John, a feminist future is only achievable if it includes everyone.
Understanding the intersections of race, class, sexuality, and gender are the foundation of that future: not only in how we live these realities individually, but in how we are connected, and how we do our work together for justice across these lines of difference. Many of us are looking to engage with these histories, gain new tools, and meet this moment. Some of us for the first time, and some with renewed commitment to activism.
That’s why we’re launching the Feminist Futures live event series to help more folks engage in these tough, but much-needed, conversations to shift our culture towards justice. This series of political education webinars is in collaboration with Planned Parenthood, MomsRising, Auburn, UltraViolet, Supermajority, NARAL, and United States of Women, with a set of accompanying tools as well as invitations to action.
The first webinar of this series will be Feminism Beyond White Supremacy: Where We Have Been and Where We Need to Go featuring Barbara Smith and Amy Sonnie. This session will delve into ‘bright spot’ moments of feminist organizing in resistance to white supremacy. It will explore questions like: “What is intersectionality? What does identity politics really mean? What does it mean to be an anti-racist feminist?”
Fighting for this future has always been the center of our work, but it has never felt more urgent than right now.
The crises we’re currently experiencing — from police brutality, to COVID-19 — have awakened many of us to the systematic oppression that persists today. Many of us are starting to ask ourselves what role we want to play in this turning point of history. And we must get even more folks to engage in this conversation around the intersection of race, class, sexuality, and gender and our shared fate in this time if we want to unlock the feminist future we envision.
We need to engage with all the roadblocks and successes in the history of organizing diverse women’s movements. Over the course of this series, we will focus on lifting up some of the following themes:
Together,
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