Slide 1: Setting the Scene. Your first slide should give your current self an overview of the future in which you're creating this slideshow. What is the date? Where are you? Describe the area where you are living. What are the biggest changes that have occurred since 2024? You might find it helpful to name major social or political events that have taken place since then. You might also want to identify important events that have occurred in your own personal life. Slide 2: The Sex/Gender/Sexuality System. Your second slide should explain to your current self how ideas about sex, gender, and sexuality have changed. Have people invented new gender or sexual identities? Is there a totally different sex/gender/sexuality system? Are the words "sex," "gender," and "sexuality" still relevant? How do people talk about their bodies? about their erotic desires? about their romantic relationships? How does your future self identify? Slide 3: The Politics of Reproduction. Your third slide should discuss the themes of biological and/or social reproduction. How do humans reproduce in the future? Have new scientific and technological developments changed the way people get pregnant and give birth? Who do people live with, and how do they take care of each other? Who takes care of the children? What about elderly folks? ill folks? disabled folks? Do schools and universities still exist? What about hospitals and clinics? How do people access education and health care? Slide 4: Gender, Labor, & Racial Capitalism. Your fourth slide should discuss the themes of labor and capitalism. Does capitalism still exist in this future? If so, how have the changes in ideas about sex, gender, and sexuality changed the way capitalism functions? If not, what new systems are in place for producing the products and services we need? What products and services are deemed important in this future? Has science and technology changed the way we work? How do people decide what kind of work to do? Do people like working? Slide 5: A Typical Day. Your final slide should describe a typical day for your future self. This is an opportunity for you to tell your current self about your future self and how the changes described on the previous slides shape your day-to-day life. You can talk about who you live with and how you take care of one another. You can describe the kind of work you do - if any - on a daily basis. You can discuss your hobbies, your social life, what you do for fun, what you do for self-care, etc. What Should My Slideshow Look Like? Well, that's really up to you! Just keep in mind that this is a slideshow, not an essay. Rather than pasting long paragraphs into your slideshow, the text on your slides should be formatted for a presentation - with headings, subheadings, bullet points, etc. You are encouraged to use images to illustrate the points you're making on your slides. You can create your slideshow using the software or platform of your choice: PowerPoint, Google Slides, Canva, Prezi, etc. Just be sure to save your final slideshow as a PPT or PDF file, so you can submit the document to Brightspace along with your brief statement./nWST 103: An Introduction to Women's, Gender, & Sexuality Studies Project #3: Feminist Fantasies This semester, you will complete three projects: one at the end of each our three units. All three projects will provide you with the opportunity to explain the key concepts from the unit in your own words and then apply the concept to create new content. Each project will take a different form, so be sure to read the specific directions for each assignment. What Do I Have to Do for Project #3? For Project #3, you will experiment with writing speculative fiction. Specifically, you will imagine a future 20 to 50 years from now in which our ideas about sex, gender, and sexuality have radically changed. (You can decide how these ideas have changed; they just need to be different from today.) You will then create a slideshow about this future - and about your future self- for your current self. Finally, you will write a brief statement about how the course material informed your slideshow. Your statement must engage at least 3 assigned texts - one from each of our 3 units. WGSS & Speculative Fiction Speculative fiction is an umbrella genre that includes fantasy, science fiction, and utopian/dystopian stories and that often involves imagining what the future might look like. Feminist authors, like M.E. O'Brien and Eman Abdelhadi, see speculative fiction as a creative way of responding to systems of oppression by depicting a world in which these systems have been dismantled or completely remade. O'Brien and Abdelhadi hope that novels like theirs spark their readers to dream up their own versions of the future. "I hope this book inspires many, many more efforts at revolutionary speculative fiction," O'Brien told Arkles of Truthout, "We never imagined [Everything for Everyone] as a plan or a definitive guide; it is an effort at imagining ad thinking that is meant to be collaborative, shared, and transformed by others." This assignment is an opportunity for you to imagine what the world might look like if the current sex/gender/sexuality system was no longer in place. Drawing on the readings you've completed across the semester, you will try to picture a world that isn't organized around heteronormativity and the sex/gender binary. What Should My Slideshow Include? Your slideshow should consist of at least 5 slides, with 1 slide dedicated to each of the following themes. You are not expected to answer every question listed below. These questions are meant to help you start imagining. Note: You are welcome to create more slides and/or to cover more themes, but you are not required to do so, and your slideshow must not be more than 10 slides total.

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