Courses

“Just Because A Woman Is Doing It Doesn’t Mean It’s Feminist:” Intersectional Feminism and Your Business

What is intersectional feminism and how does it apply to your business? Do you think of yourself and your business as feminist–how do you know? What does it mean to be a truly “feminist” entrepreneur? In this half-day course, we’ll discuss the difference between identifying as “feminist” is and actually practicing intersectional feminism, why that matters, and ways to apply it to your own work. 

Beginning with an introduction into intersectional feminism (class, race, sexuality, gender etc), students will learn not only how to speak/write with inclusion/intersectional feminism in mind, but to make sure their language matches the actions and intentions of their business. Using real-world examples, the course will teach students to analyze the “messages” websites, news stories and ads send, looking at them through an intersectional feminist lens. After a short coffee break, we’ll spend the second half of the class going over, as a group, what makes each of the participant’s businesses “feminist,” asking challenging questions as a group to see if it holds up to the standards we set earlier in the lecture and looking at collaborative ways to improve where necessary.  

Price: $600 for full day workshop/$350 for a day

Optional workshop/consulting: For an additional fee, each individual entrepreneur can submit their business plan/website and have it analyzed from an intersectional feminist perspective, identifying areas of strength and weakness, and suggesting changes to website/business plan/practices to improve/implement intersectional feminist values. 

Media Literacy for Entrepreneurs and Not-For-Profits 

Strain A: 

Geared towards entrepreneurs and not-for-profits, this short workshop teaches lay people with minimal communications training what to expect from interviews with media: how interviewing works, what your duties are, what the duties of a journalist are, how to write a press release that will actually get read, the difference between a news story and an advertorial, and how to get action if you have genuine concerns about a story after it comes out. 

Strain B:

Same as above, but geared towards marginalized communities, with an extra focus on how to tell a legitimate, professional journalist from unprofessional or exploitive one, how to protect yourself and your story, and how to ask for–and receive–trauma-informed interviewing practices from media professionals A good and simple primer for marginalized layfolk without media training on making good choices around interacting with media.

Price: $600 for full day workshop/$350 for a day (reduced rates available for marginalized groups and not-for-profits).