10 Ways to Support Sex-Positive Journalism:
1. Give money! The Sexies are a labor of love. But love doesn't pay the bills. If you can give $100, $50, or $25, it will help us promote the awards, cover our expenses, and honor our winners properly. www.sexies.org/support.html.
2. Submit entries. Yes, readers as well as writers can submit. Articles have to have been published in 2007, in a general audience newspaper or news site, and meet high journalistic standards as well as our sex-positive criteria. Full guidelines, criteria, and a submission form are on our website: www.sexies.org.
3. Tell everyone you know. Blog about us, bring us up at opportune (or inopportune) times with family and friends and your local newspaper editor...
4. Make us popular. Join our LiveJournal community (sexposjawards), friend us on Myspace (www.myspace.com/sexposjournalism), post our site on Del.icio.us, Digg us.
5. Sign up for our announcement list. If you don't do LiveJournal or Myspace, sign up for our update mailing list, sexies_upate at yahoogroups.com, to stay up to speed.
6. Link to us. Even if you don't want to make a big fanfare, a link helps us in search-engine rankings.
7. Become a corporate sponsor—or connect us with your favorite sex- friendly business that might want to be one. E-mail info at sexies.org for more information.
8. Donate airline or Amtrak miles to get our winners to an awards ceremony. E-mail info at sexies.org if you've got a chunk to offer.
9. Mention us in a letter to the editor, especially our sex-positive journalism criteria and resources for journalists, both of which are on our website. If you've always been meaning to write in to your local paper about their sex-related coverage, good or bad, now's a great time to do it!
10. Ask your favorite sex-positive publications, and your favorite mainstream ones as well, to cover the Sexies. We think we're pretty unusual and would make a good story!