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Are You Ready to Rock the Red Pump?

The Red Pump Project — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 17:15:12 +0000

Every 47 minutes in the United States, a woman will be diagnosed with HIV/AIDS. That is our cause. The Rock the Red Pump® campaign is how we take action.

We are 46 days out from National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (NWGHAAD) so we’re asking you for the FIFTH year in a row to #RockTheRedPump with us. We are working hard to make this year our biggest year yet, and we hope that you will join in this mission.

In the days leading up to March 10th, we will engage with you in a variety of ways designed to get you thinking AND to inspire you to take action on NWGHAAD and every day after. On March 10^th, we are going to paint the Internet (and beyond) red with blog posts, images, tweets, and events ALL dedicated to raising awareness about the impact of HIV/AIDS on women and girls.

Fired up yet? Awesome.

Here’s how you can #RocktheRedPump:

Register your website here and download one of five custom badges to boldly display on your page.
Follow us on Facebook for shareable image cards and cover photos that you can share or download for posting on Facebook, Instagram or Twitter.
Participate in #RockTheRedPump Twitter chats in February and March
Wear red pumps (or other red shoes) on March 10 and upload photos to The Red Pump Project Facebook page.
Pledge to share HIV/AIDS information with five women before March 10.
Join us for Red Pump events in Atlanta, Austin, Charlotte, Dallas and Washington D.C.

Do you have questions about the campaign? This FAQ sheet should help. Whether you are a first-time participant or an “old” pro, we thank you in advance for supporting this movement!

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The Tweets are Talking: National Women & Girls’ HIV/AIDS Awareness Day

The Red Pump Project — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:15:00 +0000

<p>&lt;a href=”http://www.coveritlive.com/mobile.php/option=com_mobile/task=viewaltcast/altcast_code=41ed1ea256″ &gt;The tweets are talking: National Women &amp; Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day&lt;/a&gt;</p>

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iRock the Red Pump

The Red Pump Project — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:00:00 +0000

by Luvvie

Every 35 minutes, a woman tests positive for HIV in the United States. This is this year’s theme for National Women and Girls’ HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (NWGHAAD). Created by the Office of Women’s Health, NWGHAAD is March 10th of every year. Its goal is to serve as a day for women to come together to encourage dialogue and educate women and girls about the HIV/AIDS epidemic and its increasing impact.

I am proud to be the co-founder of The Red Pump Project and one of the people “Rocking the Red Pump” to commemorate this day with millions of other women across the country.

I “Rock the Red Pump” because:

• Black women make up 66% of all new diagnoses of HIV in women
• Women are the caretakers and when we get sick, it truly affects those around us
• HIV is nature’s natural oxymoron. Sex is supposed to bring forth life, not take it.
• HIV is one of the deadliest diseases in the world, yet it’s one of the few that isn’t communicable (like malaria) or initiated within the body (like cancer)
• I want women to be empowered to live well with the disease (if they are positive) and for those who don’t have it to make sure they don’t get it

I also “Rock the Red Pump” because I feel like it’s my life’s work.

For these and countless more reasons, I will continue to “Rock the Red Pump.”
So this is the 2nd of many NWGHAAD where you will find me “Rocking the Red Pump” to represent the strength and courage of those women affected directly and indirectly by the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Awareness is always in style.

Here’s a list of other blogs that are “Rocking the Red Pump” today:

::fbi:: {feel beautiful inside} the blog | *EssenseVibez | A Day in the Life | A Lady’s Perspective | A Taste of Angel Cake | AAUW | Adventures in Divorce | Aesthetic Design Style | Affrodite | Afrobella | Aisha Turman | Allegory of an Underage Femme Fetale | AroundHarlem.com | Art Aids Art | Artiatesia Deal | AS USUAL | Ask Sassy Scribe | Awesomely Luvvie | BeautySchooled | Belle Noir Magazine | Big. Beautiful. You. | Belle Black Girl Blogging | Black Gives Back | Black is Breezie | Black Vixen Beauty | Black Woman Lost & Found | Bourgie, Interrupted | Brownngirl | C’est La Vie | ChiTown Fashionista | Chronicles of a Skinny Black Girl | Chronicles of an Uppity Chick | Circa 1982: Ramblings of a Little Brown Girl… | Clumps of Mascara | Coming of Age | Curvatude – Living Curvy and Plus Size with Attitude | CurvyGurl Chronicles~ Living La Vida Inspired! | Da Fashionist | Diary of Curvy Jones | Diva Living with AIDS | Divas Ranting | Dream As If You’ll Live Forever | Elbie | Elegant Ignance | Empress Says | Enlightn Me | Enlightn Me Events | Fabulous Moms in Charlotte | Fantastical Randomocity | Fashion. News. Updates. Shoes – Pumpsicle | Fear is no Factor | Feel Free to Answer Your Questions | Finding Me | Flaimahmy Magazine | [Fung'Ke][Blak][Chik] | Get Yoself Together | Happy Being Me | Having My Cake and Eating It Too | Healthier, Happier, You!!!! | Hey You Asked! | Hope Is Our Path | I’ll Think of a Title Later | I’m Just Teling You How I See It | Idaya Magazine | Idiosyncratic Thoughts of an Unheeded Prophetess | Ifelicious | Illustrocity | Intellectual Soul || Music with an I.Q. | Inverted Reflection | Ironically Aaronica | Island Mompreneur | Jenifer Moore Online | Jenny P. || INSPIRATION | Jessica’s Jewels | La Petite Maitresse | Lady Spin Doctors | Living Outside the Stacks | Luvv Divine | MamaLaw: Evidence for Our Insanity Plea | Max Logic | Megan’s Minute | Miss Jia: She Ain’t For Everybody | Moving Towards Peace | Mrs Windy City UnPluGGed | MsQuitey’s Place | My 927 Charlotte | My Beautiful Cocoon | My Black Girl Site | My Brown Baby | My Legal Belle | My Life – A Work In Progress | My Life…in Pics & Words | My Polar Opposite | Naked and Natural | Negrita’s Chronicles | Nola Girl in Transition | Not So Idle Thoughts and Musings | Nu Kynk | Of Service: A Life Lived for Others Pampered Sweet Tooth | Pigments and Potions | Planting Seeds | Pontificating Brother | Pop Rockets | Pretty Investigations | Project Nefertiti | Random and Pressing Details | Reaching Within | Reads4Pleasure | Reflections of a Gemini Artist | Reina’s Song | rellisonphotography | RSVP Event Planning and Management | Sable Verity | Secret Diaries of a Wannabe Yummy Mammy | Shannon Sez So | Shoes N Booze | Situations with Sassy | So Tenacious | Sojourners Verdad | Stripped | SURRENDERDOROTHYBLOG.COM | Tea and Such | That One Chick | The Anti-Hair Slave | The Atlanta Mompreneur | The Attic of My Mind | The Bead Dreamer | The Beauty XChange | The BlogRollers | The Broken Brown Egg | The Cocoa Diaries | The Essence of Full-Figured Entertainment | The Evolution of the Cubicle Crusaders | The Fabulous Do Gooder | The Fabulous Giver | The Fit Lounge | The FoolProof Diva | The Glamizon Chronicles | The Plus Academy: Ready to Runway | The Sassy Peach | The Single Dame (R) | The Soundtrack of My Life | The Young and Disenchanted | Things Aren’t Always as They Appear | ThinkAct: Proactive Black Blogging | This Ain’t That | Thoughts of a Jersey Girl | Thoughts on Being Seen | Total Life Prosperity Blog | Urban Perspective | Victor Amos Blog | We Are Black Women | A Blog Network With A Positive Difference | What DC People Hate | What Would Thembi Do | Where in the World… | Where My Ladies At? Women in Hip Hop | Whittier Rio Hondo AIDS Project | Wife Mother First Lady | Women of the African Diaspora | Www.krystalgrant.com | XI Magazine Online | Young Lioness

Oh and these are the ACTUAL Red Pumps I’m Rocking today:

Ladies, upload YOUR Red Pump pictures to our Flickr group or our Facebook page!

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P.S. Join us for a Twitter Townhall at 1pm CST. We’ll be moderating a discussion on Twitter asking folks “Why do you Rock the Red Pump?” and other questions pertaining to HIV/AIDS and women.

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500 in 50 – Get the Red Pump Badge

The Red Pump Project — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 07:17:00 +0000

Six weeks ago, we launched our “500 in 50: Rock the Red Pump” campaign, our second annual effort to recruit bloggers to raise awareness about HIV/AIDS and women in the days leading up to National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (NWGHAAD) on March 10th. If you haven’t, join us in “Rocking the Red Pump” badge on your blogs. And, if you have signed up, we ask that you continue to spread the word and ask your network to support the campaign as well! Together, we can get to 500 blogs!

When you join the “Rock the Red” campaign and display the badge on your site, send an email to rocktheredpump@theredpumpproject.com so your site can be listed.

To be part of the 500 blogs “Rocking the Red Pump” you need these badge codes. Badge/widget codes (just copy and paste it from the “center” onward)

Red Pump Badge for the top of your SIDEBAR:

If you’d like a vertical badge, use THIS CODE:

Red Pump Badge for BLOG POSTS:

Please make sure you send an email to rocktheredpump@theredpumpproject.com so we can add your blog to the list of Red Pump Rockers that will be posted online!

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500 in 50 – We’re Getting There

The Red Pump Project — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 19:00:00 +0000

Two weeks ago, we launched our “500 in 50: Rock the Red Pump” campaign, our second annual effort to recruit over 500 bloggers to raise awareness about HIV/AIDS in the days leading up to National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (NWGHAAD) on March 10th. We’re very excited that over 115 blogs have already signed up! If you haven’t, join us in “Rocking the Red Pump” badge on your blogs. And, if you have signed up, we ask that you continue to spread the word and ask your network to support the campaign as well! Together, we can get to 500 blogs!

There are some action items we’d like you to take:

* ‘Rock the Red Pump’ badge on the sidebar of your blogs in the 50 days leading up to March 10th. On NWGHAAD, dedicate your post to highlighting the issue of Women and HIV/AIDS. If you need HIV/AIDS statistics, we’ve created a post here for you to pull them from. They are CDC stats.

* Send us the links to your blogs – We are creating a list of Red Pump Rocking blogs, and keeping count. This will help us do so.

* Tweet and/or post messages on Facebook about the “500 in 50″ campaign. Don’t forget to include the hashtag #500in50.

* Learn more about NWGHAAD, and see how others are commemorating the day.

* Send this post to 5 bloggers who aren’t already “Rocking the Red Pump”

To get the code for the Red Pump badges, send an email to rocktheredpump@theredpumpproject.com with your blog link(s). We will send you the code for both the vertical badge as you see on this post, or the regular badge at the top right hand corner of this page.

As always, we appreciate all your support of The Red Pump Project.

Team Red Pump

P.S. Don’t hesitate to contact us with any questions you may have. You can also reach us on Twitter. Karyn (@thefabgiver), Luvvie (@LuvvieIG) or The Red Pump Project twitter page (@RedPumpProj)

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