockings for eight year-olds? Gah!


There are two culprits here - the mothers who watch their daughters slut it up every week but keep bringing them back, and the pushy dance instructor who tells her students that they need to wear skimpier outfits and do more scandalous dances. This dance instructor is quoted as having said to one little girl, "You have to be really hot. Sexy. Make it like you're 17 years old." Well lady, there’s the thing. If you know this dance routine is not PG-13, why are you teaching it to these girls. One mother expressed her belief that her daughter belonged in the dance school by saying that she would slit her wrists if her daughter ever told her she wanted to play softball. This is where I scream, “Child Protective Services!”


Without further ado, I present to you a gag-worthy, circus of horrors complete with butt-smacking and suggestive leg-spreading.




Have you ever seen the Yoplait commercial with the young woman who stands in front of an open refrigerator contemplating whether or not to eat the delicious-looking cheesecake? If you haven’t, you probably never will again unless you look on Youtube. The commercial was pulled after complaints by the National Eating Disorders Association, who claimed that it promoted eating disorders. Come to think of it, she does have an awfully long debate with herself over whether to eat a slice of cheesecake.

"What if I had just a small slice? I was good today, I deserve it!" she thinks to herself. "Or, I could have a medium slice and some celery sticks and they would cancel each other out, right? Or, OK, I could have one large slice and jog in place as I eat it. Or, OK, how about one large slice while jogging in place followed by eight celery…"

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Just as there’s a disconnect between how much young people are inundated with sexual messages and imagery and the provision of information and resources to support said imagery, there’s a key part of thinking missing from the advocacy process. Thanks to programs and initiatives run by organizations like Advocates and various state Health Departments, there are a lot more condoms available on college campuses. During the school year, students can get condoms and perhaps other forms of contraception from the health center and RAs. But what happens when the semester is over and they go home? Is there some kind of take-home package for the holidays.

The one thing that most people do not realize or forget to think about, is the fact that there is a sex triangle of sorts going on with most students. It’s quite commonplace right now to have a ‘friend with benefits’ during the school year. Whether FWB occurs because the persons involved don’t want a relationship or for the sake of sexual experimentation, it’s happening on college campuses everywhere. The sex triangle is somewhat like this:

The accompanying result of said triangle is one of two: ‘College student’ contacts a disease or infection from ‘Friend with Benefits’ and then passes it on to ‘Girl/Guy Next Door’ over Christmas break, or vice versa. Either way, it’s shiver worthy. It’s like ‘Pay It Forward’!

So what needs to be done? First of all, these young people need to know that they are putting themselves and others at risk by only paying attention to one category of sexual partner. It’s most important to at least know what could happen and then think of ways to safeguard against the spread of diseases and infections. Get condoms at the infirmary during the school year? Take some with you when you go home. Don’t be a cheapo about buying them if you have to. Also, have the same sex-centered conversation with each of your partners. Just because you might know one longer than the other doesn’t mean that the chances of catching something are any less.

Pardon me for being culturally sensitive and whatnot but Ad agencies need to start firing some people. How hard is it to make a commercial that doesn’t offend the people it’s directed at. I’m so sick and tired of watching telly and seeing all the rubbish that’s being passed off as quality advertising. I’m torn between the urge to march into an agency as the herald of the ‘rubbish apocalypse’ and my need to stay away from working in an agency after I graduate; I just might throw coffee in someone’s face if I’m sitting in a meeting one day and some jackass throws down a proposal for some racist, sexist, or homophobic commercial. Nah! I’d never do that. Verbal assault, not coffee flinging.


Anyhoo, there seems to be a growing number of borderline racist commercials out there. My latest source of annoyance is non other than the McDonald’s commercial for the Mango Pineapple smoothie. You know, that one where there’s a dude on stage and he goes, “When I say Mango, you say Pineapple...” The first time I saw it I was like “WHAT?! Is everything a mini hip-hop video now?” Imagine my shock and surprise when I discovered that the head of Marketing is black. Black I tell you! The commercial has inspired many comments, some of which tickle my funny bone.

Youtuber A: “since when can you hype up a crowd over a smoothie...”

Youtuber B [in response to Youtuber A]“according to McDonald's, as long as the crowd is black and the smoothie is tropical.”

Youtuber C: “Shit like this is embarrassing to everyone. Made by people who will never see hip hop as anything other than how to sell shit to black folks.”

And then there’s the Hair Cuttery commercial with a man and woman dancing in what seems to be a club. This is ridiculous from the get go. I originally argued that black people don’t get their hair cut at the Cuttery but it seems that I am wrong. That doesn't change the fact that it was a stupid idea to make the commercial a club scene. Is that all black people do? Dress up and go to clubs? Why couldn't it be a commercial with a black couple out to dinner, or out boating or something. I don't know! Just not a club!




Moving on, there’s also the fact that advertisers seem to think that they must have a black equivalent for every commercial they put out. Census 2010, Kia, Education Connection anyone? Just take what you have, stick a young man in baggy pants flinging his hands about like they’re on fire and ta-da!, you’ve got a commercial ready to be directed at a black audience.

It's cute but seriously? It even has backup dancers doing Beyonce's Oh-oh dance. 

Clearly someone needs to be out on the streets passing out surveys so an end can be put to all this.

Usually, I have a GIANT problem with MTV due to its popularity as a ratings-whore and producer of utterly shitty programs. Three shows about teen pregnancy are supposed to help reduce the epidemic huh? I guess an hour-long documentary wouldn’t have been enough. One show that I pay a little attention to SOMETIMES is ‘True Life’. There are a lot of useless episodes about teens wanting to become popular or a rock star which usually leave me wishing that the subjects would get a life and move on to something else more meaningful. Just learn how to play bass or the drums please. Since when does anyone take lessons on how to become cool in school? But then, this is coming from the girl whose friends would beg her to stop acting like a kid and try to catch guys’ attention like a normal teenage girl, so pay me no mind.

On a serious note, someone needs to call MTV on their bullshit. “True Life: I want to be straight”? What is this? A membership drive for Marcus Bachmann’s psycho clinic? Unfortunately, I caught the episode halfway through and couldn’t find the full video anywhere online. MTV doesn’t have it up on its website. Shocker! A lot of people didn’t think there was anything remotely endearing about airing an episode depicting gay youth who are the opposite of proud. That’s just great MTV. Send a message to all the LGBTQ youth out there telling them to back down whenever they face opposition. What are y’all, crazy?

This episode of True Life follows two gay youth, one male and the other female. 24 year-old Melanie, is struggling with her sexuality because her mother disapproves of her lifestyle. Kevin from Wenatchee, WA is 25 and wants to be straight because his family is Christian and believes that homosexuality is a sin. What else is new? This young man makes me so mad every time I think about all the nonsense he said. All that talk about his family being the problem was clearly just a load of complete tosh because he explains his reason for wanting to be straight when his friends ask.

According to him , being gay ruined his life. I guess he just couldn’t handle all that freedom of self-expression that came with being true to his feelings. What a tosser! This is the kind of nonsensical, woe-is-me, I-will-blame-the-way-my-life-turned-out-on-everything-but-myself behavior that makes people think that the LGBTQ community is constantly having their own version of Woodstock. Free love! More like absolute piffle. I can sorta handle Melanie’s reasons for wanting to be straight even though I don’t agree that trying to change herself to please her mother was the way to go about it. You’re out, you’re proud, you’ve been that way for a while now, so what’s the problem?

After MTV aired this nonsense, they had the nerve to put it up on their activism site (act.mtv.org) which they delusively describe as a site “where fist-pumping and lending a helping hand collide. We raise a glass to the risk-takers and change-makers, and make it easy for everyone to take action - right now - on issues they care about.” Really though? The description for the True Life episode is another that gets me. Read this nonsense:

You read right. Tonight's episode of "True Life" follows two young people who are unable to fully embrace their sexuality due to disapproval from family, friends, religion and society. During tonight's show, Kevin and Melanie struggle to change their sexual orientation.

Kevin, 25, from Wenatchee, Washington, was raised in a devout Christian family that believes homosexuality is a sin. "Being gay went against everything that I learned while I was growing up," he says. Kevin recognized his attraction to men at a young age and had his first gay experience at 16. What followed would strain his relationship with his parents and lead him to seek religious outlets to "correct" his sexuality.

24-year-old Melanie, from Chicago, also grapples with family members who reject her sexual identity. Melanie's relationship with her mother becomes especially volatile at one point and she finds herself homeless as a result. Tonight's episode picks up with Melanie after she has reunited with her mother and is dating men in hopes of staying close to her mom--despite her continued attraction to women.

Both of these stories emphasize why a safe and supportive environment is so important to someone struggling with his or her sexuality. Have you or a friend dealt with a similar situation? The Trevor Project offers helpful, life-affirming resources, from a nationwide, 24/7 crisis intervention lifeline to advocacy/educational programs. Find more ways to take action on this issue below.

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If you, like hundreds of thousands of Nigerian elementary school children, were spoon-fed idioms as part of the daily ritual of knowledge impartment, you should be familiar with the phrase “Every cloud has a silver lining.” This is the case with “Kiss & Tell”, an HIV prevention campaign launched by GMHC (Gay Men’s Health Crisis) which was derived from the homophobic “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy which is blessedly no longer legal.

The campaign encourages all black and Latino young men who have sex with men, to have open and understanding discussions with their partners about their sexual history and HIV status. According to the GMHC’s press release, “The campaign was developed in partnership with young men, ages 13 to 19, who participate in GMHC's new youth leadership-development program, CLUB1319. The program provides HIV prevention education, social networking, skills training, and opportunities to participate in developing social marketing campaigns such as "Kiss & Tell"…The youth wanted a campaign that spoke the opposite of this policy-while featuring intimacy and what is possible for young gay couples as they express trust, respect and commitment for one another.”

It’s great to see that there is as great an emphasis on communication in same-sex relationships as on heterosexual relationships. The campaign speaks to the ever-present need to reduce the spread of HIV among gay men; the logic is quite simple. Understandably, there is an imbalance in the availability of resources for hetero versus same-sex couples in the form of books, counseling and whatnot; and so it’s a very good thing that GMHC is addressing this very important need.

For more information on the GMHC and the “Kiss & Tell” campaign, check out the organization's website and the campaign’s Facebook Page.