KESTRIN PANTERA'S BLOG
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Kestrin's Top 3 Superstars of the 20th Century
- Posted on 03.02.09
Related causes: Community
In honor of this March being Women's History Month, I'm going to list off my "Top 3 American Women Superstars of the 20th Century." These women effected massive change across our political, ecological, and
creative landscapes, and I think everyone would benefit from learning a little bit more about these goddesses:
Kestrin's Top 3 Superstars of the 20th Century
1. Shirley Chisholm:
One of the earliest members of the National Organization for Women, she became the first major-party black
candidate for President of the United States (on January 25, 1972-- over 30 years before President Obama). She was also the first woman to run for the Democratic presidential nomination. Just THINK about the social/political climate in the 1970's. This woman had cajones like no other. Her indomitable spirit and inspired determination always remind me to fight the good fight. Check out the mind-blowing
documentary about her, "Chisholm '72: Unbought and Unbossed" http://www.pbs.org/pov/po...Read More -
Kestrin's Top 3 Causes: "We are ones we are waiting for"
- Posted on 02.16.09
Related causes: Arts, Community, Health, Youth
You know how the world has been getting a little crazy lately? You know how it feels to be completely helpless as our country and the world at large fluctuate from crisis to crisis, with no end in sight? There's only person who can fix things:
You.
In this era of funding cuts and deregulation, it is our responsibility to educate and organize our own communities to enact positive change. I'm thrilled to join Causecast because it's a community devoted to making the world a better place, one cause at a time.
My "Top 3" Causes are:
1. Childhood Education
2. Consumer Education
3. Music Education
1) My first "cause" work was as a volunteer for the HEART after-school program in rural Visalia, CA. I was caught drinking a beer my freshman year at Wake Forest University and was "punished" with 6 hours of community service. After the initial 6 hours, I went on to help raise $2.5 million for HEART and help save my hometown's crumbling education system. Now HEART has a budget of $...Read More -
Operation Ugly Beauty: "Why I Need Red Lipstick"
- Posted on 02.16.09
Related causes: Health
When in doubt, I often ask myself, "What would Jackie O. do?" and the answer is usually, "Wear red lipstick." When I wear red lipstick, people treat me like a princess and open doors for me, I take better pictures, and I feel like a hot chick (instead of a little German boy).
So, what did I do when Sarah Carter (citing her work with The Breast Cancer Fund) told me that my favorite red lipstick has LEAD in it?
a) I pretended I already knew.
b) I continued to wear it religiously, because I need it.
c) I kept doing so until someone stole my purse in Copenhagen and I was "forced" to buy new lipstick in Denmark, in order to take a new passport photo.
In the EU, there are laws banning toxic substances in personal care products, so the lipstick I "had" to buy in Europe was the non-toxic alternative I should have been using all along—but it literally took getting my passport stolen in a foreign country to get me off the Viva Glam II. (For the record, it was more traumatic walking a...Read More
