Useful Organizations Recommended by the Activists in Young Global Changemakers for a Feminist Future
African Youth and Adolescent Network on Population and Development
African Women Leadership Institute
The Climate Reality Project
Equimundo and MenEngage
Indivisible
International Green School Campaign
The Southern Poverty Law Center and their Learning Justice Team has a program called “Mix it up” At Lunch (mixitup.org) to get kids to cross social boundaries at lunch.
Based on a middle-school novel by James Howe, The Misfits, a campaign through the Gay Lesbian Straight Education Network is called nonamecallingweek.org.
Girls Learn International is organized by the Feminist Majority Foundation.
PEPFAR
MenCare
NGO World Human Relief
Sunrise Movement
Youth Champion incubation by Rise Up and supported by the Packard Foundation.
Non-Fiction Books The Activists Mentioned
Adrienne Maree Brown. Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds
Kimberlé Crenshaw. On Intersectionality: Essential Writings
The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
Allan Johnson’s The Gender Knot: Unraveling our Patriarchal Legacy
Visiting Feelings by Lauren Rubenstein.
Erin Meyer. The Culture Map
book and TED talk by Chimamanda Ngozi, We Should All Be Feminists.
Nikki van der Gaag TED talks
Japanese writer Chizuko Ueno titled Misogyny
60+ Feminist Transnational Organizations
https://cwgl.rutgers.edu/campaigns/150-resources/governmentngo-resources/223-womens-organizations
*AllianceForFeministMovements: https://allianceforfeministmovements.org
*African Women’s Development fund: http://www.awdforg
*Association for Women’s Rights in Development https://www.awid.org/resources/what-has-feminism-got-do-it
*Black Feminist Future
*Black Womxn Caucus: feminist group based in South Africa https://youngfeministfund.org/grantees/black-womxn-caucus/
*Brigada Migrante Feminista, Chile https://youngfeministfund.org/grantees/brigada-migrante-feminista/
*#BuiltByGirls: Encourages girls to use technology to identify and develop solutions that empower the 62 million girls that don’t have access to a traditional education across the globe.
#Center for Reproductive Rights: a legal center https://reproductiverights.org/about-us/
*Coalición Feministas de Cubana: a collective of Cuban Feminists https://youngfeministfund.org/grantees/coalicion-feminista-cubana/
*Coalition Against Trafficking in Women
*Code Pink
*Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN)
*Equal Measures 2030 is a collaboration to achieve the UN’ Sustainable Development Goals. https://www.equalmeasures2030.org/who-we-are/
*Equality Now: “use the law to change the world” https://reproductiverights.org/about-us/
*Feminist Civil Society and Young Feminist Activist Education Coalition
*FemSolution in Ukraine is a feminist, horizontal, anti-homophobic, anti-xenophobic student association.
*Flickforsk! Nordic Network for Girlhood studies
*Free Chinese Feminists founded by Lu Pin. www.facebook.com/feministchina/
*Frida: Fund for Young Feminists. www.youngfeminstfund.org
*Future Coalition, a network of over 25 youth-led organizations
*Gender at Work https://genderatwork.org/analytical-framework/
*Gender Cool for trans kids https://gendercool.org/champions/
*Generation Equality Forum convened by UN Women 2022
*Girl Boss https://girlboss.com
*Girl Up: actively works to empower adolescent girls around the world. https://girlup.org/
*Girls Opportunity Alliance (includes interviews with girls) https://www.obama.org/girlsopportunityalliance/stories/
*Girls Globe feminist media platform founded in Sweden https://www.girlsglobe.org/about/ Founder Julia Wilander offers “Hey Changmaker!” podcast
*Girls Learn International
*Girls Studies listserv https://mailman.sydney.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/girls_studies
*Global Fund for Women. www.globalfundforwomen.org
*Global Grassroots conscious social change for women http://www.globalgrassroots.org
*Global Voices: international media stories https://globalvoices.org
*Kvinna till Kvinna: supports women’s rights in over 20 conflict-ridden countries https://kvinnatillkvinna.org
*Let Girls Learn: founded by Michele Obama
*MADRE
*Malala Fund for girls’ education
*MenEngage Alliance: gender equality https://menengage.org
*MeToo www.metoomvmt.org
*Miss Deaf Pride Zimbabwe is an organization led by deaf Young Feminists
*Plan International Young Leaders Directory https://thewowfoundation.com/young-leaders-directory-2021
*One Billion Rising: mass action to end violence against women https://www.onebillionrising.org/about/campaign/
*Pro Mujer: empowering Latin American women financially https://promujer.org/b2b/en/
*Rise Up global movement for gender equity
*Save Generations Organization: Rwanda for girls’ and women’s rights https://sgorwanda.rw/about-us/
*Shining Hope for Communities (SHOFCO) in Kenya provides a community-based Kibera School for Girls. Journalist Nicholas Kristof also recommends model programs BRAC in Bangladesh and Fonkoze in Haiti.
*Sisterhood is Global
*SheSays youth-led against sexual violence
*She Should Run: provides community, resources, and growth opportunities for aspiring political leaders. media@sheshouldrun.org
*SuperGirls Society
*Tech Girls Are Superheroes
*1000BlackGirlBookscampaign
*Transform Education (hosted by the UN)
*UltraViolet
*Womankind Worldwide: supports women’s rights movements in developing countries https://www.womankind.org.uk
*Women Living Under Muslim Law
*Network Women in Development Europe (WEDO)
*UN-PAC youth group for democracy reform
*UN Women. www.unwomen.org
*UNICEF’s UN Girls Education Initiative https://www.ungei.org/feminist-education-coalition organized the Feminist Education Coalition
*UN Women’s Generation Equality Youth Task Force
*Women’s Peace Network
*WriteGirl: matches girls with women writers who mentor them in creative writing.
*World Pulse: international forum for women https://www.worldpulse.orgs
*Young Feminist Hub Beijing+25 https://www.youngfeminist.eu/beijing25-gef/young-feminist-hub/
*Young Feminist Europe https://www.wecf.org/young-feminists-want-system-change/
*Young Feminist Wire created in 2010 by AWID
*Young Women’s Leadership Network
*The Youth Coalition for Sexual and Reproductive Rights https://youthcoalition.org
Articles about Young Feminist Leaders
https://www.vogue.in/culture-and-living/content/12-gender-equality-activists-to-know-in-2021
Shirley Steinberg, ed. Activists Under 30: Global Youth, Social Justice, and Good Work. Brill Sense, 2018.
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