Anna Akbari's Presentation

In Anna Akbari's thesis she explores self-presentation, new media, sexuality and the workplace, visual conformity and rebellion, techniques of the body and the transience of identity in a consumer society.  She states that fashion creates a "space of appearance" within the human drama, which facilities the individual's ability to speak freely and claim power. In her hair chronicles she talks about how we let our hair define our personality.  Everyday of our life we wake up and put on a mask.  It can either reveal or conceal our personality.  Throughout Anna's life she put on different personalities to see how she felt in each one.  Why is that society makes us choose a personality and from that how we live our lives.  Anna told the audience to break away from the norm one day and see what happens.  You will either get a positive or negative reaction but the experience is what counts.  And take note of how you feel when you break away from the norm.  At the end of her presentation she gave us very important message "Think, Write, Speak + Strategic Self-Presentation = HIRED".  All in all the presentation was very inspiring.