After a long weekend of workshops, skills building, education, and activism, the FMF campus team closed out a fantastic NYFLC that got every young feminist present fired up and ready to fight for the feminist cause – beginning at their college campuses and encouraging them to take their passion all the way to the state [...]
We have posted a selection of photos from the amazing Regional Caucuses on the last day of the National Young Feminist Leadership Conference. If you have more photos that you think we should include, please send them to your regional organizer.
It’s important for young feminists to be involved in the fight for women’s rights both at home and abroad. This general assembly was moderated by the Global Programs Director of Feminist Majority Foundation, Anushay Hossain. Hossain discussed the importance of ratifying CEDAW in the United States, to take a stand for women and girls around [...]
Eleanor Smeal, President of the Feminist Majority Foundation moderated the town hall with Tina Tchen. Tchen is the Executive Director of White House Council on Women and Girls and the Chief of Staff for First Lady Michelle Obama. “This is the hardest working White House I have ever seen.” -Eleanor Smeal Tina Tchen first met [...]
To discuss how young feminists can bring their activism from their own college campuses all the way to their state capitols, this general assembly featured some inspiring feminist speakers. The GA began with a stellar introduction from the Campus Team (duVergne Gaines, Francesca Witcher, Miranda Petersen, Adriana Cortes-Luna, Brooke Hofhenke, Kari Ross). Kathy Spillar, executive [...]
Worst case scenario: what do you do if you need to report a sexual assault on your campus? Do you know who to contact? Which department is responsible? Do you need to fill out a form? I was pleasantly surprised when a quick Google search of my campus website turned up a pretty direct link [...]
An Homage to Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack by Peggy McIntosh [PDF] If you’re asking yourself what in the world “cisgender” (often shortened to “cis”) means, then don’t worry. If you’re not familiar with the queer community, it can sound like an intimidating word, but it’s not! In the way that transgender can describe how someone’s gender identity [...]
I am a Virginian through and through – I was born here, raised here, educated here, and I have worked here for all of my twenty two years. I love this commonwealth (not state; that’s right, I know VA’s quirks) with all of my heart, but I can’t trust it when it comes to reproductive [...]
The media hype and attention in the weeks leading up to the 2013 Super bowl in New Orleans has ignored a growing problem surrounding the largest sporting event in American culture — sex trafficking. Super Bowls have unfortunately become the bedrock to this inhumane underground market, trafficking in thousands of men, women, and children from [...]
Whether you’re reading this from your laptop, smartphone, or tablet, on a Wi-Fi network or 4G network, we all use the internet to connect to the world around us. While the bulk of feminist history has been made offline, in the last decade the juncture between the internet and feminism has become unavoidable. This has [...]
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