WBB POST-ITS PROJECT
Join the Orange Post-It Revolution!
Body-positive post-it notes as submitted so far. Keep 'em
coming, folks!
Here are the post-it submissions we've received so far.
We'll be updating the map with orange dots to show all the cities
across the world that get post-ited.
On a blog!
Buenos Aires, Argentina
"There
you have the ones that I made. I'll try to take pics of wherever I
paste them. Some of them say 'THINK ORANGE' on the back so that when
they are thrown away another msg is sent."
One of several in restrooms at Luther College, Decorah, IA
This was mentioned in a blog called Tears to Words here
and here!
Thanks Arielle!
Disabled toilet, and Kmart change room in Bay Village, NSW Australia
A blog
post about posting these post-its!
- by Claire of InsideBeauty.org
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Quinpool Rd.
(outside Eating Disorders
Action Group & inside their office on bookshelf.)
OSU - The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States.
"I
posted across the OSU campus, in public bathrooms, on a trashcan, on a
bulletin board full of announcements, and even just sitting on a pole."
A
Post on Mamavision's blog
(The Orange Revolution is mentioned there...)
Fitting Rooms, Victoria Secret, Florida Mall, Orlando
Singapore, McDonald's (Located beside Odean Towers, North Bridge Road)
University of Maryland campus bathrooms and stairwells
This one is in the women's bathroom in the library at the University of
Cincinnati, Ohio
"... there are 20 others posted all
around the campus women's rooms ... for a start!"
A high school bathroom in Cinncinnati, OH
Project Unplastic has a blog entry on this project. (Webmaster for realfemalesunite.com)
A restraunt called Jack Sprats in Los Angeles, California (West LA)
A coffeehouse in California
Ladies room, Bay Village shopping center in Bateau Bay, NSW Aus
(Note: the scale had an orange on
it!)
Kroger Stores throughout Spring Grove Village, Cincinnati
University of Cincinnati Bathrooms (over the whole campus)
Starbucks, Lexington, Kentucky
Sacramento, California, USA
"I
took... the err... liberty of making a button for use on websites or
blogs (and I want to make sure it's okay with Muse before anyone uses
it) but it's here... and if it's okay then we can use it for this..."
(Ohio. These were posted all over the
place there!!!)
Sacramento, California, mental health counseling office
(inside magazine in waiting area)
Ladies room of Erina Fair in NSW Australia
Sacramento, California, USA
In a college bathroom in Sacramento, California, USA
On a blog.
Posted in Livingston, Montana, USA.
On a palm tree in South Beach, Miami, USA
A Wal-Mart bathroom in Michigan, USA
La Guardia Airport, NYC, USA
Sacramento, California, USA
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Click to enlarge thumnails. We'll
post more as they come in.
Some reported post-its without pictures:
"I just wanted to say that all bookstores near me that carry "wasted" now have a "we bite back business card" in it that I made. In it has the url and the message that you are beautiful. I chose that book because it was so triggering for me while I was activally anorexic. It didn't have a very hopeful ending either...." - Somewhere in Florida, USA
"You are not your job, you are not the clothes you wear, you are the words that leave your mouth so speak up, speak up LOUD. - www.webiteback.com" - reportedly posted in London Euston station.
"HELLO FROM SINGAPORE! I found this site and as someone who just started recovery, I thought this idea was wonderful - I only have one picture which I stuck in a McDonald's (Located beside Odean Towers, North Bridge Road if I remember correctly) but I've stuck one on a traffic signal post, some metal box thing and on a wall of a construction site. I'd place post-its in my school but I've terribly afraid of expulsion for vandalism! Will continue to place more post its!" - Somewhere in Singapore
"I
took... the err... liberty of making a button for use on websites or
blogs (and I want to make sure it's okay with Muse before anyone uses
it) but it's here... and if it's okay then we can use it for this..."
- Willow contributed the card design
to the left. Feel free to use!
"Okay, I made awesome "buisness cards." There are ones up at this awesome coffee shop in Los Angeles... I put one in the bathroom and they also let me post one on their board... Also, my therapist put some of them next to her buisness cards..." - Los Angeles
"I also decided to print off posters to hang next to the Women's Center at my University... as well as any where else I can find. Just letter size sheets with a "love yourself" phrase on them and the WBB address at the bottom. I'm also going to post-it again next week right before classes start because I bet a bunch go before then. I am also going to go to a lot of different places and put up the 'posters' on those free "ad" boards... I know they might get taken down... but maybe someone will see them before they do!" - Ohio
"...post-it in a bathroom at a Mexican restaurant. However, the light in the room wouldn't allow me to take a picture. Can I get put on the map anyways? Haha.." - Somewhere in Mexico...
" 'Start a trend - Love your body - webiteback.com'. I stuck them in a public disabled toilet and on a set of scales that they have sitting outside the womens toilets... Its hard to stick post-its when your pushing a trolley full of shopping lol. Next time i'll take a pic - promise!!" - From NSW Australia... and she submitted a photo the next week.
"There are a few in San Diego and Big Sur,
CA... from recent trips. 
Oh and I PLASTERED Beverly
Hills!" - California, USA
"... and in Culver City, Ca, Northridge, Ca..."
"I was at a Don Pablos in Whitehall, PA today for lunch. I carry around a package of post-its in my handbag so that if I am somewhere I'd like to leave a body positive post-it, I am ready. Well, today I left a post-it in one of the bathroom stalls in the Ladies' Room. It read: "Beauty is not a state of body. It's a state of mind. Love your body." And of course, I added the webiteback.com url. There was a party of 60--yes, 60--teenagers in the restaurant, and a ton of teenage girls were clamoring into the Ladies' Room. I am sure they saw the post-it and I feel good. :) I was on lunch break from work, so I didn't have my camera with me and thus could not take a photo of my post-it. But I thought I'd share the story just the same."
Blogs that mention us:
Project
Unplastic has a blog entry on this project. (Webmaster for realfemalesunite.com)
The other blogger who has mentioned
this so far is the webmaster for firstourselves.com.
Stop hating your body! I think that this has been brought up before, perhaps in a photo thread a few months back?
Anyway, today whilst in London I nipped to the loos and saw somebody had scrawled in black marker pen on the side of the cubicle 'start a revolution today... stop hating your body!'
It really made me smile.
And it made me think. Such a small act of 'niceness' for want of a better word, brought such a big smile to my face.
What can we do as a group of people to help other people feel better about themselves? To put a smile, be it momentary, on the faces of others?
I've thought about putting positive messages out there after . I don't want to vandalise though. I've thought of writing out little messages on orange post-it notes and popping them in toilet cubicles wherever I go.
Or leaving little pieces of paper with messages on them in library books that I borrow from uni.
Or telling random people in the street that they look pretty if that's what I think. Speaking my mind in a positive way. I often see somebody wearing a dress I love and that I think they look stunning in, but hold back from telling them so for fear of freaking them out or sounding bizarre.
But if somebody told me that I looked pretty, I would smile all day.
Somebody once did, whilst I was out clubbing. A girl just came up to me in the middle of the dance floor and told me I looked beautiful. It was such a small act of kindness but it meant the world to me and I had a fantastic night.
What do you lot think? Perhaps we could colour code these messages and put them on orange post-its or write them in orange marker pens and write the website on the bottom or back of them.
Perhaps... I don't know. I want to do something small that makes a big difference.
Ideas...
- Alice Star
I've been building a page out of these submissions with a google maps API... but it's a work in progress. Take a look. - muse
Body-positive post-it notes as submitted so far. Keep 'em
coming, folks!
Feel free to email us photos of post-its (Let's not vandalize the world! Use post-its.) you've posted with body-positive messages and the webiteback.com URL written on the front or back, and we'll post pictures here. Say something body positive. We need to remind each other of what's real and important in life... something that encourages everyone to be strong and alive... to those who most need to hear it but least likely to say anything. Want to share a story about trying this out for yourself? Happen to see one of these strange post-its? Email us to let us know!
