Women, Affronted
I wrote this poem in response to learning, as I got older, more and more about the abusive relationships in which many of the women on my mother’s side of my family were engaged at various periods in their lives. It comes from a feeling of hopelessness about ever finding a ‘good man’ that I’ve felt for a lot of my adolescence and young adulthood, and that comes from my knowledge of the horrible experiences many of the women in my family have had. I hope you enjoy the methods I chose in attempting to tell these stories.
#MeToo Anthropology and The Long Journey Home
This piece is about anthropology, academia, and activism in the #MeToo era; from my own experience of sexual assault in the field to the founding of The MeToo Anthro Collective. I talk here about how we came to be and what we’re doing now as we continue to tackle the ever-present scourge of racial and gendered injustice in higher education.
SET THEM FREE: Sisters Without Borders Project
Set Them Free is a civil initiative founded to stand up for the rights of the arbitrarily imprisoned mothers, babies and women victims of Turkey Purge. It raises awareness of the violation of women’s rights in prisons such as denial of right to health services and right to access legal services.
Everyday Activism
Hasnaa Mokhtar put together these 16 segmented pieces because more often than not public forms of activism are deemed a priority thus celebrated while small acts of everyday feminist activism remain invisible thus irrelevant.
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IWillMCW: Bringing Gender Equity to the Medical College of Wisconsin, One Pledge at a Time
Launched in 2019, IWill MCW was the first pledge-based gender equity campaign created by the Medical College of Wisconsin’s Center for the Advancement of Women in Science and Medicine (AWSM). It allowed staff, faculty, and learners to make unique individual pledges focused on creating a nurturing environment for all genders. IWill 2.0 began in August…
Mental Health and Activism
By Gabrielle Ferrell Public activism is prioritized over personal activism. The mental health of the BIPOC community, specifically of wmn and non-binary folks alike, tends to be neglected due to the urgency of frontline social justice, and as a result, not seen as an integral part of the revolution. In addition, the pandemic has caused…
Hear Me, Hear Us!
Shampa Iftakhar Hear me! Hear us!I have been killed so perfectly- Death was my guest when I welcomed youI never assumed – you are a poison- your words are your investmentsSunlight bathes me – as it did many years backI am hearing the buzzNews headline-“A college student found dead”I was guilty of being so passionate-…
(Re)present
Maxine Platzer Lynn Women’s Center at UVA University of Virginia Maxine Platzer Lynn Women’s Center presents: (Re)presentAs a feminist call to action, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of full co-education at University of Virginia and in response to the national racial reckonings of 2020 and of the 2017 Unite the Right Rally (#Charlottesville),…
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Connect & Breathe
By Jennifer Katz Part 1: Volunteering I volunteer for an after-abortion support line. Connect & Breathe offers a nonjudgmental space for people experiencing abortion-related distress. Most callers are women who recently had abortions, perhaps within the past week or even just yesterday. With us, callers can describe their thoughts and feelings openly, without judgment. We…
From Classroom to Courtroom: A New Path to Immigration Law
Peggy Rivage-Seul, professor emerita of women’s studies, Berea College Six months after I retired from my position as chair of women’s and gender studies at Berea College, I opened the door to a new life of professional activism: immigration law. For my first winter of academic freedom, I proposed to my life-long partner that we…
Outliers and Outlaws: A Public History of Lesbian Community
From Judith Raiskin, Courtney Hermann, and Kerribeth Elliott In March 2020 we were about to start filming a documentary about lesbian feminist activism in Eugene, OR in the 1960s-1990s. When the pandemic made it impossible to film the lesbian elders, we dedicated our work to curating and digitizing the interviews of The Eugene Lesbian Oral History Project that Judith had filmed…
People’s Energy Movement
In response to the governor’s energy summit, the People’s Energy Movement had been organizing a counter convening in response to the Governor’s Energy Summit held here in Salt Lake City, UT since 2017. In 2020 in the midst of a pandemic and the burnout folks were experiencing in organizing for racial justice, we didn’t have…
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In the still of the night
Puleng Segalo is the Chief Albert Luthuli Research Chair at the University of South Africa. Her areas of specialization include Community Psychology, Social Psychology and Gender and Feminism in Psychology. Her research work and publications cover a wide range of areas including gendered experiences of women in various aspects of life, Historical trauma, and Critical…
I teach my children to trust their beating hearts
By Sara C. Motta In writing. Originally read out at a #BLM rally in July 2020 in the lands of Awabakal and Worimi in so-called south east Australia. I teach my children to trust their beating heartsI teach my children to look for the other black kid in the classI teach my children to know…
Third Space Feminism
Trishia is a feminist organizer and a foresight strategist from Bangladesh. In 2011, she founded Meye Network, a feminist grassroots organizing platform, as a response to gender discrimination in the workplace, while she was working as an engineer in Dhaka. The platform evolved organically through the solidarity, leadership, and entrepreneurship of Bangla-speaking women, and expanded…
What We Don’t Talk About at Work
From Elizabeth Pellerito: This prose piece describes the workshop series a group of labor activists and I have developed and begun offering regularly. In the workshops, we explore trauma in the labor movement: how it stems from oppressive systems including white supremacy, settler colonialism, the patriarchy, and most of all capitalism; how it sits in…
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16 Stories of Feminist Activism 