The weekend of March twenty third, a whole bunch of younger feminists from all around the nation gathered for the Feminist Majority Basis’s 2024 Nationwide Younger Feminist Management Convention. This annual occasion, which had been paused resulting from COVID-19, was eagerly anticipated by younger activists. Greater than 250 younger feminists and 70 audio system made their solution to Washington D.C. for a sequence of panels, abilities workshops, and discussions targeted on feminism and social justice.
FMF President Ellie Smeal introduces audio system on the Basic Meeting.
The convention kicked off with a Basic Meeting that includes unimaginable feminist leaders together with former Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney, NOW President Christian Nunes, ERA Coalition President Zakiya Thomas, VA Home Speaker Eileen Filler-Corn, Pandia Well being founder Dr. Sophia Yen, Afghan girls’s rights activist Dr. Sima Samar, authorized scholar Michele Goodwin, and Ohio Physicians for Reproductive Rights founder Dr. Lauren Beene.
NYFLC drew members from each highschool and school, with everybody contributing distinctive views to the methods for mobilizing the feminist motion. NYFLC panels lined every little thing from the significance of the ERA to the cruel actuality of gender apartheid in Afghanistan and attendees gained tangible abilities surrounding voter mobilization, digital organizing, and defending abortion clinics from extremists.
Scholar activists share their activism pledges on stage with FMF Government Director, Kathy Spillar.
Scholar leaders additionally took the stage, from DePaul College activist Maya Roman highlighting complete intercourse training post-Dobbs to the Younger Feminist Social gathering discussing the significance of youth advocacy for the ERA. Amidst the intense discussions, there have been moments of levity with a feminist comedy night time on Saturday and particular occasions like a raffle for Dr. Sophia Yen’s iconic condom tote bag.
Drs. Lauren Beene and Sophia Yen highlighted the significance of accessible contraception and contraceptives.
On Congressional Go to Day, college students engaged with their representatives on essential points of their districts. After a congressional breakfast and briefing, convention attendees have been in a position to go to the workplaces of their representatives to deliver consciousness to pertinent points of their district and demand motion. Attendees discovered the significance of successfully utilizing their voice on the Hill, in addition to methods to successfully community in a political surroundings.
Lastly, the convention wrapped up with a lunch on the Belmont-Paul Ladies’s Equality Monument, the place Park Ranger Susan Philpot highlighted the legacy of the Suffragettes and Alice Paul’s work for gender equality. Total, the convention was a a lot wanted supply of inspiration, enthusiasm, and significant connections as attendees returned to their campuses fired up and able to implement what that they had discovered.
