Presentation Description of Event

The Feminist Event of the Year

We believe that feminism is the consciousness and activism against multiple inequalities in women's rights to facilitate awareness of oppression and create empowerment and change. We came to a consensus that feminism is a fight, through art, speeches, and many other methods to raise consciousness to society about the oppression that women go through. Women not only face this oppression in the political perspective, but also the personal perspective. Feminism is not only the fight to change the oppression that women face, but also to change minds and actions of people in society along with those of institutions everywhere. Our event, therefore, is based on this definition and is geared toward getting the spirit of feminism to the young adult/student demographic in order to facilitate a shift in attitude for our future societies rather than mold today’s society. The leaflets will be handed out on our campus as well as large universities in the DC Metropolitan area. We plan on hosting the national event at the Verizon Center with many key speakers and artists such as Oprah, Mavis Staples, Kathy Griffin, Bill Clinton, Sarah Silverman, and Mary J Blige. We believe that these particular artists, comedians, and powerful speakers would reach out and express what feminism should actually portray. We thought that Kathy Griffin and Sarah Silverman would capture the young adults’ attention, and start the show with comedy acts expressing the negative stereotypes that are commonly said about feminism. These acts would then be followed by inspiring speeches by Oprah and Bill Clinton, to state the positive aspects of feminism and what feminism encounters. Finally, the event would be culminating in performances by leading music artists Mary J Blige and Mavis Staples.

We believe that our event really represents our definition of feminism because by taking on such a challenging task as a national event for a wonderful cause, we are internalizing and applying many of the principles in Fight like a Girl and feminism. Instead of focusing on our frustration at the negative stereotypes of feminism, we are emphasizing and celebrating the positive and fantastic aspects of feminism. Our event is also going to be about bringing several knowledge worlds, each represented by a key speaker or artist, together to discuss the subtleties of feminist philosophy. Finally, we hope to create an environment where people can think free of their insecurities or social biases and truly form their own conclusions of feminism.

P.S. everyone please post up te other stuff that Katie King asked for in th presentation requirements wksht so we can get credit.