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Kwajelyn Jackson-Community Education and Advocacy Director, Feminist Women's Health Center

The Black Herstory Month Series: Kwajelyn Jackson-Unapologetically Intersectional, Undeniably Cool

Published: February 17, 2017

For Black History Month, we honor and celebrate the fabulous black feminists and wonderful womanists who continue to build the feminist movement and bend the arc of history toward justice. Today’s Fantastic Black Feminist is Kwajelyn Jackson-Kwajelyn currently works as the Community Education and Advocacy Director at the Feminist Women’s Health Center in Atlanta, Georgia. […]

#Access4All: Intersections of Reproductive Rights, Voting, and LGBTQIA+ Rights

Published: October 6, 2016

On Sept. 10, All Access, a national coalition of organizations fighting for the right to abortion, put on their Cleveland Concert to celebrate and advocate for access to abortion across the nation. The concert was organized around the 5-3 ruling of the Supreme Court in mid-summer that killed a Texas abortion access law that had […]

Here’s Why I’m Working to Get My Campus to #VoteFeminist this November!

Published: October 5, 2016

I have been voting ever since I turned 18, no matter how small the election might seem. Every elected position, from a local Board of Education position to the President, is important. Every elected position in public office has the capacity to affect our daily lives as citizens. A tag team of voter apathy and […]

North Carolina, Come On and Rise Up for a Feminist Future!

Published: September 27, 2016

North Carolina, we’re 41 days away from the election and its time for us to rise up for a feminist future! There’s much at stake for us in this election-voting rights, access to affordable college, police violence and more! I created this factsheet for important information you need to know before you head out to […]

Vote for Pedro (And the Students Too!): Student Voter Suppression in 2016

Published: September 14, 2016

There’s the “One man, one vote” principle. Then there’s the “One student, no vote” reality. Such is the case with student voter suppression. It’s a problem I ran into when running the Vote No on 1 Campaign in my home state of Tennessee. Student activists are facing added challenges to voter registration and accessibility across […]

RECAP: Summer Feminist Institutes

Published: September 8, 2016

This past summer, we hosted a Feminist Summer Voting Institute for our campus groups and leaders to equip them with the skills, knowledge and expertise to run their own Get Out Her Vote! Campaign . National Campus Organizers planned one day institutes of informative panels and workshops. We partnered with Campus Vote Project, Ignite NC, URGE, […]

Recap: #FMFDownSouth: BBQ, Sweet Tea, Sunshine and Feminism

Published: April 13, 2016

Recently, my fabulous co organizer Mari Vangen and I took a trip down South to visit some campus groups, attend the Southeastern Women’s Studies Association Conference and the Toni Cade Bambara Scholar Activist Conference, and eat a few Cook Out trays in between it all. Here’s my recap on everything we did! University of SC-Columbia […]

We Painted our Campus Purple for #DVAM

Published: November 25, 2015

On Wednesday, October 28, Guilford College took on Domestic Violence Awareness on our campus, and we painted the campus purple. This initiative took place as part of the city-wide Domestic Violence Awareness movement, headed by the Sherri Denese Jackson Foundation for the Prevention of Domestic Violence in Greensboro NC. The amazing organizers of the foundation […]

Feminists United at UMW Are Continuing the Fight Against Rape Culture!

Published: September 11, 2015

Fellow feminist activists! Please join us, Feminists United at the University of Mary Washington, as we continue to speak out against rape culture and cyber-harassment. What: No Longer Anonymous Rally When: Friday, September 18th at 4 pm Where: University of Mary Washington on the steps of Lee Hall; 1301 College Ave, Fredericksburg, VA 22401 Last […]

Black Women Need a Raise, Too

Published: July 28, 2015

This year, we recognized Equal Pay Day on April 14 in recognition of how long into 2014 women would have to work in order to earn the same amount men earned in the previous year. However, did you know that black women on average make only 64 cents to that dollar?