OU is celebrating Women’s History Month by hosting a lunch with a well-known feminist, activist and blogger and holding the first National Feminist Coming Out Day.
Shelby Knox is a nationally recognized feminist and activist known for her blog shelbyknox.com and her award-winning film, “The Education of Shelby Knox.”
Her work includes consulting for groups like Plan B One-Step, Trojan and the Girls Leadership Institute, as well as being a feminist organizer, according to her website.
Knox is at OU as an activist-in-residence for the Women’s and Gender Studies’ Center for Social Justice, said Stephanie Deck, women’s and gender studies research fellow.
“She’s been working on a radical women’s history project and has done a lot of work on women’s history, making sure all women’s history is represented,” Knox said.
Students also are gearing up to celebrate Women’s History Month.
“It is a really important event to recognize the contributions of women to our society,” said Quinn Cooper, political science and women’s and gender studies junior.
National Feminist Coming Out Day will be next Tuesday on the South Oval.
The event asks people to come out and say they are feminists and explain what makes them feminist, Quinn said. It also asks people to post comments on their Facebook page discussing being a feminist and what makes them proud to be so.
Women’s History Month became what it is today after a petition in 1987 by the National Women’s History Project asked Congress to expand a weeklong celebration, as laid out by a Congressional Resolution sponsored by Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, and Rep. Barbara Mikulski,D-Md., in 1981, to the entire month of March, according to womenshistorymonth.gov.
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cjmays 1 year, 2 months ago
hmmm waiting for mustafa to make some idiotic statement about patriarchy......