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Face Equality
Face equality is a social movement that seeks to normalize and de-stigmatize facial disfigurement (FD), and, by extent, lessen prejudice towards individuals with facial disfigurements. The term and corresponding movement was founded in 2008 by UK-based charity Changing Faces. Face Equality Week, which Changing Faces also launched, is held annually in May. Themes for the week have included "Stop the Stare" (2022), and "We Will Not Hide" (2023). The Sunshine Social Welfare Foundation in Taiwan also holds a Facial Equality Day in May. Goals Goals of face equality include: * Normalizing and de-stigmatizing FD, therefore lessening societal pressure to hide FD * Addressing discrimination based on FD in employment and the workplace * Addressing stereotypes that conflate FD with villainy * Improving representation of individuals with FD in television and film * Addressing and preventing the censorship of individuals with FD when posting photos and videos online Organizations Face Eq ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Facial Disfiguration
A facial is a family of skin care treatments for the face, including steam, exfoliation (physical and chemical), extraction, creams, lotions, facial masks, peels, and massage. They are normally performed in beauty salons, but are also a common spa treatment. They are used for general skin health as well as for specific skin conditions. Types of facials include European facial, LED light therapy facials, hydrafacials and mini-facials. Facial mask There are different kinds of masks (e.g., clay, cactus, cucumber) for different purposes: deep-cleansing, by penetrating the pores; healing acne scars or hyper-pigmentation; brightening, for a gradual illumination of the skin tone. Facial masks also help with anti-aging, acne, crows feet, under eye bags, sagging lids, dark circles, puffiness, and more. Some masks are designed to dry or solidify on the face, almost like plaster; others just remain wet. Masks are removed by either rinsing the face with water, wiping off with a da ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Changing Faces (charity)
Changing Faces is a UK-based charity that advocates for individuals with a visible difference to the face, hands, or body, offering support and representation. The organization provides guidance for those with an unusual appearance caused by congenital conditions, accidents, injuries, illnesses, or medical treatments. History The charity was founded in 1992 by James Partridge OBE, who sustained severe burns in a car fire when he was 18 years old. He wrote about the experience in a book, ''Changing Faces'', in the late 1980s, and was persuaded to set up the charity after speaking about it with doctors from University College Hospital in London. Operations The charity provides psychological support for people with visible differences, including disfigurements, by providing advice, information, counselling, and workshops across the UK. It also provides advice to health professionals, teachers, and employers, by running training courses and study days that enable professionals ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sunshine Social Welfare Foundation
Sunshine Social Welfare Foundation () is a charity established in 1981 in Taiwan to provide comprehensive services for burn survivors and people with facial disfigurement. Inspired by the book written by burn survivor SHEN Xiao-Ya entitled ''People Who Shun the Sun'', a group of public-minded individuals from the media, business, medical and NPO sectors, joined people with facial disfigurement to launch a fundraising campaign in 1981. Small donations raised with the public were the basis for the establishment of Sunshine Social Welfare Foundation. Sunshine has for mission to provide “comprehensive services for burn survivors and people with facial disfigurement; to assist them in their physical, psychological and social rehabilitation; to uphold their human rights and dignity.” Clients of the Foundation include burn survivors, oral cancer survivors, people with hemangioma, neurofibromatosis, cleft lip and palate A cleft lip contains an opening in the upper lip that may ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Partridge
James Richard John Partridge (30 October 1952 – 16 August 2020) was the founder and chief executive of the charity Changing Faces. Early and personal life Born in Chipping Sodbury, Gloucestershire, and educated at Clifton College, Bristol, Partridge sustained 40% burns to his face, upper body, arms, and hands in a car accident at the age of 18 in 1970. A year later, he went to University College, Oxford, from where he graduated with a degree in politics, philosophy, and economics in 1975. After studying for a master of science in medical demography at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, he became a health economist in the National Health Service. He married Caroline Schofield in 1978 and moved to her native Guernsey, where he became a dairy farmer and later worked as an economics teacher. They have three children. Partridge died on 16 August 2020, at the age of 67. Changing Faces charity Partridge wrote 'Changing Faces: the Challenge of Facial Disfigurement ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phoenix Society For Burn Survivors
Phoenix Society for Burn Survivors is an American non-profit organization. As "one of the first burn support organizations in the United States", it is "dedicated to empowering anyone affected by a burn injury". It is based in Grand Rapids, Michigan. History The organization was founded in 1977 by Alan Breslau, a man who was extensively burned due to a commercial airliner crash in 1963. After visiting a boy at a burn center several years earlier, Breslau recognized a need for peer support Peer support occurs when people provide knowledge, experience, emotional, social or practical help to each other. It commonly refers to an initiative consisting of trained supporters (although it can be provided by peers without training), and can ... for those with burn injuries. Activities The Phoenix Society offers an array of support to those it serves. It has an online community to connect these people. Its program SOAR is focused on one-on-one peer support for people recently affected by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Smile Train
Smile Train is a nonprofit organization and charity providing corrective surgery for children with cleft lips and palates. Headquartered in New York City and founded in 1999, Smile Train provides free corrective cleft surgery in 87 countries, training local doctors and providing hospital funding for the procedures. History Smile Train was created in 1998 by Brian Mullaney and Charles Wang, who had previously worked with Operation Smile, another charity focused on correcting cleft lips and palates. They felt the most efficient way to provide cleft surgery was to train and support local doctors rather than to fly in Western doctors to provide surgeries in poor, developing countries. Local doctors would also be able to provide care year-round rather than the limited engagements of the "mission-based" model. In 1999, Smile Train approached Court B. Cutting of New York University's Virtual Research Laboratory to create training videos, which could be used to train local doctors on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Body Image In Popular Culture
Body may refer to: In science * Physical body, an object in physics that represents a large amount, has mass or takes up space * Body (biology), the physical material of an organism * Body plan, the physical features shared by a group of animals * Human body, the entire structure of a human organism ** Dead body, cadaver, or corpse, a dead human body * (living) matter, see: Mind–body problem, the relationship between mind and matter in philosophy * Aggregates within living matter, such as inclusion bodies In arts and entertainment In film and television * ''Jism'' (2003 film) or ''Body'', a 2003 Indian film * ''Body'' (2015 Polish film), a 2015 Polish film * ''Body'' (2015 American film), a 2015 American film * "Body" (''Wonder Showzen'' episode), a 2006 episode of American sketch comedy television series ''Wonder Showzen'' * "Body", an episode of the Adult Swim television series, '' Off the Air'' In literature and publishing * body text, the text forming the main cont ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
