Celebrate with us! To commemorate our 20th anniversary we’re hosting a one-day conference with a range of exciting speakers, guests, and even a few surprises!

Join Feminist.com to reflect on the last two decades of feminism, and to envision where we want to be in the next twenty years.

Confirmed Speakers Include:

Penny Abeywardena, Imani Brown, Soraya Chemaly, Dianne Cohler-Esses, Maria Ebrahimji, Ashley Ford, Laia Garcia, Carla Goldstein, Joanna Hoffman, Chung Hyun Kyung, Kathy LeMay,Kaylo (Kerri Lowe), Brette McSweeney, Elise Peterson, Latoya Peterson, Elizabeth Plank, Kim Reed, Genevieve Roth, Marianne Schnall, Diamond Sharp, Joanne Smith, Maria Torres-Springer, Latham Thomas, Adriene Thorne, Mini Timmaraju, Quentin Walcott, Jamia Wilson, Lindsey Taylor Wood and Brianna Wu and performances by The Arts Effect, BETTY, Sarah Jones and other surprise guests.

Program and Schedule

9:00-9:10

Feminist.com executive director Marianne Schnall Introduction to event

Performance poet, Kaylo (Kerri Lowe)

Watch Now

#SayHerName: A Spotlight on Black Women & Girls in the Movement for Black Lives

9:10-10:40

From the media to the White House, the lion’s share of the response to the #BlackLivesMatter movement, has prioritized the plight of young men and boys. But in a climate where black girls are suspended from school six times more than white girls, and African American women are incarcerated three times more often than white peers, the safety of black women and girls is often ignored—or at best, an afterthought.

#SayHerName emerged as a rallying cry to surface the stories of innumerable black women, trans women, and girls who have been assaulted, and or killed as a result of police violence. Shifting the spotlight to state violence targeting women of color, sexual assault by police, and law enforcement abuse of pregnant women, moderator Jamia Wilson and panelists will center the activism of movement makers dedicated to justice for black women and girls.

10:45-10:55 Performance by The Arts Effect All-Girl Theater Company performing an excerpt from SLUT: The Play

What Makes A Woman? The Next Frontier of Sexuality, Identity and Womanhood

11:00-12:30

Elinor Burkett’s controversial NYT op-ed, “What Makes A Woman” claims that the burgeoning trans movement may be compromising a version of womanhood previously designed and inhabited by ciswomen. Since then, a national discourse around the future of gender, sexuality, and identity has accelerated, with Laverne Cox, Janet Mock and Caitlyn Jenner moving squarely into icon status. This panel explores the changing face of both the feminist and the LGBTQI movements, and interrogates traditional notions of what being a woman means in our society and culture.

12:30-1:15 Lunch (Catered by girls from Lower East Side Girls Club)

Our Inner Lives: a Multi-faith Dialogue on Spirituality, Religion & Feminism

1:15-2:45

In the midst of an election season where moral debates about everything from health care, to confederate flags, to marriage equality, to reproductive rights fill the headlines, the voices of progressive women of spirit and faith are disturbingly absent. What does a moral imperative set by diverse women look like? In contrast to the patriarchal narrative that dominates discourse about our cultural and spiritual values, panelists and our moderator Carla Goldstein will discuss how they transform spirit into action as they navigate their faith, their resilience, and their activism.

3:00-3:10 Joanna Hoffman

Feminist Mass Media: Fact or Fiction?

3:15-4:30

Of the paltry number of women represented in front of and behind the camera, most are white, thin, young and hyper-sexualized. This limited archetype of “beauty” is also found in the vast majority of "women’s media" outlets – from lifestyle centric .coms to the most prestigious glossies. While some magazines feature “real women” in one vertical, others showcase airbrushed, nearly nude girls.

Onscreen the landscape is just as dismal. The wage gap persists, and the ability for a woman to find a leading role or to be hired as a director is nearly impossible. Though “women’s media” appears to have made some gains, the numbers and tradeoffs prove otherwise. Which begs the questions: is "women's media" inherently fertile ground for feminism, and can feminist media really exist in the mainstream media marketplace?

4:35-4:45 Performance by BETTY

Women, Leadership and Power: the NYC Edition

4:45-6:00

Women are still vastly underrepresented in leadership realms and in all spheres of influence including media, politics and business. With the backdrop of the 2016 elections and the candidacy of women presidential candidates for both parties, the conversation around women in leadership will be amplified. At our women’s leadership panel, we’ll tackle important questions related to women’s paths to leadership, how women are treated once they become leaders, what cultural and structural changes are needed, and how women can model new paradigms of power. Join our moderator Marianne Schnall and our distinguished panelists as they discuss these topics and more.

6pm Cocktails

Evening program:

Cocktail party 6-7:30

Tony award-winning playwright, performer and activist Sarah Jones will perform improv based on her new play Sell/Buy/Date.

Funds raised from this celebration will support Feminist.com, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization’s growth and future work.

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