I have found yet another reason to love Amy Poehler (as if I needed one…) Amy, who is currently glowingly preggers with baby number two, runs Smart Girls at the Party, a website dedicated to empowering young women to be themselves and achieve their dreams. She co-produces a weekly web series that highlights girls with “a unique talent, community interest or point of view.” It’s done with a fun, quirky style that’s pure Poehler, and totally accessible to girls.
Poehler, the “actor, mother, dreamer, list maker, part time lipsyncher and full time goofball” and her two best friends, Meredith Walker and Amy Miles, aim to celebrate young girls who are “changing the world by being themselves.” The idea is to show girls that being smart is cool.
I think the whole concept is aboslutely brilliant and I sure as hell would have LOVED a show like this when I was a kid. I would have wanted to be one of those girls on there talking about my passions, for sure!
Amy told the Huffington Post, “The idea [for the show] came out of us wishing we had a time machine so we could go back to the younger versions of ourselves and let them know it was gonna be okay. We wanted to do a show that we would have wanted to watch at that age. And we knew we wanted to have a dance party at the end. We basically started with the dance party and worked backwards.” (I love this, because I admittedly have a dance party once a day!) Also, look for her hilarious husband, Will Arnett and friends from Parks & Recreation and SNL to pop in for dance party cameos!
Amy, Meredith and Amy represent real female friends and celebrate that stage of life where you write down what you want to be when you get older, before too many people tell you no.
The overall message of the show is: “Be yourself! And then tell us about it! And then let’s dance!”
With all the negative female images saturating our media these days, let’s just take a moment to say, “Thank you, Amy Poehler!”
If anybody knows how to bring the awesome, it’s Amy P.
Check out the link to an episode of Smart Girls at the Party.
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This is exactly what girls today need! There are far too many awful and degrading shows like Jersey Shore out there.
Comment by Sandra O'Connell July 15, 2010 @ 6:57 amAmy Poehler is brilliant! I LOVE the entire concept of this, especially considering the other terrible role models that girls have out there today. If only something like this existed in my younger days!! Thanks for introducing me to this, I will for sure be subscribing
Comment by aliciafashionista July 16, 2010 @ 5:24 pm