So, here may be the strangest potential male celebrity role model for a campaign aimed at ending violence against women that ever there could be.. Alexander Sarsgård, who plays a vampire in True Blood and who also has an increasingly large number of crush-struck male and female fans desperately wanting him to bite them. In the interests of dignity (being in my late thirties and all) I won’t go quite that far in my declaration but none the less he got my vote for The Pixel Project.
I can’t say enough how important male allies are in any campaign to stop violence against women, so I think the idea behind The Pixel Project is a great one. When they approached me for support for the campaign I was more than happy to plug them.
Here ya go…
The Pixel Project (http://www.thepixelproject.net) is a global volunteer-led nonprofit organisation working to end Violence Against Women worldwide by taking fund-and-awareness raising for the VAW cause into the 21st Century by delivering innovative, powerful viral campaigns across various online and virtual channels including social media.
We are a worldwide coalition of grassroots activists and volunteers using the power of Web 2.0 to mount a global effort to raise awareness about and hopefully mobilise millions to get involved with ending violence against girls and women. We strongly believe that men and women must take a stand together for the right of women to live a life free of gender-based violence.
Our team is currently scattered across 4 continents, 12 timezones and over 10 cities worldwide, proving that there are no cultural or social barriers when it comes to this issue.
Our first fundraiser is to raise US$1 million in aid of the USA’s National Coalition Against Domestic Violence and Malaysia’s Women’s Aid Organisation via an online fundraiser in which a 1-million pixel mystery collage of 4 to 6 globally known Celebrity Male Role Models will be unveiled online as donors “buy” each pixel for US$1.00.
The Pixel Project chooses to focus on positive male role models from different walks of life to demonstrate that men have a major role to play in breaking the cycle of violence against women. We want to show that men can lead by example and build successful lives without violence.
As part of efforts to recruit Celebrity Male Role Models for the mystery collage, The Pixel Project is pleased to launch their first Voters’ Choice Celebrity Male Role Model campaign through which a worldwide audience votes for an actor to be included in our A-list line-up which includes a Nobel Prize Winner and a Pulitzer Prize winner.
The two nominees with the most votes will be invited to donate JUST 45 MINUTES of their time to have their picture taken for the collage and to join the global community in saying “It’s time to stop Violence Against Women. Together.”
The superstar nominee who accepts the invitation will be revealed through the Pixel Reveal fundraiser which will be launched in the second half of 2010.
Voting is open from 17 May 2010 – 17 June 2010 and you are invited to key in your vote and sign the online petition here: http://bit.ly/PixelVote.
Go vote!
As soon as the little ones are in bed I am about to get my “fill” of true blood. Great idea to combine your crush with activism. I cast my vote.
We’ll be right there with you. As soon as both ours are down we’re back into True Blood too tonigh.
No Jon Hamm (aka Don Draper from Mad Men)???
Not only is he handsome beyond belief, the man
used to be a daycare teacher.
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