Clifton celebrates International Women’s Day

International Women’s Day was marked with a break time screening of celebrated author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s TEDx talk, We Should All be Feminists.

The talk, which sparked a worldwide conversation about feminism, asks that we start to think about what we teach our children and how we can create a more equal world:

‘I would like to ask that we begin to dream about and plan for a different world. A fairer world. A world of happier men and happier women who are truer to themselves. And this is how to start: we must raise our daughters differently. We must also raise our sons differently…’

The students who attended the screening were really moved by the talk, which prompted a discussion on feminism and what it means to young people in the 21st century. Break time ended with a flurry of Chimamanda checkouts, including her fiction and an adapted essay version of We Should All Be Feminists.