Not a thing of the past.

This week I started to look into some organizations and projects that I could expand off of relating to my passions, and I came across a website called dayofthegirl.org. The website is about a UN started holiday about awareness of the issues women face, and the accomplishments of women. On the website they guides to holding an official "Day of the Girl" event. One of the options was a night of the arts, both musical, artistic, and written. This caught my eye because I am very passionate about music and wish to go into to the business side of music, so this idea would be combining two of my interests and passions.

In my event, I would have locals artists of all types perform, preferable songs or art with a message advocating for gender equality. Additionally at the event I would set up a series of booths with information on issues facing women today. To advertise the event I plan on creating a video, SoulPancake style, asking people basic questions about women in their life, and hopefully getting some really hardy answers. At the beginning I will ask them whether they think they are a feminist and then again at the end.

I think that the issues that I will be bringing up in the event, such as rape culture, the gender wage gap, domestic violence, human trafficking, use of derogatory language towards women and "The Trans Question", are really important because people think that the womens rights issues have been solved and that the movement is a thing in the past.  In reality, the injustices women face today, are institutionalized so people don't realize that they are being sexist or that they are taking away human rights. My goal is to help de-institutionalize sexism, and help people learn to pinpoint the problems. Feminism and the womens rights movement isn't a thing of the past, so why is it so stigmatized?