Blog for POV (PBS) broadcast of Girl Model 
The documentary Girl Model (airing Sunday, March 24, 2013 at 10 PM) follows model scouts who travel to remote Siberian villages looking for young teens suitable for modeling jobs in Japan. Rachel Blais, an experienced model who appears in the film, tells POV about her experiences, the glamorous myths of modeling and the effects of the industry on body image. Blog for POV (PBS) broadcast of Girl Model – Perspective from Tallin Black Nights Festival 
A couple of months ago I traveled to Estonia to participate in a Q&A for Girl Model at the Tallin Black Nights Film Festival. After the sold-out screening, the audience was given the chance to ask questions or comment on the film. The Q&A began with an uncomfortable silence, but thankfully, it was broken by a woman inquiring, “What questions do people usually ask?”
Blogs for the RQASF, a women’s health organization supported by the Canadian government. THE PRODUCTION ON HYPERSEXUALISED IMAGES: “IT HAPPENS EVEN IF HER MIND SAYS NO” 
If famous and respected celebrities pose on magazine covers in a sexualized manner, can we expect an underage model to say she is not comfortable posing in this way? COVER THE COVER : WHO INSPIRES WHO? 
A friend of mine emailed me a few days ago after she couldn’t help but notice how many of this month’s magazine covers on the newsstand were hyper sexualized. I started looking up the images and more and more I began to wonder, how much more sexualized is a Playboy cover?! Well, the answer makes… AN IMAGE IS WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS OR A THOUSAND ACHES? 
I was in New York during last fashion week from September 6th to 13th. From what I’ve seen, the diversity of ages and body shapes of models was very similar to what we’ve seen in the previous seasons, and by that I mean a quasi-total absence diversity. In the few cases designers made the choice to promote even the slightest diversity, it was mentioned so much that it could make anyone wonder if it is a good marketing scheme to make some people believe the industry has changed, when in reality it is far from being the case. … IN MEMORIAM 
Sometimes, it is only through suffering that one becomes conscious of the extant of existing issues. These 30 beautiful young people have all past away between 2001 and the present day, either from an eating disorder, a drug overdose or suicide. …