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National Bald Out!
You've heard of the "Great American Smoke Out" - the day when everyone is encouraged to stop smoking for just one day?
What if, for ONE day, all the bald women in this country (or whatever country you live in) came out in public with nothing on their heads? Imagine the effect! People wouldn't be able to assume that every bald woman they see has cancer. Bald women would become non-remarkable very quickly, just as bald men have. Women like me and other members of AW, who already go out in public bald, would instantly stop feeling so alone.
I'm thinking of making a YouTube video and setting a date for sometime during the summer (when it's warm everywhere). If I picked a date - say a Saturday in July - and put up a YouTube video now urging all bald women to join in on a National Bald Out THAT day, would any of you who don't currently go out in public bald do it for that one day?
Maybe we could get a news service "flash" out there and get TV and print media to pick up on the story! Anyone know how to do that?
I don't know what category to put this in...it's about society, and acceptance, and news, and promoting awareness...so, I'll just put it in Bald is Beautiful, and hope you all see it.
Please share this with other friends on AW and respond - YES OR NO...would you join in?
April 29
HERE WE GO! I just put the video on YouTube. You can find it under the title "Announcing the National Bald Out!", or at this link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXxBKwi-1lw
I hope you all like it! Thank you to everyone for their comments and suggestions as to the content, and special thanks to the lovely ladies who allowed me to use their photos at the end of the video. I think that adds a lot.
On the Bald Girls Do Lunch site, www.baldgirlsdolunch.org, there are some absolutely amazing T-shirts, buttons, banners...and loads of other fun items with two different National Bald Out logo designs, as well as a great one that says "Bald? So What!" I LOVE IT! Thanks so much, Thea! To view the items, click on "Logo Products", then click on "Bald Out July 19". Remember - 100% of proceeds fund the BGDL nonprofit's national outreach to women with alopecia areata, so your purchase of a National Bald Out T-shirt (or other item) will directly benefit women with alopecia.
The next step is for everyone to join the newly-created Alopecia World group "National Bald Out". Until we get the Group up on the Home Page, you can go to this link to join:
www.alopeciaworld.net/group/nationalbaldout
A big Thank You to rj for all his help!
I'll be posting more soon on the National Bald Out group.
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What if, for ONE day, all the bald women in this country (or whatever country you live in) came out in public with nothing on their heads? Imagine the effect! People wouldn't be able to assume that every bald woman they see has cancer. Bald women would become non-remarkable very quickly, just as bald men have. Women like me and other members of AW, who already go out in public bald, would instantly stop feeling so alone.
I'm thinking of making a YouTube video and setting a date for sometime during the summer (when it's warm everywhere). If I picked a date - say a Saturday in July - and put up a YouTube video now urging all bald women to join in on a National Bald Out THAT day, would any of you who don't currently go out in public bald do it for that one day?
Maybe we could get a news service "flash" out there and get TV and print media to pick up on the story! Anyone know how to do that?
I don't know what category to put this in...it's about society, and acceptance, and news, and promoting awareness...so, I'll just put it in Bald is Beautiful, and hope you all see it.
Please share this with other friends on AW and respond - YES OR NO...would you join in?
April 29
HERE WE GO! I just put the video on YouTube. You can find it under the title "Announcing the National Bald Out!", or at this link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXxBKwi-1lw
I hope you all like it! Thank you to everyone for their comments and suggestions as to the content, and special thanks to the lovely ladies who allowed me to use their photos at the end of the video. I think that adds a lot.
On the Bald Girls Do Lunch site, www.baldgirlsdolunch.org, there are some absolutely amazing T-shirts, buttons, banners...and loads of other fun items with two different National Bald Out logo designs, as well as a great one that says "Bald? So What!" I LOVE IT! Thanks so much, Thea! To view the items, click on "Logo Products", then click on "Bald Out July 19". Remember - 100% of proceeds fund the BGDL nonprofit's national outreach to women with alopecia areata, so your purchase of a National Bald Out T-shirt (or other item) will directly benefit women with alopecia.
The next step is for everyone to join the newly-created Alopecia World group "National Bald Out". Until we get the Group up on the Home Page, you can go to this link to join:
www.alopeciaworld.net/group/nationalbaldout
A big Thank You to rj for all his help!
I'll be posting more soon on the National Bald Out group.
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Permalink Reply by Mary on
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That's the idea, Gwennan! There has to be a first time, and I'm hoping a "Day" like this might give many women that start.
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Permalink Reply by Louise on
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Sounds like fun. I don't wear a wig or hat, but it would be awesome try for everyone else!
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Permalink Reply by Marie on
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I'd do it if I was completely bald; my unadorned head would be much more attractive if it was shaved completely. I would not be comfortable going out with little patches of hair hear and there. So, I guess in order to participate in a "bald out" I'd have to make the decision I've been avoiding for a long time -- to shave or not to shave! I'm supportive of the idea and tempted to particpate.
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That's the idea...to tempt toward changes you've perhaps been thinking of making!
Marie, have you seen the pics of me with the hair I had left the night before I shaved it all off? I had quite a lot of hair left, but I assure you I immediately felt better when it was gone and I was smooth. The expression on my face in the photo taken the day I shaved says it all. And, if you don't like it, you can always let the patches grow back. In my case, it wasn't long before the patches were gone, too.
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Permalink Reply by Erin on
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oh shirts would be a great idea! i work at a t shirt press to and could hook some up around here!
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Permalink Reply by Gwennan Thomas on
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Well ok, w have a lot of people who want to go bald! If there is anyone if Wales/Cardiff... let me know?xxx
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Permalink Reply by Theresa on
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This is a wonderful idea, would love to support it......if you get those t-shirts made, I would love to get one. Maybe once you get those going, you could take orders before ordering them, to help offset the cost to you, and so that you don't get stuck with an abundance of them.
I agree that it may be to big of a step for some, the world is un-supporting of things in which they do not understand or have knowledge of.
Great post though.....my hats off.....or in this case, my wig, to all of those that have the courage and strength to be all natur-ell!!! Hugs to all!
Resa
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Permalink Reply by Sheila Anderson on
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I'm gathering my nerves now to lay the wigs aside and do it anyway so I would support the day, especially if it's on a warm, sunny day in summer.
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Permalink Reply by Margo on
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Mary, This sounds like a good thing but personally I'm still very chicken to go out in public without anything on my head. Perhaps if I were in a group I'd be more likely to go out. I like the T-shirt idea though.
I admire the confidence of those like you that are comfortable with your baldness.
Margo
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Thanks, Margo. I guess for me it's a case of preferring (being able to handle better) the emotional/psychological discomfort of being bald, to the physical discomfort of wearing a wig. It's a very personal choice.
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Permalink Reply by BaldGirlsDoLunch.org on
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This concept of bald camaraderie was the genesis of the first Bald Girls Do Lunch when I launched it first in New York. It was clear to me that women especially didn't want any part of being in a sterile, fluorescent meeting room. Who would? Why not sit literally tete a tete, elbow to elbow in a format that facilitated conversation and camaraderie and always with a leader who could understand her challenges ( not the parent, as well meaning as they were, of a child with alopecia).
So the very first Bald Girls Do Lunch was " no wigs allowed" because women were telling me they wanted to test drive the bald option, but not alone. And it was to "do lunch" because the emails on the contact list were just annonymous addresses from people who read that I held meetings. That is, until I said, "Ladies! We're doing lunch and we're doing it bald". And that was it! Women came forward to introduce themselves.
The in-box filled up with women who said this was the opportunity they were waiting for. Another bunch weighed in to say" I want to come, but I want to wear my wig". So the very first lunches were no wigs allowed which soon evolved into the national nonprofit, Bald Girls Do Lunch with and without wigs. We're a catalyst for women to use all options. Women at all stages and all ages wanted to listen and learn and be inspired from each other.
For so many, our lunches are the catalyst for true self-acceptance, no matter the state of the hair------bio or bought.
So I'm enjoying this thread and hearing the truths from women which acknowledges that we are all at different places and different stages and it makes no difference because all of it is 100% normal. Each of us brings who we are now, mixes in who we have been and sprinkle it up with who we want to be as women who happen to have alopecia.
Life is short. Grab every opportunity that gets you closer to who you want to be and how you want to live.
And mark your calendars for July 19th in San Diego. The "working title" of our Bald Day is "Who Needs Hair?"..what do you suggest?
Thea
baldgirlsdolunch.org
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