Purple Rose Day 2019: To All Those Who Fight for a Feminist Future
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To all those who fight for a feminist future, free of trafficking, sexual violence, and exploitation:
Today on Purple Rose Day, AF3IRM dedicates our yearly re-commitment to combat the trafficking of women and children's bodies through its Purple Rose Campaign, to you. We offer up purples roses - an image central to this … Continue Reading ››
A Feminist Future is the Hope of the Land
NEW YORK—On the third anniversary of the January explosion of women’s anger toward the pervasive and intensive misogyny in the United States of America, AF3IRM NYC re-affirms its commitment to work toward a feminist future for the people and the land. This bedrock revolt against oppression and exploitation of the majority population, not only of the USA, but of the globe, … Continue Reading ››
Cyntoia Brown: Born to Oppression, Jailed by Exploitation, Freed by Resistance
This is an open letter to you, Cyntoia Brown.
We share in the general jubilation of the gubernatorial clemency which will enable you to leave prison this August. After spending 15 years behind bars. For having struck back at the man who bought you for sex when you were 16 years old. There is an implicit irony in this matching of … Continue Reading ››
AF3IRM NY on the 16 Days Altar Commemorating Missing, Murdered, and Trafficked Women
In the spirit of community activists and feminists targeted and killed, indigenous community leader Juana Ramirez Santiago in Guatemala and queer black city councilmember Marielle Franco in Brazil, AF3IRM participates in 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence, annually, with the heartbreaking consciousness that there are new names of women to remember, and so … Continue Reading ››
AF3IRM on the end of the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence 2018
In honor of community activists and feminists targeted and killed, like indigenous leader Juana Ramirez Santiago in Guatemala and queer black city councilmember Marielle Franco in Brazil, AF3IRM participates in 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence, annually, with the heartbreaking consciousness that there are new names of women to remember, … Continue Reading ››