The 11th annual WGSS Women's History Month Symposium focuses on the news media in its broadest sense and how it reports on gender, race, and marginalized identities. Here, we intend to examine the multifaceted term "media" as representation, creation, industry, ideology, and collective practice. In curated conversations, panelists will examine how progressive social movements are (mis)represented in mainstream media and news, but also how we attempt to challenge those narrow and false depictions. 

Using the frame of pictures, words, and lies, the symposium will dissect the many ways the news media construct and present the identities of those on whom it reports. Speakers will address power and possibilities in the domains of both image and text over the course of 4 panels and two roundtable discussions.