"This is What a Feminist Looks Like" Sticker
Day Fact Sheet
What is "This is What a Feminist Looks
Like" Sticker Day?
To kick off Women's History Month, on March 1st
we ask everyone on our campus to wear a sticker that says "This
is What a Feminist Looks Like." The Women's Studies Program
makes and provides these stickers. By sponsoring this activity,
we hope to draw attention to the many ways in which diverse people
promote women’s rights. We propose to educate the campus
community on this day by breaking harmful stereotypes that cast
all feminists as white, or female, or politically radical, and
to open up the definitions of the word “feminist”
to more complicated meanings.
How do we make the stickers?
We create and print our own stickers on round Avery
labels (#5294). These labels cost us approximately $7 for a pack
of 300. We have provided a template of our stickers in Word
format and pdf format (larger
file).
How do we publicize the event?
We publicize Sticker Day in a number of ways. First,
our director sends a letter out to friends of our program and
university administrators asking them to wear a sticker on March
1 (view an example of the letter in Word,
pdf, or htm
format.) We include the event on our Women's History Month poster/calendar
that gets sent out to all of our students, faculty, staff and
friends, and gets posted around campus (view an example of our
2006 Women's History Month posterin
.pdf format). We also post flyers around campus advertising the
event. Finally, we publish an ad
in our school newspaper, which runs 1-2 weeks prior to the
event.
How do we distribute the stickers?
We make the stickers available approximately 2 weeks
prior to the event. We invite people to come to our office to
pick up a sticker. We also carry them with us so when we're out
around campus we can pass them out to anyone who wants one. We
will also mail them to anyone on campus who wants a sticker (campus
mail).
Do you have other questions?
Contact: Rebekah Kohli, Program Coordinator,
Women’s
Studies Program
Northern Illinois University
DeKalb, IL 60115
Tel. (815) 753-1044,
rkohli@niu.edu