Press

2021

Sept 2021

Denier: A Conversation Jean Kilbourne
Aug 2021

International Overdose Awareness Day: 5 Powerful Anti-Drug Quotes To Raise Awareness
May 2021

It’s Time for Beauty Brands to Confront Colorism in Their Advertising
Feb 2021

LinkedIn: Jean Kilbourne on what half a century analysing advertising has taught her

2020

October 2020

Advertising vs. Democracy: An Interview with Jean Kilbourne by Hugh Iglarsh at CounterPunch
September 2020

Interview with Graham Goulden
July 20, 2020

Interview with Graham Goulden
July 2020

Why teach media literacy to teen girls?
July 2020

Impossible Beauty Podcast Episode - "The Power of Advertising" with Jean Kilbourne
July 11, 2020

Elon Musk’s Short Shorts Tweet Has Inconsistent Messaging
July 4, 2020

Revolutionary Roots and the True Meaning of Patriotism
April 23, 2020

Trump and the “Nasty,” “Horrid” Women Reporters
April 13, 2020

Unmasking Donald Trump

2019

Nov 19, 2019

Manage the Moment: Conversations in Performance Psychology (Podcast Episode)
Dec 13, 2019

Staring at a mirror
Oct 1, 2019

Jean Kilbourne and Friends Celebrate 40 Years of “Killing Us Softly”
Sept 20, 2019

Feminist activist Jean Kilbourne encourages others ‘not to be silenced’ in Smith College talk
Sept 23, 2019

Smith College hosts event to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Jean Kilbourne’s ‘Killing Us Softly’
Sept 26, 2019

Killing Us (Not) So Softly
April 4, 2019

Advertising & Society Quarterly (Volume 20, Issue 1, 2019): Roundtable on Sex in Advertising, Part I
April 15, 2019

Dogpatch Dispatch: My Encounter with Al Capp
March 19, 2019

Six Ad Women Who Have Come a Long Way
March 15, 2019

Forty Years After ‘Killing Us Softly,’ Creator Jean Kilbourne Still on Crusade
Jan 11, 2019

Advertising & Society Quarterly (Volume 19, Issue 4, 2018): Fighting for a Positive Cultural Environment: An Interview with Jean Kilbourne
Jan 11, 2019

Advertising & Society Quarterly (Volume 19, Issue 4, 2018): Roundtable on Sex in Advertising, Part I
Jan 18, 2019

Richardson: Gillette's ad on masculinity is better late than never
Jan 7, 2019

What Outlander Finally Gets Right About Rape This Season

2018

Dec 7, 2018

Outlander's Sex Scenes Are More Than Hot—They're Genuinely Feminist
September 27, 2018

Good Morning America - In #MeToo era, Brett Kavanaugh's accuser may prompt more to share their stories later in life
August 19, 2018

Zestful Aging with Jean Kilbourne -- “Action is the Antidote to Despair”
April 19, 2018

Advertising Has a Headless Woman Problem
April, 2018

Body & Soul: Jean Kilbourne
March 12, 2018

Sexualization of food in advertising contributes to obesity epidemic
January 27, 2018

CVS vows to stop touching up its beauty images
January 24, 2018

Jean Kilbourne: The Tyranny of the Ideal Beauty Image
January 22, 2018

CVS’s Photoshop ban will spread

2017

November 22, 2017

Ignored or sexualized: How Hollywood is failing women
November 21, 2017

Conscious Self-Confidence and How the Media Influence Us, With Jean Kilbourne
April 20, 2017

Author Jean Kilbourne adresses sexualization of women in advertising
Spring 2017

Hartman Center Celebrates 25 Years
January 19, 2017

The Dangers of a Disney Princess

2016

November 4, 2016

Always the right time to honor inductees of the National Women’s Hall of Fame
September 16, 2016

Making It Conscious: Jean Kilbourne on the murky world of advertising
August 30, 2016

The hottest new trend in advertising: fucking your food
June 5, 2016

Wish Radio: Jean Kilbourne on How Advertising is Killing Women Softly
March 14, 2016

Top of Mind with Julie Rose: Refugee Crisis, Cigarette Warning Labels, Women in Advertising
March 8, 2016

Dying to Be Thin and Beautiful: Feminism and Advertising, an Interview With Jean Kilbourne
February 24, 2016

Body Image Is a Public Health Issue A Call to Action
February 11, 2016

The two things that could keep Barbie’s evolution from being the success it should be

2015

Oct 6, 2015

National Women's Hall of Fame Listing: Jean Kilbourne
November 20, 2015

What happens when daughters start to outshine their mothers?
November 12, 2015

What a creepy Bloomingdale’s ad tells us about America’s understanding of rape
July 22, 2015

Sexist ads in 'The Seventies'
July 10, 2015

Women’s Image Expert Jean Kilbourne on the Problem With Fashion Ads Today
March 21, 2015

Jean Kilbourne challenges America to consider how advertisements really impact you and your loved ones!
March 19, 2015

Social Justice Authors to Speak at UW Symposium
March 18, 2015

Advertising’s toxic effect on eating and body image
March 17, 2015

Making Unconscious Messages Conscious
February 27, 2015

Wellesley College honors West Newton’s Jean Kilbourne
February 22, 2015

Mujeres en publicidad con nuevo paradigma
January 22, 2015

Fem-vertising: El Nuevo Paradigma de la Publicidad

2014

November 4, 2014

Q&A with Jean Kilbourne
October 12, 2014

Sexy Halloween costumes for little girls give parents the creeps
September 19, 2014

Why Women are Only Heard When Seen in TV Commercials
September 10, 2014

Mujeres y publicidad: ¿ha cambiado algo desde 1950?
September 2, 2014

Female Empowerment in Ads: Soft Feminism or Soft Soap?
July/August 2014

Taking on Alcohol, Pharmaceutical, and Tobacco Advertising: An Interview with Dr. Jean Kilbourne
July 22, 2014

Jean Kilbourne on women in advertising and rape culture (audio)
June 8, 2014

After shock rise in rape and assaults Glasgow faces down misogyny
May 28, 2014

Do thinner mannequins make people buy clothes?
April 24, 2014

Sexual images bombard kids at ever-earlier ages
April 5, 2014

Jean Kilbourne TedX Talk at Lafayette College
March 4, 2014

Fat shaming: Insecurity, media drive those who mock the obese
February 25, 2014

Body slams, vicious dogs, tidal waves: How effective are violent ads?
February 18, 2014

Media critic examines advertising and gender
February 2014

Advertising's image of women creates public health problems
January 2014

Dove ‘Real Beauty’ Campaign Turns 10
Winter 2014

Center Acquires Papers of Feminist Advertising Critic Jean Kilbourne

2013

December 2, 2013

Seeking to see: Female artists working to reclaim their sexuality
November 16, 2013

Mad men can't buy her love; author speaks on ad addiction
October 22, 2013

Ad another thing: Sounding the alarm about advertising's ill effects on society
October 21, 2013

The power of persuasion: Jean Kilbourne's mission for media literacy
October 18, 2013

The media is the message: Feminist author, filmmaker Jean Kilbourne challenges us to think differently about advertising
October 7, 2013

Why girls Halloween costumes are so sexualized and what you can do about it
September 11, 2013

Kappa Delta hosts Jean Kilbourne at Colorado State

2012

September 25, 2012

It's all in the look
May 17, 2012

Where did all the real women go?
May 6, 2012

Dr. Jean Kilbourne to Keynote SUNY Fredonia 2012-13 Convocation Series
May 2, 2012

The Selling of Alcohol and Tobacco (Yale Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity)
May 2, 2012

The Selling of Food (Yale Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity)
March 11, 2012

Sex, lies and media: New wave of activists challenge notions of beauty

2011

November 27, 2011

Students Hawk Goods on Campus as Officials Weigh Their Response (subscription required)
August 9, 2011

The Sex Talk You Don't Crave
August 7, 2011

It's Time to Reshape Our Beauty Standards
April 25, 2011

It's Time for the Global Village to Stand Up for Our Children
April 14, 2011

Dr. Jean Kilbourne delivers powerful message on "false" advertising
April 11, 2011

Parents decry marketers who push sexuality on little girls
February 16, 2011

Media's Ill Effects
February 2011

5 Questions for Jean Kilbourne
January 2011

Miss Representation at Sundance Film Festival