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),…
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…
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…
Shenée L. Simon
Shenée L. Simon presents: mixed media visual storytelling collection in zine medium centering human rights, LGBTQ+ rights, climate change, self-care and education advocacy and activism. These pieces feature organizations which she has directly engaged and collaborated with to address these issues. Shenée’s personal beliefs stem from connecting and transcending the triad of local-national-international activism with…
Solidarity with Indigenous Women Water-Protectors: 1000 Grandmothers for Future Generations
This article describes Penny Rosenwasser‘s experience of traveling to Minnesota in May, 2021, with the group “1000 Grandmothers for Future Generations” to be in solidarity with indigenous women water-protectors to stop the Line 3 pipeline. “Listen to your Grandma, Stop Line 3!” Sweat streams down my face in the early spring heat, as I call…
Stop Line 3
Grandmothers Stand with Water Protectors and Future Generations: Minnesota Governors’ Mansion – May 26, 2021 In May 2021, members of the San Francisco Bay Area group 1000 Grandmothers for Future Generations* and their sister group of Lakota grandmothers from South Dakota traveled to Northern Minnesota to stand together with the “Water Protectors” in the Indigenous…
WE The Sojourners
The Sojourner, an organization Caroline James (pictured) started in August 2021, has created ” WE The Sojourners” which is a multi-social media project where the “isms” that keep us from creating the most equitable societies are deeply examined using research, personal stories and a lot of humor. Designed to be approachable, “WE The Sojourners” is…
16 Stories of Feminist Activism 