No Alt Text Defined Click to Subscribe Now Click to give a gift Click to Renew Your Subscription Click to get a digital subscription Click to make a donation Click to buy the current issue

Ayun Halliday

Five Conversations About One Thing - Joe Kelly

An interview with Joe Kelly by Ayun Halliday, Illustrated by Photo of Halliday by DA Photography, appeared in issue Masculinity; published in 2005; filed under Activism; tagged advertising, Ayun Halliday, daughters, fatherhood, Joe Kelly, magazines, media, New Moon, parenting.
Masculinity
Years ago, Joe Kelly noticed a Maidenform ad reading “Inner beauty only goes so far” on the side of a city bus, and was hor­­ri­fied to imagine one of his young daughters as the subject of it. As one of the founders, with wife Nancy Gruver, of New Moon: The Maga­zine for Girls and Their Dreams, an award-winning, youth-edited publication, Kelly was well aware that the relationships between girls and their fathers hold an importance that’s too often dismissed or overlooked.
Read
0 comments
Syndicate content