RHE309K: Rhetoric of Feminist Spaces
Kristen Hogan
Spring 2004

Bridging Feminist Spaces
Bringing Community Feminism into Our Classroom through Presentations

Mural on the Women's Building,
San Francisco, CA

Requirements
• develop an interactive presentation that involves the class and that engages with the texts and activities we've worked with this semester
• explain how your organization is or is not a feminist space
•  explain how your organization provides necessary (and possibly feminist) services to a specific Austin community
•  explain how your writing project fits with the organization's goals and needs
•  create a set of questions for the class to encourage discussion about a key aspect of your experience with this organization as a feminist space

Format
You may present and analyze your organization and your project through any number of formats; I suggest some possibilities here:
•  create a slide presentation of images for the class using either power point or relying on our overhead projector and take the class on a 'tour' of your organization and/or writing project
•  create a narrative of your experience for the class
•  write a script for a typical interaction at your organization for the class to perform
•  create an installation of your organizational space or your writing project by bringing in objects that represent the space of your organization or the space in which your audience will encounter your writing project
•  if your writing project was a presentation, give the class 'stage directions' about our roles and surroundings as audience members, and give us all or part of that presentation
•  if your organization deals with particular and varied communities throughout Austin, create an Austin map particular to your organization; include the places your organization provides outreach or holds events, your organization's home-base, the places that your audience accesses your writing project, the places your organization intends to create programs or feminist spaces, and take the class through this Austin-according-to-your-organization map

Handouts required should include (but may include more than)
•  copies of your final project for the organization
•  central information about your organization and your experience with your organization as a feminist space
•  questions we should consider when thinking about your organization as a feminist space
Make copies for our entire class, 16 copies (including yourself and me).

Time limit : 15 minutes; this includes between 5 and 7 minutes of the class discussion you will lead

Because I expect your presentation to relate directly to your work with and impressions of your organization, possible class discussions of your organization should not have 'covered' your presentation material.

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