Love Your Body Week
Love Your Body Week (LYBW) is an interdisciplinary event fully conceptualized, organized, and executed by Sierra College faculty, staff and students. The Love Your Body Campaign was started in 1998 by the National Organization for Women (NOW) Foundation as a part of their Women’s Health Project. The intent of the Love Your Body campaign was to call attention to negative and harmful advertising and its impact on women and girls’ self esteem.
At Sierra College, we have broadened NOW’s original intent to include body issues that impact us all. Faculty, staff, and students came together in Spring 2007 to present a week of events to celebrate our bodies in all their diversities—size, shape, color, gender, abilities, etc. This week of events was such a success that we soon began to hear requests to create an annual event. A planning committee was formed and we began working on Love Your Body Week 2008. The planning continues and Love Your Body Week lives on at Sierra College!
The week of events on the Rocklin, Roseville Gateway, and Nevada County campuses celebrates our bodies in all their diversities—size, shape, color, gender, abilities, etc. Specific events will include speakers, films, panel discussions, student projects, poetry readings, the Great Jean Give-a-way, and a display of the Body Secrets of Sierra College. Love Your Body Week is an interdisciplinary event fully conceptualized, organized, and executed by Sierra College faculty, staff, and students. The public is invited and encouraged to attend this free week of events.
Here’s to loving our bodies! And to another successful year!
Logo design above by Sierra College student, Candace Bolton (Logo contest winner for 2011 and 2012)
LYBW is co-sponsored by the Associated Students of Sierra College, the Sierra College Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance, Rainbow Alliance and the Sierra College Sociology Club
LYBW Student Logo Contest
Contest Information and Details
Feeling creative? Design and submit a logo for Love Your Body Week! The winning logo will receive $350 in cash and prizes. The winning submission will be used as the logo for Love Your Body Week during the spring semesters of 2013 and spring 2014.
What is a logo? A logo is generally an image or images that accompany a name. The focus of the LYBW logo should communicate LYBW and the following quote: “Love your body, take back the world.” Eve Ensler
Who can enter? Any Sierra College student that is currently enrolled in a course may enter the contest.
When is the deadline? Entries must be submitted by 5 p.m. on March 5, 2012. Late submissions are ineligible. The winning entry will be announced on March 22, 2012.
How do I enter? Submissions must include both an 8½” x 11” hard copy and a digital copy. Please include with your submission your full name, mailing address, phone number, and email address. Entries can be submitted at the following locations:
- Rocklin Campus – Weaver Hall 222
- Nevada County Campus – Library
- Truckee Campus – Front Desk
May I submit more than one? Participants may submit multiple entries, that is, as long as each entry is submitted with the appropriate documentation.
Who will decide? Entries will be judged campus-wide voting during Love Your Body Week.
How can I be disqualified? At the sole discretion of Sierra College, a participant’s entry may be disqualified if a participant attempts to do any of the following:
- to enter the contest through means other than those described in these rules and regulations; or
- disrupts the contest or tampers with the contest; or
- enters any content deemed as unacceptable in nature, which will be at the discretion of Sierra College.
How will I know if I won? Information about the winning logo will be shared with the public via a Sierra College press release and posted to the website once the decision has been made. The winner will be personally contacted by telephone or email using the contact information provide on the entry form.
The fine print: By entering, participants agree to
- be held to the officials rules and regulations and the decisions of Sierra College, and waive any right to claim ambiguity in this contest or its rules.
- release and hold harmless Sierra College and its respective students, faculty, and staff from any damage or liability of any kind arising from or in connection with this contest, including, but not limited to, claims based upon the infringement of a third party’s intellectual property rights or claims based upon the enjoyment of the award.
- release Sierra College from any liability whatsoever, and waive any and all causes of action, related to any claims, costs, losses, or damages, of any kind, arising out of or in connection with the LYBW logo contest.
- irrevocably and in perpetuity grant and assign to Sierra College all worldwide right, title, and interest in and to any logo submitted by contest entrants and to all intellectual property created by contest entrant arising out of participation in the in the Sierra College LYBW logo contest, and the ownership of same shall be vested totally to Sierra College for its own use and disposition. In respect of copyright, this assignment shall be effective for the entire duration of the copyright in all countries throughout the world and shall include, but not be limited to, all rights to derivative works and the right to alter the submitted logo at Sierra College’s sole discretion.
Any attempt by an entrant to deliberately damage any website, entry or undermine the legitimate operation of the contest may be a violation of criminal and civil laws and Sierra College reserves the right to seek damages from any such person to the fullest extent permitted by law.