Reminder: Please vote for Kiri Davis!

by Carmen Van Kerckhove

Last week I urged all of you to vote for Kiri Davis’s short film “A Girl Like Me,” a finalist for CosmoGirl.com’s film contest. The winner will receive a $10,000 scholarship!

Voting ends tomorrow at noon! So please head on over and vote right now! And vote again tomorrow morning!

Last time I checked, Kiri was in second place with 9550 votes, which is about 400 votes less than the number one spot. I know we can band together and show her some support!

“A Girl Like Me” does an incredible job of showing just how deeply we are affected by European beauty ideals. Even young children aren’t immune, as she demonstrates in her black/white doll test. You might have seen me blog about it at Anti-Racist Parent a couple months back.

Thank you to Tayari for reminding me to post again about this. And thank you to all the other bloggers who have urged their readers to vote. So far that list includes:

Birthmother; Reprise
The Chronicles of Munchkin Land
Family Living; Hatfield Style
this woman’s work
uplifting the cinematically tragic
a wrung sponge
No Snow Here
The Anti-Essentialist Conundrum
Tayari Jones
F-Words
Writing is Fighting
13.69
Third Mom
The Life of a Ladybug
Afrobella
Our Kind of Parenting
CarlaGirl

If I’ve left you out, feel free to email me and I’ll add your blog to the list. And please post a reminder today, if you can!

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Comments

  1. Kaywil wrote:

    VOTE!!! She’s only 45 votes above the other contestant!!

    Posted 12 Apr 2007 at 10:24 am

  2. Eric Stoller wrote:

    She’s at 150+ votes in the lead now! Woohoo! Keep it up people!

    Posted 12 Apr 2007 at 10:47 am

  3. Latoya Peterson wrote:

    She fell behind!

    Vote, vote, vote - and post a Myspace Bulletin to ask people to do so as well!

    Posted 12 Apr 2007 at 1:56 pm

  4. Eric Stoller wrote:

    Uh oh:

    We have determined that the online voting has been corrupted as a result of one or more instances of tampering with the voting process by users. As a result, none of the online votes will be counted, and we will submit all three of the semi-finalists to our panel of experts for final judging and selection of a winner.

    The winner will be featured in the August 2007 issue of CosmoGIRL!

    Posted 12 Apr 2007 at 6:08 pm

  5. Christopher wrote:

    OMG! All for naught! The online voting system has been disabled. The winner will be selected by an “expert panel” now…

    Posted 12 Apr 2007 at 6:21 pm

  6. roamingknowmad wrote:

    I just viewed all three videos and then tried to vote on the CosmoGirl site. I found the following message:

    “We have determined that the online voting has been corrupted as a result of one or more instances of tampering with the voting process by users. As a result, none of the online votes will be counted, and we will submit all three of the semi-finalists to our panel of experts for final judging and selection of a winner.”

    Our girl is indeed one of the finalists, but I wonder what “tampering” they’re referring to? I hope they are not referring to the groundswell of blog support Kiri Davis recieved as “tampering”?

    Posted 12 Apr 2007 at 6:26 pm

  7. hoo_boy wrote:

    … or would it have something to do with the “ballot box stuffing” encouragement from the note at the top of the page: “…So please head on over and vote right now! And vote again tomorrow morning.”

    If it was encouraged here/elsewhere, what’s to say well-meaning overzealous fans for the other two finalists didn’t do the same?

    Posted 12 Apr 2007 at 8:25 pm

  8. Sylvia wrote:

    But how is that “corruption” when the interface allows you to vote once per day? Isn’t that a little naive when you have three students in a film contest vying for a scholarship? If they really wanted better safeguards, they could have required a registration or something.

    Something’s up for them to can this at the last possible minute.

    Posted 12 Apr 2007 at 9:27 pm

  9. Margie wrote:

    I posted too, Carmen:

    http://thirdmom.blogspot.com/2007/04/vote-for-girl-like-me.html

    Posted 13 Apr 2007 at 10:53 am

  10. Toya wrote:

    I also put a call for votes on my blog, The Life of a Ladybug (http://lifeofaladybug.typepad.com), as did Afrobella (www.afrobella.com), but as you see above, votes were disabled.

    Why am I not surprised?

    Posted 13 Apr 2007 at 12:10 pm

  11. Eric Stoller wrote:

    My guess is that the CG system was based on IP’s and someone was spoofing the system. This kind of thing happens a lot with online polls. $10,000 is a lot of money and it will be interesting to see who the expert panel of judges nominates for the win…

    Posted 13 Apr 2007 at 12:11 pm

  12. Francesca wrote:

    Sad, but I’d be surprised if they selected Kiri’s video over the others. A video about “choices” or body image would be much safer, less controversial for the magazine than one that exposes the Eurocentrism of beauty in the US.

    Posted 13 Apr 2007 at 4:31 pm

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