Who We Are And What We Do

"It's a wonderful feeling knowing you're having a positive, and sometimes profound, impact on the lives of others just by sharing your own story. It can be hard and confronting, but so worth it." - Cassie



"The Bare Truth is a family of brave voices and brave people who refuse to stay silent, and I'm proud to be a part of that. There are so many stories that never get told, but mine won't be one of them." - Ji





"Being a model in the 2014 Bare Truth campaign was an incredible experience, and something that challenged me every step of the way.... The Bare Truth has been a project that challenged me to let go of my old fears and insecurities, and gave me reason to replace them with confidence." - Benny





"Through the support and kindness of the Bare Truth team, they made baring all possible and now I am more confident in myself than ever before." - Ashleigh

YOU'RE THE MOST IMPORTANT PART!





"Being a part of The Bare Truth Magazine was mind blowing, everyone was welcoming and friendly. It didn't matter how much or little you wore on the shoot, it was all about you an what you felt comfortable with. It gave me a huge confidence boost being a part of this experience." - Lee-Anne

So what will we do with your $$$?

$5000

$10,000

$15000

The extra $$$

We're super passionate about breaking down the stigma surrounding these issues so we can be one step closer to living without them. We need your help to bring the 2015 issue to young people all over the country, and whether you're showing us #howbigyourbraveis by #baringall in the 2015 issue, baring your wallet, or both, we can't thankyou enough. You're part of something bigger now - social change that will impact everyone.



Find out more or follow us on social media:

www.baretruthmag.org





The Bare Truth is a not for profit magazine campaign that aims to raise awareness for healthy body image and self esteem, gender issues, sexuality, the diversity of body shape, size, colour and gender, and for mental health issues, bullying, harassment and abuse, and to combat the stigma surrounding them. We encourage models to "bare all" for the magazine and share their experiences. At foremost, the magazine provides a much-needed space for young people to speak candidly about their own experiences and struggles; we hand the microphone back to young people in what is essentially their conversation. By empowering these individuals to see themselves out of the harsh gaze of mainstream media, The Bare Truth becomes a powerful tool to reveal the true beauty within all of us.The Bare Truth started out as a thirty women strong WA publication in 2013, and in 2014 released the second volume, this time featuring individuals who were male, female, fluid, and diverse in many other ways. In 2015, our aim is to go hard or go home – we're launching nationally in an effort to spread our message even further, and to combat stigmas that every young adult in Australia faces. We aim to represent and showcase as much diversity as possible – be it gender, sexuality, size, shape or colour – and encourage our models to 'Bare All' when it comes to talking about their experiences with mental health issues, body image, sexuality, gender, assault, abuse or harassment. Through this, we are challenging the stigmas surrounding these issues, and showing young people everywhere that there are people like them, and that those brave individuals got through it- and that all of us are beautiful in our own way.are the most important part of The Bare Truth. Without the brave individuals who #bareall for the magazine, or our awesome volunteer staff, we wouldn't be able to spread our life changing message. But we also need you to help us with one more teensy little thing.In 2015, we want to go national. That means a national photography tour, a national launch tour, a massive print run, more models from more places, and more hours than ever on the clock for our staff.We'll use the first $5000 to offset printing costs of the magazine. Currently the massive spend that is required to print the magazines comes out of our director's saving' account (boo!) and we'd like to be able to pay for it ourselves. Pretty please.If we double that total, we can offsets printing costs and send at least two of our team to travel the country and launch our magazine nationally- giving you the chance to attend a body positive fashion show, featuring models from the magazine, and pick up a signed copy of the magazine. Last year tickets were around $50- but if we raise enough this year, we hope to subsidise those costs ourselves and bring the price of the event down, and bring it to major cities nationally.If we triple that total, we can offset printing costs, have our national launch tour, and we finally get to start paying back our awesome staff. Every year our editor in chief clocks around 10 hours on average (every week of the year!), while our shoot staff will clock six 9 hour days and travel nationally for a week during the shoot tour, and our editorial team clock at least ten hours a week each of editing during the layout period. These amazing people give us their time for free, and do it at a cost to them – missing out on work, or volunteering products and services at no cost to us. We'd like to start giving back to them in the way many non-profits and professionals do across the country (psst, it's called wages, and it's super great!)Anything additional raised will go into making our launch tickets and magazine cheaper and more accessible to awesome people like you, letting us put on better and more frequent events, covering the day to day costs of running a company (websites, design costs, promo material, marketing, custom domains, emails, deposits on functions and events) and letting us pay more of our staff for their super crazy awesome skillz.insta: @thebaretruthmagazine