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National Bald Out!
You've heard of the "Great American Smoke Out" - the day when everyone is encouraged to stop smoking for just one day?
What if, for ONE day, all the bald women in this country (or whatever country you live in) came out in public with nothing on their heads? Imagine the effect! People wouldn't be able to assume that every bald woman they see has cancer. Bald women would become non-remarkable very quickly, just as bald men have. Women like me and other members of AW, who already go out in public bald, would instantly stop feeling so alone.
I'm thinking of making a YouTube video and setting a date for sometime during the summer (when it's warm everywhere). If I picked a date - say a Saturday in July - and put up a YouTube video now urging all bald women to join in on a National Bald Out THAT day, would any of you who don't currently go out in public bald do it for that one day?
Maybe we could get a news service "flash" out there and get TV and print media to pick up on the story! Anyone know how to do that?
I don't know what category to put this in...it's about society, and acceptance, and news, and promoting awareness...so, I'll just put it in Bald is Beautiful, and hope you all see it.
Please share this with other friends on AW and respond - YES OR NO...would you join in?
April 29
HERE WE GO! I just put the video on YouTube. You can find it under the title "Announcing the National Bald Out!", or at this link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXxBKwi-1lw
I hope you all like it! Thank you to everyone for their comments and suggestions as to the content, and special thanks to the lovely ladies who allowed me to use their photos at the end of the video. I think that adds a lot.
On the Bald Girls Do Lunch site, www.baldgirlsdolunch.org, there are some absolutely amazing T-shirts, buttons, banners...and loads of other fun items with two different National Bald Out logo designs, as well as a great one that says "Bald? So What!" I LOVE IT! Thanks so much, Thea! To view the items, click on "Logo Products", then click on "Bald Out July 19". Remember - 100% of proceeds fund the BGDL nonprofit's national outreach to women with alopecia areata, so your purchase of a National Bald Out T-shirt (or other item) will directly benefit women with alopecia.
The next step is for everyone to join the newly-created Alopecia World group "National Bald Out". Until we get the Group up on the Home Page, you can go to this link to join:
www.alopeciaworld.net/group/nationalbaldout
A big Thank You to rj for all his help!
I'll be posting more soon on the National Bald Out group.
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What if, for ONE day, all the bald women in this country (or whatever country you live in) came out in public with nothing on their heads? Imagine the effect! People wouldn't be able to assume that every bald woman they see has cancer. Bald women would become non-remarkable very quickly, just as bald men have. Women like me and other members of AW, who already go out in public bald, would instantly stop feeling so alone.
I'm thinking of making a YouTube video and setting a date for sometime during the summer (when it's warm everywhere). If I picked a date - say a Saturday in July - and put up a YouTube video now urging all bald women to join in on a National Bald Out THAT day, would any of you who don't currently go out in public bald do it for that one day?
Maybe we could get a news service "flash" out there and get TV and print media to pick up on the story! Anyone know how to do that?
I don't know what category to put this in...it's about society, and acceptance, and news, and promoting awareness...so, I'll just put it in Bald is Beautiful, and hope you all see it.
Please share this with other friends on AW and respond - YES OR NO...would you join in?
April 29
HERE WE GO! I just put the video on YouTube. You can find it under the title "Announcing the National Bald Out!", or at this link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXxBKwi-1lw
I hope you all like it! Thank you to everyone for their comments and suggestions as to the content, and special thanks to the lovely ladies who allowed me to use their photos at the end of the video. I think that adds a lot.
On the Bald Girls Do Lunch site, www.baldgirlsdolunch.org, there are some absolutely amazing T-shirts, buttons, banners...and loads of other fun items with two different National Bald Out logo designs, as well as a great one that says "Bald? So What!" I LOVE IT! Thanks so much, Thea! To view the items, click on "Logo Products", then click on "Bald Out July 19". Remember - 100% of proceeds fund the BGDL nonprofit's national outreach to women with alopecia areata, so your purchase of a National Bald Out T-shirt (or other item) will directly benefit women with alopecia.
The next step is for everyone to join the newly-created Alopecia World group "National Bald Out". Until we get the Group up on the Home Page, you can go to this link to join:
www.alopeciaworld.net/group/nationalbaldout
A big Thank You to rj for all his help!
I'll be posting more soon on the National Bald Out group.
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Permalink Reply by Eileen Simpson on
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Little hard for me to decide at this time I have some regrowth, I will do whatever I can to help Mary.
Hugs
Eileen
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Permalink Reply by Mary on
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Thanks, Eileen. We're all at different stages, with unexpected regrowth at times. Right now, after a year of being AU, I have regrowth ONLY in my nostils and at the outer edges of my "eyebrows". I just hope my upper lip hair doesn't grow back. After decades of bleaching and waxing a mustache, it's such a relief to be smooth there!
Hugs back,
Mary
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Permalink Reply by Rahela on
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you know what Mary u are rock!!! and funny and u have great sense of humor ;))and u are positive and that's is really big thing when u have alopecia but honestly ...... i think that im brave person and i will do it lots of crazy things but!!! im my home town go without wig ooo myyyyy.....
I will endorse you if i go in some other town than i don't care ;))) but great idea!!!!thay have to see many many bold and beautifully peoples!!
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Hvala lijepa! Thanks very much! Maybe someday I'll be able to go back to visit Croatia, and then we can get together.
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hehheh, to bi bilo super, ja neznam nikog u Hrvatskoj tko ima alopeciu , u mom rodnom gradu sam viđala jednu curu i to je to :( interesantno koliko nas se krije pod perikom , prosle godine na dermatologiji je prijavljeno 300 novih slučajeva alopecie;) ima nas al se skrivamo! a ti si uvijek dobro dosla u Hrvatsku ovdje je super za roniti pa se mozda i ja odvazin s tobom na taj pothvat;)
puno pusa and big hugs for you!
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You said it! Mnogo je nepravedan da zhene treba da se skriva pod perikom. (Znam da moja grammatika lozh!)
Big hugs back!
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hehhe ma nije !!! super si ti , jos kad pomislin koliko dugo nisi pričala,, da ja nepričan engleski toliko nebi znala riječi;)
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Permalink Reply by Galena on
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I will definately support this effort! I go out bald in my community and I do feel alone. But I'm always approached by someone who is supportive and sweet. I really like this idea Mary. You are an inspiration to all of us who struggle for self-acceptance.
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Permalink Reply by Felicia Graham on
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I already go without my wig, but I do wear a wig or a head wrap most of the time. I am working on going bald more then wearing my wig and a wrap.
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Permalink Reply by Anastasios on
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Its a great idea but it may be too big a step for most women to do alone? It may be a better idea to get people in a region to meet up and do it together on that chosen day. Maybe have AW T shirts with a slogan on to increase public awareness so that the public can be educated and understand that it is not about cancer?
Great blog
Stasi
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