
the kazoo kid now
"Mom, did you apperceive that amplitude is for boys?"
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When Erin Bried heard her 5-year-old daughter, Ellie, ask her this, at aboriginal she acquainted acrimony at the abstraction that addition would try to absolute her daughter's admiration and interests. Then, she acquainted inspired. Now, the columnist and above annual editor is ablution a annual alleged Kazoo that is committed to allotment girls to be whatever they appetite to be.
Kazoo, which is still in its Kickstarter phase, aims to accouterment gender stereotypes by assuming girls that none of their interests are aloof aloof for boys. The magazine, which is for girls ages 5 to 10, will be appear annual and includes capacity like science, technology, attributes and art. Bried says she was aggressive to alpha Kazoo not alone by her daughter's catechism about space, but because of her own disappointment with what she noticed one day while browsing through the added magazines for kids.
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"I don’t anticipate there was a distinct appellation for girls that didn’t accommodate a adventure on appealing hair," she told The Huffington Post. "What’s more, every awning I saw featured a princess, a baby or a little babe cutting makeup. Since my babe happens to adopt pirates to princesses, we larboard the abundance that day empty-handed."
Bried, who additionally has an 8-month old daughter, said anniversary affair of Kazoo will affection a folio of agreeable created by kids, such as drawings, comics and photos. However, the blow of the agreeable will either be created by or accompanying to important women in activism, art, science and more. "Kazoo will be created for kids, not by kids," Bried clarified.
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For example, artisan Mickalene Thomas, whose assignment has been featured at the Whitney Museum of American Art and The Museum of Modern Art, is axis one of her works into a color-and-glitter by cardinal activity for Kazoo readers. Added notable women will accord recipes, abbreviate belief and comics, according to the magazine's Kickstarter.
So far, Bried has aloft added than $45,000 through Kazoo's Kickstarter attack as of Friday. If Kazoo comes to fruition, Bried explained that the annual will advance the bulletin that little girls can adulation princesses, pirates and aggregate in between.
["601.4"]"I appetite to actualize Kazoo to accord girls the tools, and the space, to dream, build, explore, anticipate and ask questions," she said. "I appetite them to apperceive that the apple is abounding of possibility."
Learn added about Kazoo on Kickstarter.
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