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FACE EQUALITY WEEK - MAY 13 - 19, 2024
My Face is a Masterpiece Campaign
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Each year in May, as an alliance of global NGOs working with people with facial differences, we come together for International Face Equality Week. It's a global, annual campaign to highlight the issues facing people with facial differences and to advocate for a better, fairer world for people who look different. Face Equality is a social justice movement devoted to ensuring the facial difference or FD community can live freely, without indignity or discrimination.
This year the facial difference community will come together change the misconceptions of living with visible differences through the #MyFaceIsAMasterpiece Campaign. We will share stories of triumph, creativity, and strength.
Together we can smash the myths. We can rewrite our stories. We can celebrate our individual artistry found on every face. Share your #MyFaceIsAMasterpiece Story. Please share it on social media and tag FACES National Craniofacial Association and Face Equality International. If you are able --- please include subtitles on your videos!
Tell the world what you love to do and what makes you who you are. Be an ally. Be seen. Be heard. Be creative.
Be an ally by building solidarity for the face equality movement. You can stop the narrative and share how each of us have a masterpiece.
#MyFaceIsAMasterpiece #FaceEquality
Congratulations Phyllida Swift, Face Equality International’s New CEO!
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Phyllida worked closely with James Partridge up until he passed away and is passionately devoted to the Face Equality mission. Face Equality International’s 38 member NGOs have been hugely supportive of this decision, and all are unanimously committed to ensuring the continued success of the movement, with a unified mission to serve people with facial differences across the world.
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https://faceequalityinternational.org/news/face-equality-announces-new-leadership/
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End Facial Discrimination
Charities united for 2020 International Face Equality Week
The right of being treated equally and without discrimination is what all people desire. The way someone looks should not determine how they are treated. Member organizations of Face Equality International highlight the issues and prejudices people with facial differences experience, including health inequalities, online abuse and hate crime. During the 2020... (Read more)
FACE IT
Facial Disfigurement and My Fight for Face Equality
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Written by James Partridge
An honest memoir of the battle after severe facial burns; it’s a practical self-help guide for anyone with a facial difference and a manual for health professionals trying to help them. And, finally, it’s a manifesto for face equality, rooting out the stigmas of face-ism that oppress us all… and urging new face values in our 21st century world.
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Available Here
In August 2020, Dr. James Partridge OBE, pioneer of Face Equality, passed away. Our thoughts are with his family during this sad time.
Our president, Kim Fox has written her personal tribute.
I met James Partridge in a Skype meeting with FACES in 2018. He spoke to us about Face Equality and the idea of an alliance of non-profits and NGOs around the world that would work together to bring an end to face discrimination. FACES was eager to be a part of it and soon became a founding member.
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I had the pleasure of meeting James in person at the first Face Equality International (FEI) forum in early 2019. His charm, wit, and positive personality put me instantly at ease. I learned so much and met so many smart people during the four days of that forum. The power and ideas in the air kept you on your toes. When James spoke, he led us all into his vision of a world where everyone is treated fairly whatever their face looks like. I left even more determined to help make that a reality.
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I had an email from James on Saturday announcing new members of FEI and on Monday I received an email telling of his sudden passing. I was in shock. How can this be? I just emailed him…there’s a meeting in September with his name on it that keeps popping up on my calendar. How can he be gone?
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I don’t know how FEI will move forward without James, but I know we will and must. For he started the revolution of Face Equality, and we have a job to do!
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Rest well James, for you have certainly have earned your peace. I will dearly miss you.
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Kim Fox
President
FACES: The National Craniofacial Association
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You can learn more about James here:
www.changingfaces.org.uk/about-us/how-were-run/staff/about-james-partridge
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Or read his new book FACE IT.
