"We teach girls to shrink themselves, to make themselves smaller. We say to girls, you can have ambition, but not too much. You should aim to be successful, but not too successful. Otherwise, you would threaten the man." - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Welcome to "How to be the HBIC: A Feminist Guide to Shaping the Women of Tomorrow"
This is a course designed exclusively for women, transgendered women, and anyone else who considers themselves at one point or another; female. It is a how-to course that runs a full school year and will teach you how to be the best woman you can be.
Let's define HBIC. Head. Bitch. In. Charge. Now it may seem quite vulgar but these words were chosen carefully by our staff. Our curriculum matches the Head Bitch In Charge acronym. In fact, every semester will focus on two letters. In the fall, we focus on the head bitch section.
From September to October we will find the right path for you and pin point where you want to be in life. We will give you the tools, and work on your image to achieve that goal. In that two month span, our wish is to start the transformation process from young girl, to respected woman. This course may seem easy, but trust me, we will challenge you to the core.
From November to December the focus will change to the bitch section. We will educate you on the modern world and what is has to offer you. Then we will educate you on the inevitable sexism, racism, and all other forms of discrimination so no one goes swinging in the dark.
Next Semester focuses on the last two letters of the acronym, I and C. From January to March, our girls will speak with accomplished feminists of today. Learn how they paved the way for the rest of us. Then we will all self reflect and pin point how to make ourselves better women. Consider this unit a crash course on how to work with what's within.
From April to June the girls will work on their final project: Taking Charge. Every student will create a form of activism to better their communities. Past graduates have made fashion shows exclusively for disabled women, organized a school wide hair donation to burn victims, and created security panic buttons and cameras all over campus, especially the fraternities, to alert police in the event of rape or other crimes.
There are no report cards for this course. In our class we teach the girls that self improvement never ceases, therefore we do not send report cards to mark the end of this course. To track progress, all girls will meet with the teacher at least four times throughout the year, and they will receive constructive criticism. Credit will be added to a student's account when the constructive criticisms are met.
As for the women who misbehave, we have a zero tolerance policy for delinquent students. However, before we terminate our course services to a delinquent student we do command a hearing where the accused student may plead her case, and as a class, we decide if that student should be allowed to rejoin the sisterhood.
Women are taught to shrink themselves. To be ambitious, but not too ambitious. To be successful, but not too successful otherwise they will threaten the man. HBIC, the course where we undo the ideologies created by oppressive men and instead shape feminists to fight the discriminatory battles of tomorrow.
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Runway:
http://imgur.com/5RLLFLL It's a risk kind of look, and I'm afraid that people are going to either love it, or want to burn it. Maybe I should have stitched a red A.
