BBC Three Looking for Red Head

We get a lot of press attention here at Gingerism HQ. Our latest email is from Nicola Asamoa, a producer for BBC Current Affairs. She writes:

I'm looking for a red head man to take part in a documentary for BBC 3. The man must be 16-24 and will have felt victimised for being a redhead.

If this sounds like you and you'd like to be involved in the show, let Nicola know by emailing nicola.asamoa@bbc.co.uk.

New Sponsor
You may have noticed the present at the top right of the page. In an effort to cover our running costs we've got a new sponsor here at Gingerism HQ called Wishlings.

Wishlings makes it easy for you to build a wish list and better still, your friends and family can see your list and buy stuff for you! My wish list is here :) Using Wishlings will really help us out. Thanks!

Redhead Day 2009

This year's Dutch Redhead Day (Roodharigendag) is happening on Sunday, September 6th 2009 at Breda, The Netherlands.


The event is free to attend and involves art, workshops, lectures, a red head themed dinner, competitions and a picnic. There is also a picture taken at the end of the event which will include you and the up to 4,000 other attendees.

Readhead Day is for everyone, but especially all men, women an children with natural red hair are invited: whether you have many red curls, short hair, a Mohawk haircut or red beard.

To read more about Redhead Day and reserve your place, check out the official website.

Ginger Be Beautiful by Richard Tuttle

Richard Tuttle, the Band Director at Ada-Borup School District in Minnesota has written and produced a song about being ginger. Here's a description from Richard himself:

Zach, my youngest step son, was tired of being called a ‘ginger’ at school. Ginger, a British slang for a person with red hair, is often used to tease people. After Zach listened to the mp3 of my song, he was proud of his red hair. This will be point of the video: to show that having red hair is just as cool as having any other color of hair….or no hair at all.

Lyrics

She A Ginger
He A Ginger
We A Ginger
Be A Ginger

We So Pride No Hide
We See Me As A Pretty
Join As All And Shout
Ginger Be Beautfiul
Ginger Be Beautiful
Ginger Pride

Teen A Ginger
Ween A Ginger
Gene A Ginger
Been A Ginger

We So Pride No Hide
We See Me As A Pretty
Join As All And Shout
Ginger Be Beautiful
Ginger Be Beautiful
Ginger Pride
Show Your Ginger Pride

Ginger Foot

Hey, sorry about the hiatus from new articles. Work and a holiday have kept me busy but I promise to get back on track with articles and emails next week. I am also excited to be bringing on board more writers for the blog. Keep checking back for more information.

For now, I will leave you with a video my Uncle made of me whilst we were hiking up a mountain in Mayrhofen, Austria at the beginning of this month.

Ginger Dawn Flash Game

Ginger Dawn is a well polished game hosted by FingerTime. You control a red head, whose purpose is to copulate with as many of the opposite sex as possible in an attempt to spread the recessive ginger gene.

The missions are made difficult by the fact you can't stay out in the sun for too long without applying suncream, or you'll burn up!

Play Ginger Dawn

Thank you to an anonymous Gingerism reader for letting us know about the game.

Update: Gingerism reader Kathryn Allender let us know that Ginger Dawn is now available to play on FaceBook.

Redhedd: A social network for red heads

Redhedd.com is the largest, most active, & reddest online community devoted to cheerleading a beautiful noble rarified and dying breed.

Red headed or even just bearded? Enemy of the sun? "Freckleface" when you were a wee'n? Spend more on sunscreen than you do on shampoo? Or maybe you're one of the "others" but just can't seem to squelch your undying affection for the copper-topped. Well then join up! Membership is free and the redhead love is overflowing.

There's a great bunch of people over on the world's biggest redhead social network. Make sure you friend us if you join!

Are you calling me ginger?

Upcoming DJ Tim Cheddar expresses distaste at being called ginger.

You’re a gentleman of reddish tint; do you have Irish blood?
Are you calling me ginger? I prefer strawberry blonde. My real surname is Derry so I could be Irish Cheddar, I suppose. And I like The Pogues. But I don’t go around saying, ‘Top of the morning’ to people, so I can’t be Irish, can I? Eejit!

Source: Timeout Dubai