Audience watching this all over the country, all over over the world. We love cspan. At the institute, our focus is providing young women with conservative role models and giving them the knowledge, confidence and enthusiasm to fight for freedom, limited government and moral values. S. The moral values are Founding Fathers believed in. Im pleased to introduce stacy dash and her book. You may remember her from the 1995 it movie clueless. This was set in a high school and she plays the friend of the attractive, wealthy and spoiled main character. Stacy writes about clueless in her ran new book titled there goes my social life, from clueless too conservative. She chronicles her journey from a hollywood liberal to an outspoken conservative. Once stacy came out in hollywood as conservative, she she began utilizing her unique position as a wellknown actress to voice her opinions and encourage discussions on topics ranging from popculture to critical policy issues. She joined fox news, two years ago and serves as a contributor and is a great addition to theii show the five. Stacy has changed hollywood and our country so much the better. She has encourage so many americans, especially young women like many of you in this room to not be afraid to courageously speak out and worko as hard as you can for what youo truly believe in. Stacy makes us all stronger with her straightforward confidence, her tenacity, with the incredible transformation of her own life and her devotion to americas greatness. Please join me now in enjoying a minute of clips from clueless and then in welcoming stacey dash. Shes my friend because we both know what its like to have people be jealous of us. Girlfriend. I must give her prep for her courageous fashion efforts. Dion and i were both great singers of past you now do infomercials. Turn right, get out of the lane. Go straight, go straight. What i do . Just relax im here with you. Dion youre up. Oh no, i have a note for my tennis instructor and he would prefer if i didnt expose myself to any training. Fine, amber . My Plastic Surgeon doesnt want me doing an activity where balls fly on my nose. There goes your social life. Stacey dash. [applause] thank you. Gosh, look at at all of you, so beautiful and young. You have your whole lives ahead of you. B im going to start this off byat reading something that is very important to me. Its a poem by john clare. E its called i am. I am and yet what i am none cares her nose. My friends forsake me like a memory loss. I am the self consumer of my woes. They rise and vanish in oblivious host, like shadows and loves frenzied stifle throws. And yet, i am and live in like papers tossed into the nothingness of scorn and noise, into into the living sea of wakes and dreams, where there is neither sense of life or joys, but the vast sit shipwreck of my lifes esteems. Even the deer is that i love the best are strange, nay rather stranger than the rest. I long for scenes where in man half never tried, a place where women never smiled or wept. They there to abide with my creator, god, and sleep as i in childhoods sweetly slept untroubled and untroubled where i lie the grass below, above the vaulted sky. Now that poem is very important to me because the end part where it says where i in c childhood sweetly slept, i unfortunately never got to experience that. I never got to experience sleeping sweetly untroubled. That wasnt my life. I saw my first dead body when i was three. I have to say that wasnt the most are maddock thing. I could tell you he was dead by the look in his eyes. What i saw was intense peace. Suddenly all my fear went away. If you dont fear death, what is there to fear . Nothing. I was free. After that, i had a sexual abuse incident happened and my parents had left me with a family that was taking care of me. I dont want to tell you too much because i want you to read the book. Ill just give you a little taste. That was difficult because i didnt want to be there. Ou i wasnt safe. They were drug addicts so they didnt really think about that much. I had to take care of myself ane i, unfortunately didnt listen to the mother of the house who told me dont go into soandsos room if he asks because he was 16. He offered me candy one day and i went in. I didnt listen. I i didnt listen to what i was told. So i came out and well, youll youll read it in the book. Lly y it wasnt nice. Finally my mother brings me home and i have a little brother which was my joy and hes my little baby. My parents were not well. T they were worse than they had ever been. My mother tried to take her life and i saved her life because i found her. Ne i was told to leave her alone but i was a fiveyearold and i was stubborn stubborn and i like to do things my way so i went in and i tried to wake her anyway but i couldnt. I screamed for my cousin and she came in and the next thing i knew she was taken away in an ambulance. I then later realized that she had tried to commit suicide. I had an uncle, my uncle ferdinand who was a very powerful figure in my neighborhood. I grew up in the south bronx. It was great because the neighborhood, everyone was like family. You played in the streets and you played jump rope and hopscotch and skip all you talk to each other and you ran around and you played tag and you played games but there was also a dark element. Im im not going to lie. Thankfully i had an uncle who had a lot of prestige and power. My uncle freddie always told me, your special. Something about you is special and you can do anything you want to do in this life. Dont ever be anybodys trek and when the jesus train comes, make sure you are on it. As it little girl i got the jesus part. The trick part, i thought he o must mean dont let people play tricks on me. It wasnt until i was 12 and i i found out that he was a and that he was talking about something else. He was my favorite uncle because he showed me love. So much love. Ov he took care of me and amy feel like i was special because my mother never did appear my mother never told me i was pretty or beautiful or special or any of those things. I feel like if your mother doesnt tell you, no matter who does in your life and never sinks in. They can say it in magazines, they can say it on tv, a man can tell you every day but if your mother never tells you, it will never sink in. So im still in search of that feeling of i am beautiful. I still have to wake up in the morning and say to myself stacy, youre worth it, youre, youre good enough. rr its still a battle. I have to get that courage and that fortitude to stick to doing that from god. He is the only one who can make me feel better. I can do all of these otherak things that you will read about in the book and i made a lot of mistakes, ive been married three times, divorced three times, but i but i have two beautiful children. My son is special. I almost didnt have him. I was pregnant with him at a time where i was doing things i should have been doing. I was doing drugs. You think after having parents who did drugs i would know better, but i did them in spite of myself. I did them because me being a good girl wasnt good enough so instead of hurting them, i just hurt myself. When i fou when i found out i was pregnant, i was so far along that i was in an abusive relationship and the man i was with was beating me on a regular basis and i just thought, i cant cant bring a child into this world. They so they had to put me under, they they put the iv and me but i was crying. I was crying and crying. I couldnt stop. This was later on in my life. I had known how to teach myself to stop crying. I learned how to be mad instead of sad but at this moment i couldnt stop crying so i said to god, god you have to tell me what to do. I dont want to sign, i dont want to signal, you have you have to tell me what to do. This doesnt feel right. Something is wrong. God spoke to me like im speaking to you right now and he said keep your son. He even told me it was a boy. I ripped the iv out of my arm, i jumped up and the nurses that i was crazy and they said come i down, whats wrong, wrong, but you get that feeling, theyre going to take it. I had to get out of there. I was keeping my baby. My doctor said just hold on, lets do a a sonogram and make sure everythings okay. That was the best thing he couldve ever done because when we did that sonogram, i saw this little peasized heartbeat inside of me. All i could think was how couldc you possibly have imagined getting read of this little life growing inside of you. I just thought, its you and me kid. Thats it because i knew the man i was with was not going to be around and i knew the other man that was stalking me was going to not stop stalking me so i was going to fight for me and my son my son suddenly made my life important. I stopped doing all drugs, i stopped doing anything bad for my body but i couldnt stop the outside things that were happening to me. My son and i, i had my my son and i got a job, thank god, my acting career was going well and everything was fine. Then my son turned three and we had to move because i was being stopped. He found out where i live so id move and id move. I moved about five or six time. L i can even tell you. T a gun. At three days old i got a gun. I said thats enough. Thankfully i did because thissme man decided to break the door in off the hinges and come in side the house. My son was upstairs. He beat me up and so i ran upstairs and i got my gun and i tried to kill him. I tried and i shot at his head. I wanted him dead. Thank god i missed. But the moral to that story is, what im doing now at my age, because i have a 12yearold little girl, i decided im no longer going to have premarital premarital. Im not going to do it anymore. Its a part of my soul that is precious and the only person who deserved that as a man who has vowed to god to stay with me for the rest of my life. I now understand what marriage is and how important it is to children. If im teaching that my child who is 12, no premarital sexmac, then i have to do the same thing. The best way to teaches byby example is by example so thats what im doing. My strength, i believe to standy up for what i know to be true for me and i know to be true and valuable to god comes from god. So when people say to me, how do you take all the heat you get in all the backlash, its not me. Its the grace of god. All i can say to you girls is as you are growing, theres so much that youre going to face and so many things youre going to want to do and so many men who are going to make you want to do things, but remember, you are valuable. Before your valuable, you are worthy. Youre worthy of gods love. We are grateful that gods love is unconditional. Hes always forgiven. I believe its never too soon and its never too late. With that, i will open it up to you. You can ask me whatever you want [applause] you are one very brave lady. Thank you so much for sharing your stay story. Ladies, students, if you wouldnt mind, line mind, line up to ask questions. Please give your name and a college and dont be shy. Please dont be shy. Come on up, stand up and ask. Stacy, thank you. Thank you for sharing your stor its very admirable that you opened up and shared this with all of us. Im sure your struggle has been a really difficult road. I would say what has been your biggest challenge with facing the world . My biggest challenge is men. I want to be loved. I want to be married and my biggest challenge is sticking to my bow to god and that is my biggest challenge because i love love. I have to learn to take it slow and trust god that he will come, my knight in shining armor. My name is have a girl, you can call me abby, im from. [inaudible] you were a liberal in college. What was that transition when you decided you were going to be a conservative. Was it a slow process . There was a moment. Be i was having conversation with a man i was dating at the time and he was a very wealthy man and we were talking about social issues and i said to him, that doesnt sound right, that sounds take socialism. He said stacy, this is socialism. Youre living in a socialistic society. I said no, that cant be right. I said i dont like obama and what hes doing but its not socialist. So i thought about it and i started paying more attention to politics and how they apply toio life and what should i do about it and what i did is i tweeted what i did, vote for romney, the only hope for your future and i got the backlash because people thought because im black i have to vote for the black man which is absurd. You should dredge people by their character, not by the color of their skin. Thats why believe. I think thats what everyone should believe. Absolutely. Thank you my names emily. Do do you have any advice for women on College Campuses who are being blacklisted for their conservative ids ideas. Plant your feet firmly and what you believe in and stand. N dont defend yourself because you have nothing to defend. You have a right to your belief. If somebody wants to bully you, they are the ones with the problem, not you. God bless yoand i commend your bravery. My name is claire and i was wondering do you think there are any conservative women in particular who you look up to . Yes, margaret thatcher. I love her. I loved her conviction and i love how she went and achieved so much even though so many people tried to tell her no, you cant and no, thats impossible thats impossible. She proved it was possible. My name is andrea. I was wondering if you could elaborate on your experience. E the people who are made true friends are supportive. There are a lot of people who are no longer my friends. They just stopped talking to me. Family members as well. Thats okay because i believe if god wants you to do something he opens up the door and all you have to do is walk through them. Thats what im doing. Thank you. Thank you. [inaudible] thats very sweet, thank you. Hillary clinton says now young women can dream of being president and i never thought of that. Yes and thank you she started that. I was just wondering what you would say to people, we have a huge problem with empowering young women. There is now people who want to vote for her to empower women. What do you say to young women who are not in this room. [inaudible]if youlk when you talk to young people around the country, if you talk about hillary, how, how do you present the future to young women who look to her for guidance. I say two women, i have a new brand and its called stacy america. One of my platforms is 21st century feminism and that is being a lady, just like every single one of you that i see in here. Dressing like a a women, behaving like a lady, using all the tools god gave you and dont ever let anyone shame you if you do use those tools. You dont have to dress like a man would dress if he was dressing like a woman which is how she dresses. You know. [laughter] you can still be beta full and where he addresses and do your hair and makeup and still be taken seriously and run for president. You dont have to be like her. Please dont be like her. I know you talked a lot about feeling beautiful and those struggles and i know im sure every single girl in this room has felt not beautiful and not worthy. Is there a particular verse or passage you run into when you dont feel enough. I wish i yes, its 139. Where is my sister my sister . Yes, thank you. That one. Thats the one. Is that the one where he says i know you by every grain of sand and ive counted every hair in your head and your mothers womb question yes, thats, thats the one i go to. Thank you for your help. My name is danielle as well. I know the other danielle was mentioning your faith and how that impacted you. I wonder if that had any impact on your conversion to conservativism and your resolve . Yes, absently. I feel like our country has fallen into the wrong hands, if you know what i mean. Its becoming darker and darker. I dont want that. I do not want that dark evil presence to take over our world and i want to fight to make that happen. Im willing to give my life. Thats what i want to do. Im from outside Atlanta Georgia and it happens to be all girls its very liberal, my professors, i 100 stick out like a sore thumb. We talk about things and i get shut down a lot. It gets to the point where i dont want to speak up. Do not get to that point. Do not let them do that to you. Do not let anyone scare you into submission. If anything, let it feature fire. Let it make you study harder. Let it make you find out more things. I want you to youtube of video. William s buckley and James Baldwin at the university in 1964. Its an amazing debate in every and every single one of you should watch it. A its amazing. Yes, do not give in. God is with you. Thank you. Ill be a senior this year especially for conservative women, what programs or platforms do you recommend so that we feel heard. What platforms and programs should we join in with . Especially now with the election going on, the thing i really want to do is try to educate people who are disenfranchised, who dont get to have the education that we might get to have or know to get to. Go and talk to people in places you may not want to go and talk to people and share what you know. Share whats good and try it. We have to break that narrative, the democrats have been feeding it to the country, that plantation mentality that theyey been feeding to everyone. Everyt that this is as far as you get to go when you cant do everything. You can achieve everything you want. Theres not enough to go around because then you know what theyre doing, theyre putting a limit on our god. Does god have a limit . No. And neither do you. I go to the university of south carolina. I was just wondering your opinion as a conservative woman, with our presumptive nominee being donald trump, and hes been saying some inappropriate things about women and racist comments, how how do you feel as a woman . Do you feel those are accurate . No i dont feel like theyree accurate at all. They can never tell me anythingr specific other than, i remember the thing with megyn kelly but it sounded like it was some kind of little argument, they had some type of rift between them. What i would say is look at his children. Look at his daughter, his, his wife, his wives, look at them. They seem very happy and respected and loved and thats what i look at. That tells me a lot about a man is what his family looks like. Nd my names hannah and i go to liberty university. I was just wondering, you seem very strong in your Christian Faith and going to liberty, its its very easy to talk to people about your faith but coming into the political world and coming out of liberty and, how do you share your faith without feeling like youre stuffing it down peoples throat . I just give my own personal experience. I just say its from my own heart, what god has done for me. I thank god for myself. I never say you have to do this. I make suggestions, like i just did. I suggest you try this and if t you dont want to then you dont want to and thats your choice, but im in a beyond the the jesus train, as my uncle said. These of the last two questions, unless theres more. One, what is your issue that you care the most about, the policy issue, and two, please tell, please tell us about making that movie. Okay, the issue i care most about is defeating isis. Si feating isis because until we do that i wont feel like weve achieved the greatness of the country that we can and we h guest