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🌟How do we maintain our spark while fighting for change? Wellbeing In Feminist Activism explores sustainable ways to manage our energy, ensuring we're empowered to lead. 🔗Read here:👉 wipc.org/wp-content/upl… to learn more about keeping our light bright! Happy #WellnessThursday

How can we lead together without fear? 🤝 🤚 Many of us know firsthand that when we stick our heads above the parapet and take a stand for a more just world, even in small ways, the backlash and personal cost can be high. Online intimidation and workplace harassment are just what the lucky among us often face for living feminist values. 👊 This *new resource* from Urgent Action Fund for Feminist Activism offers movements, funders, and policymakers recommendations and resources to better support feminist activists in building sustainable networks of collective protection, healing, and care. 💥 As feminist movements build greater collective power to mobilize solutions for a just world, they are targeted with increased—and increasingly intense—forms of backlash. 💥 And as the nature of activism has expanded in the context of today’s crises, so have the range and forms of the backlash, or reprisals. From online harassment and digital surveillance to the denial of healthcare and smear campaigns that threaten activists’ reputation and credibility, feminist activists, organisations and movements are facing expanded challenges. 💥 This resource centres the stories of five activists and provides recommendations for individuals and institutions looking to build a collective care response. Access the full resource here 👉 https://lnkd.in/gE_qPJ-z #feminist #leadership

In our latest episode of The Professionals Pulse featuring the insightful Dr Aleya Sharaf Hashimi. In this compelling conversation on Global Human Rights Issues, Dr. Aleya emphasized the profound impact each of us can make in our own unique ways. Key Takeaway: Humanity starts from our own region—we don’t need to look elsewhere to contribute to human rights issues. Every small action within our own comfort zones can drive significant change. Dr. Aleya highlighted that whether it's advocating for equality, supporting local initiatives, or simply being more aware of the issues around us, each effort counts. Get inspired by Dr. Aleya's profound insights and learn practical ways you can make a difference. Watch the entire episode on LinkedIn or YouTube. Let’s empower ourselves and our communities to create a better, more equitable world. 🔗 Watch Now: https://lnkd.in/dtdvcp6m 🔗 Watch Now: https://lnkd.in/dXmBCkU4 Let’s work together to create a better world, starting from where we are. #HumanRights #GlobalIssues #TheProfessionalsPulse #MakingADifference #CommunityImpact #SocialJustice #LocalAction #Empowerment

Mabrouk, felicidades, parabens, and congratulations, Mama Cash, for your monumental support of the milestones and the marathon that global feminist movements have won for the past 40 years from 1983 through 2023! In the hands of women, girls, and trans and intersex activists, 140 million euros has had profound impact in 160 countries–and the momentum, need, and potential for continued impact are clear.  It was truly a life’s work to co-author this Impact Study, joined by the brilliance and tenacity of my colleagues/compañeras Bipasha Ray and Perrin Elkind. How many millions or billions of lives have changed as a result of feminist movements: 1983 vs 2023: - 1 country had domestic violence legislation; now 162 do - 35 countries allowed elective abortion; now 77 do - 15 countries had already had a female head of state; now 87 countries have had (at least) one - No country permitted marriage equality in 1983; now 36 do - 183 countries criminalised consensual same-sex sexual conduct; now 63 do - Countless economic rights were denied to women; now labor, property, and other economic rights for hundreds of millions have been enacted These are just a glimpse. In the report, we share the enormity of changes that were fought for and hard-won by intersectional feminist movements around the world–often 10-20 years in the making. And we can see the many fronts where the movements continue persisting, resisting, and insisting on every next step toward transformational equality and true equity, on environmental justice, and bodily integrity, on being able to love who you love, to be safe in your body, and to say what you want to say where you wish to say it. Take a look at the vibrant website at https://lnkd.in/gjCCnfsk, which captures key highlights from the data and the analysis over the 40 years. Please read and share the report: https://lnkd.in/gmE247jV. In it, we profile the patterns of impact in ten issue areas in the countries where Mama Cash provided support and accompaniment, and provide examples that illustrate what this looked like on the ground and over sustained time periods: LBQ Rights, Reproductive Justice, Countering Gender-Based Violence, Sex Workers’ Rights, Racial Justice, Economic Justice, Disability Justice, Environmental Justice, Relationships with Money, and Strengthening Feminist Funding Architectures. Most importantly, we captured the ‘Mama Cash effect’ - their practices as a feminist funder in every region, across every decade, that helped make it possible for movements to achieve so much. Thanks to the Mama Cash team that commissioned and midwived this effort: Happy Mwende K., Saranel Benjamin, Jeske Ruigrok, and many more, and to Stephanie P., Yukiko Yamagata, and Zoe Brogden who immersed in the data organizing. The utmost thanks belong to the dozens of feminist activists and leaders who spoke with us or wrote the reflections that are at the heart of it all.

What can we do to support feminist activists facing backlash? Funders can provide access to flexible funding that allows activists to mobilize quickly and effectively. 📍 Here’s how you can help build collective power for lasting, transformative change: https://lnkd.in/erPCudrA

LEAD – Leadership for Equality and Development is committed to the belief that awareness is the key to creating change. By spreading knowledge and fostering understanding, we can transform mindsets and communities. That’s why we harness the power of digital platforms to reach people, spreading positive messages and challenging negativity. Through social media awareness campaigns, we aim to inspire hope, understanding, and action. As part of this mission, LEAD is proud to announce its participation in the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence campaign. Over the course of 16 days, we will share 16 powerful awareness messages to shine a light on this critical issue and encourage meaningful conversations. Let’s come together to support this campaign, amplify awareness, and work towards a future free from violence. Stay tuned to our social media platforms for impactful messages that can inspire change! #16DaysOfActivism #LEADForChange #EndGBV #SpreadAwareness #PositiveChange #LeadershipForEquality #EmpowerCommunities

One of PiPER Research Day’s themes this year is Inclusion, with a special focus on enhancing confidence in leading #inclusive research. Attendees will have the opportunity to explore ways to rethink and redesign #research structures, processes, and policies to foster greater inclusivity. Inclusion in a research setting refers to the intentional efforts to ensure that diverse people perspectives and experiences are represented and valued throughout the research process. This involves creating an environment where individuals from all backgrounds, including those from social, political, cultural and economically diverse groups are welcome, respected and supported throughout the research process. Important principles to promote in research: #Equity #Diversity #Inclusion #Indigeneity #Accessibility #AntiRacism. Benefits of integrating equity, diversity, inclusion, accessibility, and anti-racism principles in research are: ◾ Enhance research quality and relevance ◾ Promote social justice, anti-racism, and anti-oppression ◾ Foster innovation and creativity ◾ Address disparities and ensure fair representation ◾ Improve health and social outcomes Stay tuned to find out more about our influential keynote speaker. Learn more about the PiPER Research Day at: https://lnkd.in/eGBtGeVn

Around the world, we’ll continue to feel the ripple effects of the US election results. We stand in solidarity with all marginalised people who are facing the prospect of the reversal of their rights and the unwinding of hard-won progress. But the global backsliding of human rights is bigger than any single election. Feminist movements have been sounding the alarm about the rise of anti-rights movements for some time, and the threat is even clearer today. This trend has a global knock-on effect – emboldening autocratic leaders and weakening organisations and institutions that uphold rights globally. Anti-rights movements are well-organised and well-funded. Our pro-rights movements for people and planet must be stronger. Here are some resources you might find helpful for organising, campaigning and strengthening movements: ✊The Commons Social Change Library has a wealth of resources for change-makers https://loom.ly/kH96D34 ✊Haymarket Books is currently giving away 10 free e-books on building power for change https://loom.ly/33Q3tiQ ✊ IWDA's Plan Your Power toolkit provides insight into effective women's rights advocacy https://loom.ly/L6fxi4I ✊Our online course - Master Advocacy Fundamentals at Your Own Pace - takes users through every stage of developing an advocacy strategy or campaign https://loom.ly/RgWUiy8 In the darkness, we hold on to joyful resistance.

I’m a bit late for International Women’s Day…. but earlier this week I had my own Women’s Day in London, exploring the Tate Britain exhibition “Women In Revolt: Art, Activism and the Women’s movement in the UK 1970–1990”. As a student in the early 80s I was a vocal feminist, still am really, I have just learnt to tone it down when needed! It was surreal seeing things in the exhibition that I had once owned (Spare Rib Magazines) and lived through. The exhibition contained so many parallels with today’s climate activism. After all climate justice and women’s rights are intertwined. I was struck especially by a photograph of the police towering over the Greenham Common peace protestors, adjacent to the sadly still relevant quote from Virginia Wolf: “We can best help you prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods”. If we are to successfully tackle the climate crisis we all need to innovate and find new words, new methods and a new approach. The time for business as usual, incremental climate solutions has passed. What new thing are you introducing in your personal life or your business to tackle the climate crisis? I hope you enjoy this trip down the feminist memory lane. #climatecrisis #climateactionnow #climateleadsership #courageousleadership #women’srights #climatejustice

Struggling to integrate DEI principles into your activism or community work? Our 4-week course gives you the tools to lead inclusively in every area of your life. #CQForActivism #WomenInLeadership #InclusiveCommunities SIGN UP NOW: https://lnkd.in/gAc8YWvt