This panel will feature insights from Dr. Elena Bougaire (Co-founder, Senegalese Pan African collective Kimpa Vita), Prabhleen Tuteja (Executive Director, The YP foundation), Autumn Breon (Artist & Activist), and Andreza Jorge (Artivist & Co-founder, Brazilian dance collective Mulheres Ao Vento), exploring innovative and culturally grounded strategies to address reproductive rights challenges worldwide. The panel will be moderated by Ky Polanco (Media Entrepreneur & Co-founder of @FEMINIST), with opening remarks from Dilly Severin (Executive Director, Universal Access Project).
Panel conversation followed by the screening of Bone Black: Midwives vs. the South, directed by Imani Nikyah Dennison.
Join FEMINIST for a screening of Bone Black: Midwives vs. the South, directed by Imani Nikyah Dennison, followed by a panel discussion with the filmmaker, Attia Taylor (Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Womanly Magazine), and Chanel L. Porchia-Albert (Founder and CEO of Ancient Song). Moderated by FEMINIST Co-Founder Aisha Becker-Burrowes, the discussion will explore the history of Black midwives and their vital role in the reproductive justice movement.
A dance workshop with Mulheres Ao Vento.
What makes us individuals within collectives? The creative movement as a way to repair injustices and design a possible and sustainable world for women.
This workshop invites participants to explore individuality through the concept of healing justice, using body movement and creative connections with the natural element of air, inspired by the African deity Oyá, to enhance collective feminist action.
Write a love letter to your little self. With Tani Ikeda
Emmy Award winner Tani Ikeda leads the Survivor Love Letter workshop, a space that invites consistent attention to hope. This movement empowers survivors of sexual assault and their allies to publicly celebrate their lives. In the workshop, you will write a love letter to your younger self and be guided through a visualization by Tani Ikeda.
Autumn Breon (she/her) is a multidisciplinary artist that investigates the visual vocabulary of liberation through a queer Black feminist lens. Using performance, sculpture, and public installation, Breon invites audiences to examine intersectional identities and Diasporic memory.
Learn more at www.autumnbreon.com
Kimpavita is a Pan-African, feminist, and eco-responsible initiative based in Dakar, Senegal. Their goal is to build a feminist, eco-responsible movement in West Africa. They fight for women's rights and gender equality in Africa, the rehabilitation of decolonial African female figures and those from the historical and contemporary diaspora, the active participation of women in environmental preservation, and a new energy, dynamism, and the creation of synergies among feminist activists across the continent and the diaspora.
Learn more at www.kimpavitadkr.com
Inaugurated in October 2016, the Casa das Mulheres da Maré is a space created by Redes da Maré to promote the leadership of women in Brazil, thereby contributing to the improvement of their living conditions and, by extension, those of everyone around them. It represents the realization and recognition of the historical role of women in the emergence of social movements and struggles related to infrastructure in Maré since the 1980s.
Learn more at www.redesdamare.org.br
Amplifier is a nonprofit design lab that builds art and media experiments to amplify the most important movements of our times. Our experiments are built on a foundation of free and open source art, the unlimited possibilities within a human centered design process, and the potentials when analog and digital technology merge.
Learn more at amplifier.org
FEMINIST is the largest social-first digital platform and community serving the multifaceted lives of women, girls, and gender expansive people with a global audience of over 6M+. As a women-led non-profit media company, FEMINIST exists to advance gender equity through the amplification of a diverse network of intersectional feminist changemakers, artists, organizations, and creators.
Learn more at feminists.co
Womanly is a creative studio and publication founded in 2017 to provide preventive health information through art to women and non-binary folks. The project was created to ensure better resources and health outcomes for marginalized communities. In addition to a yearly print magazine, Womanly builds digital campaigns, produces films, and hosts engaging events that highlight a diverse range of topics surrounding culture and community health.
lLearn more at www.womanlymag.com
"Art, Care,& Action: Creating the Future of Reproductive Rights Around the Globe” is the UNGA initiative of our international campaign taking place across three continents: North America (NYC), Europe (Brussels), and West Africa (rural Senegal) this September.
