On the day that is reserved for honoring Indigenous people whose stolen land many of us occupy as settlers, the United States Senate has begun its hearings for Trump’s nominee for Supreme Court justice, Amy Coney Barrett. There is no greater miscalculation than to pick this date out of haste, as our nation is reminded of the widespread … Continue Reading ››
INCARCERATION IS “HUMAN COLLECTION,” CENTRAL TO MODERN GENOCIDE
Contact:
Connie Huynh
AF3IRM National Chairperson, [email protected]
There is a war on people of the global south occurring inside the bodies of women in migrant detention centers. The mass hysterectomies being performed on the women at LaSalle Corrections facilities in Georgia are acts of mutilation, torture, and the tools of genocide.
On September 14, a complaint … Continue Reading ››
WOMEN HAVE CARRIED THE WORLD UNDER THE PANDEMIC
Contact:
Connie Huynh
AF3IRM National Chairperson, [email protected]
This Labor Day, AF3IRM honors and recognizes the labor of women across the globe who have carried the world to this point in a global crisis.
From the Filipino health care workers who left their families and homelands to work overseas, providing care to people in other nations, … Continue Reading ››
Speaking up for Ourselves and Listening to Survivors: AF3IRM Names Digital Violence As a Form of Violence Against Women
Contact:
Connie Huynh
AF3IRM National Chairperson, [email protected]
Valeria Espinosa
AF3IRM National Programme Coordinator, [email protected]
“Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen. To shame it. To mock it. With our art, our music, our literature, our stubbornness, our joy, our brilliance, our sheer relentlessness – … Continue Reading ››
AF3IRM Schools of Youth Activism and School of Women’s Activism Go Virtual
AF3IRM NATIONAL: This year, AF3IRM Summer Schools across the country have gone virtual. The schools will look at the gendered character of the struggle to contain the pandemic: from the front lines of health care to the nurture lines of the home to the support lines of groceries and supermarkets. For young people, the uncertainty of whether schools … Continue Reading ››