Women’s rights activists and political changemakers Gloria Steinem, adrienne maree brown, Amanda Nguyen, and Tina Tchen know there’s strength in numbers—especially in the fight for equality. Now, they’re coming together to dissect the issues women have faced in the U.S., talk about their advocacy efforts and personal challenges, and introduce ways you can play an active role in the feminist movement in your everyday life.
Overview
Syllabus
- Meet Your Instructors
- Gloria shares the personal journey that brought her to the women’s movement and introduces her co-instructors.
- Unpacking the F-Word
- Gloria emphasizes the importance of intersectional feminism and dispels the notion that the movement is mostly white.
- Tackling Sexual Harassment in the Workplace
- Gloria discusses the history of sexual harassment, the strides that have been made with it, and what you can do if you experience it in the workplace.
- Valuing Caregiving and Invisible Labor
- Tina and Gloria examine how perceptions of caregiving and domestic labor impact people’s lives and offer advice on how to advocate for caregivers and paid leave policies.
- Controlling Our Reproductive Lives
- Gloria offers historical context for reproductive justice and shares how women have spoken out against a culture of silence.
- Tapping into Pleasure to Fuel Change
- adrienne maree brown joins Gloria for a discussion on how to bring pleasure into activism and why it is crucial to achieving liberation.
- Claiming Civil Rights for Survivors
- Amanda Nguyen shares her experience with sexual assault and how she and other survivors were able to achieve justice by turning their trauma into civil rights legislation.
- Turning Rage Into Action
- Amanda and Gloria discuss the role of anger in social movement building, as well as how you can begin to pen your own legislation and inspire others by speaking out.
- Breaking the Cycle Of Violence
- Gloria examines violence as a function of hierarchy and speaks to the importance of democratizing families in order to achieve democracy at large.
- Understanding the Wage Gap
- Tina and Gloria discuss the value of work as the wage gap persists more than 50 years after the Equal Pay Act.
- Rethinking Cancel Culture
- adrienne and Gloria examine the power of empathy and the punitive nature of cancel culture.
- Working Through Differences
- In this lesson, adrienne and Gloria share methods for conversation, mediation, and conflict resolution.
- Moving Beyond Binaries
- adrienne celebrates the erasure of constructs, offers advice for members looking to live beyond binary systems, and describes her hope for where feminism will lead us.
- The Power of Organizing
- Gloria, adrienne, Amanda, and Tina share their philosophies of activism, as well as the deep sense of joy, community, and transformation that social movements can inspire.
Taught by
Gloria Steinem, adrienne maree brown, Amanda Nguyen, and Tina Tchen
