United against all gender based oppression!
We started off this month, on Sunday November 3rd, with a beautiful workshop planned, organized, and led by our Brooklyn women and girl members.
In the lead up to the workshop, the Brooklyn women and girl members made audio recordings sharing their experiences with gender-based oppression and violence. They used those audio clips, including blaring them publicly, as part of their outreach for three consecutive weekends leading up to the event. We spoke to over a hundred women about the need for women and girls to organize, and invited them to the public workshop.
Then, on Sunday, our members led a public workshop in Avenue C Plaza with women and girls in the Kensington neighborhood about how we can start to end the gender-based oppression that exists in our community. The conversations delved into how gender-based violence does not always look like spousal violence against their partner but also the ways in which women and girls are restricted in their movements, what they wear, what they do, or the other ways they are “policed” by others, included being prevented these very same spaces that they were now taking up and taking over.
We are building an exciting women organizing program and would love your support! If you are a Desi/Indo-Caribbean working-class woman or girl living in Kensington, please reach out to us to get involved!
