Los Angeles—On Monday, November 20, 2023, AF³IRM convened feminist leaders transnationally from Honolulu, Los Angeles, Buenos Aires, and New York City to highlight why the ongoing genocide in Palestine is a pressing transnational feminist issue. The virtual event brought together a global audience.

AF³IRM, a transnational feminist, anti-imperialist organization, denounces and condemns the continued escalation of U.S. support for the “Israel” entity in its war against Palestinians. As women, as descendants of families who have survived Israel and U.S.-backed dictatorships and interventions, we stand with the women and the people of Palestine. 

On March 8th, the 23rd year into this century, we once again celebrate Womankind’s long history of struggle for equity and equality in the human world. For those of us living and working and fighting in the territory of the United States, that means going beyond the annals of the settler feminist movement.

Knowing that public shaming, denunciation, and pillory have been standard tools of the patriarchal ruling class against women who defy dogmas and orthodoxies, AF³IRM issues this statement with great reluctance. But in this time of disinformation, deep fakes, and historical revisionism, we deem it necessary to stand firmly on the facts and nothing but.

To the two bona fide members, and the forty-six member applicants, inactive members, and former members who have decided to seek their own path to women’s liberation, we wish you well. To those who benefited the most from AF³IRM, we hope you continue to use that organizational investment well. AF³IRM remains committed to the fundamental … Continue reading AF³IRM National: Addressing Disinformation about the Alleged “Split” and Reaffirming the Full Humanity of a Woman →

Resolution will bring District into compliance with state Human Trafficking Prevention Education and Training Act marking a victory for children in San Diego Unified schools On Wednesday, January 11, 2023, the San Diego Unified School Board unanimously (5-0) adopted a resolution to institute anti-trafficking curricula geared towards training all district staff and students on identifying … Continue reading AF3IRM San Diego passes anti-trafficking resolution through a unanimous vote by San Diego Unified School District →

Contact: Connie Huynh, Chairperson, [email protected] NATIONAL:   AF3IRM salutes the women in particular and all who continue to protest in Iran, despite intense state repression and violence by the Basij Forces. AF3IRM believes that no religious interpretation should be a cause for a woman’s death, more so of people’s death, and that the struggle to … Continue reading NEITHER MORALITY NOR THE STRUGGLE FOR SOVEREIGNTY IS REDUCIBLE TO HOW ONE WEARS A HIJAB – AF3IRM →

Los Angeles- AF3IRM is proud to announce its newly elected 2023-2025 National Executive Council (NEC). These are the women who have been chosen to lead AF3IRM in our resistance against femicide, global fascism, and imperialism.   National Chairperson – Connie Huynh is a mother, survivor, daughter of refugees, researcher, and organizer, and has been a member … Continue reading AF3IRM ANNOUNCES ITS NEWLY ELECTED NATIONAL EXECUTIVE COUNCIL →

The women of AF3IRM Los Angeles stand in solidarity with the Tongva people and with indigenous peoples across the globe rising up against the encroachment of settler colonialism and capitalism onto our homelands. As transnational women of color, we have histories rooted in occupation, colonization, and the invasion of our ancestral lands. We have experienced … Continue reading HAPPY INDIGENOUS PEOPLE’S DAY →

Following German activist and women’s rights advocate Clara Zetkin’s call to establish a special women’s day at the 1910 Conference of Working Women held in Copenhagen, International Women’s Day was celebrated across Europe the following year in March.  On March 8, 1917, thousands of Russian women marched on the streets of Petrograd and demanded the … Continue reading Women Never Back Down →

Contact: AF3IRM Seattle, [email protected] Today on February 14th, AF3IRM observes Purple Rose Day in honor of those exploited by sex trafficking, sexual and gender-based violence, and fetishization. This is a day to reaffirm the struggle to end gender-based violence and the exploitation of women, children, and gender-oppressed people. The purple rose is a flower artificially … Continue reading DEAR SISTERS →

Contact: AF3IRM Los Angeles || [email protected] AF3IRM Los Angeles (AF3IRM LA) condemns the city’s decision to host the Super Bowl LVI at the SoFi Stadium in Inglewood on Sunday, February 13, 2022, as the planned increase in police presence will result in increased sweeps and raids, displacement of our unhoused neighbors, and criminalization of Los … Continue reading AF3IRM LOS ANGELES CONDEMNS LA CITY’S DECISION TO HOST THE SUPER BOWL LVI →

A WIN for AF3IRM Portland! AF3IRM Portland has been working with a coalition of survivor-led organizations since late 2021 to DISMANTLE Initiative Petition 42 (IP 42), AKA the Oregon ballot measure which was deceptively titled the “Sex Worker Rights Act”, when it pushed to further protect buyers, pimps, and brothels, and increase demand and sex … Continue reading Putting a STOP to legalizing sexploitation in Oregon →

AF3IRM and abolition allies demand equal time after Sunday’s ‘This Is Life’ segment denied airtime to the sex industry’s most vulnerable women. While we acknowledge CNN and Lisa Ling’s efforts in her This Is Life segment titled “Sex Work, Past, Present and Future” (aired on Sunday, October 24), to take on the controversial and complex … Continue reading AF3IRM calls out CNN segment for normalization of prostitution, commodification of women’s bodies →

Deconstructing the racist base of this phrase, its historical inaccuracy, and why being against the sex trade is a basic pillar of anti-imperialism.

Connie Huynh, National Chairperson [email protected] Espinosa, National Programme Coordinator [email protected] Since 2002, October 5th has been observed yearly as International Day of No Prostitution. Started in Australia and the United States, it is now observed across the globe not only as a day of remembrance for women who have lost their lives in the sex … Continue reading AF3IRM Declares October 5 as International Day of No Sexploitation →

Contact: AF3IRM Boston || [email protected] Fifteen thousand years before the Pilgrims arrived at Plymouth Rock, these lands were watched over by the Wampanoag, who called themselves Pokanoket. These people followed matrilineal inheritance, with women holding and inheriting property regardless of marital status. They were also matrilocal, with married couples going to live with the woman’s … Continue reading On October 5, the International Day of No Sexploitation, AF3IRM Boston is taking a stand against the sex trade by proclaiming LAND BACK, BODIES BACK →

Contact: AF3IRM Atlanta || [email protected] Today, we take a moment to acknowledge that true liberation will not be achieved under a government that continues the exploitation and commodification of women. Public health approaches in understanding sexploitation are necessary to understand how upstream factors, such as domestic violence, poverty, and immigration status, relegate women to unsafe … Continue reading AF3IRM Atlanta October 5 Banner Drop Statement →

Contact: AF3IRM Portland || [email protected] AF3IRM Portland is bringing awareness to #DayOfNoSexploitation with a banner drop! As a new chapter in AF3IRM, we are proud to be part of this anti-imperialist, transnational feminist organization, and be part of the change.  Sex trafficking rates have especially increased during COVID-19. In the media, we see different reports … Continue reading AF3IRM Portland #DayOfNoSexploitation Banner Drop Statement →

Contact: AF3IRM Seattle || [email protected] We of AF3IRM Seattle continue to fight against the Genocide of Womankind and even further to call for a Day of No Sexploitation.  Sexploitation, or the exploitation of women and girls for sex, is one of the most commonly unseen but overrepresented ways women are existing to survive on occupied … Continue reading Centering Children and Women victims of the Seattle Green River Killer: Calling for Day of No Sexploitation →

NATIONAL: In partnership with Monsoon Asians & Pacific Islanders in Solidarity, AF3IRM National announces the start of the 8th Annual Summer School of Youth Activism in Iowa. This is the second year we will be conducting the school remotely due to the pandemic. The theme of the school is Regeneration: Cultivating Intergenerational Learning and Leadership … Continue reading The 8th Annual Summer School of Youth Activism in Iowa, Regeneration: Cultivating Intergenerational Learning and Leadership, remote workshops now in session →

AF3IRM National is pleased to announce the fulfillment of our National Finance and Fundraising Director position for the remainder of the 2020-2023 term. We are welcoming back Daniella Navarrete from the San Francisco/Bay Area chapter to the National Executive Council! Daniella joined AF3IRM in 2014 and has previously served as the AF3IRM SF Bay Area … Continue reading MEET AF3IRM’S NEW NATIONAL FINANCE DIRECTOR →

Our hearts are breaking and are filled with anger for the workers and families impacted by the shooting in San Jose, CA and for the larger, broader labor movement including our union siblings in the Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) Local 265 and Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 521. Nine people were killed Wednesday morning, … Continue reading Solidarity Forever: AF3IRM Stands with our Union Brothers Massacred in San Jose →

Contact: AF3IRM San Diego [email protected] In March of 2021, the San Diego Organizing Committee honored women’s struggle against patriarchy and imperialism by spotlighting local women of color whose labor supports our community.  The paid and unpaid labor performed by women is undervalued, and the past year’s pandemic and callous response by authority figures have added even … Continue reading Women’s Work: Visibility through a Global Pandemic →

Contact: AF3IRM Las Vegas [email protected] On March 8, 2021, our national organizing body called for a return to the origins of International Working Women’s Day in support of our sisters in the global south, who have tirelessly fought not just in the past year, but for most of their lives, inheriting critical struggles from their … Continue reading HONORING OUR GRANDMOTHER’S LABOR →

March 8 as International Women’s Day has deep roots in the socialist movement, with Clara Zetkin calling for a special women’s day at the 1910 Conference of Working Women held in Copenhagen. Though initially no specific day was proposed, International Working Women’s Day, as it was then known, was commemorated by people across Europe and … Continue reading Women Work, Women Fight →

Contact: Connie HuynhNational Chairperson, [email protected] It is with a heavy heart that AF3IRM condemns the recent murders of mostly Asian women at several Georgia massage establishments. Eight people were killed on Tuesday night, six of them were Asian women, four of those women were Korean nationals. While Georgia officials have not confirmed that these murders … Continue reading AF3IRM Stands In Solidarity With Our Slain Sisters In Georgia →

Contact: AF3IRM Seattle, [email protected] International Women’s Day, though presently pinkwashed, was originally created as part of the organizing strategy of Socialist parties in the United States and Europe. Previously called International Working Women’s Day (IWWD) it signified a day of striking, political organizing, and dismantling capitalism with the express goal of prioritizing the reduction and … Continue reading International Working Women’s Day: Origins and a Way Forward →

Every year, AF3IRM chapters observe Purple Rose Day in order to honor those impacted by sex trafficking and sexual exploitation and to renew our commitment to the work of ending gender-based violence.  After some setbacks due to weather, we made it out to Aurora on February 17, and placed our memorial at the cross sections … Continue reading Dear Sisters: A LOVE LETTER →

Contact: Connie HuynhNational Chairperson, [email protected] On February 14th of every year–what is widely recognized as Valentine’s Day in this place we call the U.S.–AF3IRM observes Purple Rose Day. While the rest of society partakes in (or rejects) the commodification of romance, every year on this day AF3IRM recommits to ending the commodification of women and … Continue reading For our Sisters and Grandmothers: Purple Roses Up! →

Sisters,  Today we are breathing a momentary sigh of relief.  A sigh that acknowledges the official transition of power from the 45th President of the United States to the 46th. Our families and communities are still reeling from this mismanaged pandemic and mourning our losses, so we may feel as if we’re far too numb … Continue reading You survived. Next, we thrive. →

Today, December 10, marks the end of the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence. We honor Las Mariposas—Patria, Minerva, María Teresa, and Dedé—the brave Mirabal sisters who fought a regime that ultimately cost them their lives. We also launched the Feminist Covid Diaries on Day 1 passing the mic to our members of primarily … Continue reading On The 16th Day, We Rage →

“In order to rise from its own ashes, a Phoenix first must burn.” – Octavia Butler Contact: Connie HuynhNational Chairperson, [email protected] CanlasNational Education Director, [email protected] The fascist in power wishes to remain in power. That is why he spent 2020 mismanaging the pandemic and playing with our lives. That is why his party hurried to … Continue reading Louder Than Our Vote, Women of Color Will Be Heard →

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 … Continue reading Amy Coney Barrett Key to Conquering Women, Strategy of Colonialism →

Contact: Connie HuynhAF3IRM 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 INCARCERATION IS “HUMAN COLLECTION,” CENTRAL TO MODERN GENOCIDE →

Contact: Connie HuynhAF3IRM 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, while … Continue reading WOMEN HAVE CARRIED THE WORLD UNDER THE PANDEMIC →

Contact: Connie HuynhAF3IRM National Chairperson, [email protected] EspinosaAF3IRM 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 – and … Continue reading Speaking up for Ourselves and Listening to Survivors: AF3IRM Names Digital Violence As a Form of Violence Against Women →

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 … Continue reading AF3IRM Schools of Youth Activism and School of Women’s Activism Go Virtual →

The application for our first joint School of Youth Activism (SOYA) with @af3irmhawaii @af3irmsf @af3irm_seattle.pnw is now LIVE and OPEN until July 10th! Application link: https://bit.ly/soya2020 SOYA is a FREE program for girls of color age 13-17 interested in direct action organizing skills, social justice and feminism rooted in @af3irm ‘s transnational feminist praxis! APPLY TODAY! … Continue reading AF3IRM SCHOOL OF YOUTH ACTIVISM →

AF3IRM condemns the police triple murder of Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arberry, and George Floyd.  We are aware that these three deaths are but the latest in the continuing lynch-mob and slavers mentality on which policing seems to rest for the majority of the US states.  We condemn this, we despise it, we commit to working … Continue reading AFFIRMING BLACK LIVES MATTER →

Contact: AF3IRM San Francisco Bay Area [email protected] ⟺⟺⟺ Transnational women are under attack.  For centuries, transnational women and girls have survived as the insidious and oppressive forces of patriarchy, colonialism, and capitalism have infected every corner of our world. Time and time again, our bodies are labeled as diseased, inhuman, and criminal by the patriarchal … Continue reading In the Time of Coronavirus, Building a Feminist World for the Next 7 Generations →

The month of March sets out to amplify women’s voices, be it to celebrate organized resistance or rage against systems that have historically been anti-women. Though women’s lives are perpetually under attack, the first quarter of 2020 has so far been taken over by global events disruptive to our daily life: Trump coming close to … Continue reading BUILDING POWER, AMPLIFYING VOICES: INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY 2020 →

Purple roses in various shades of defiance flood social media on February 14, marking the 21st year of the Purple Rose Campaign, the bedrock of AF3IRM’s organizing history. The Purple Rose has symbolized our work in ensuring liberation– the kind that’s uncompromising, unanchored from patriarchal demands that lead to exploitation– for all womankind. The Purple … Continue reading THE PURPLE ROSE, RADIANT & DEFIANT: A DECOLONIZED CAMPAIGN HONORING & UPLIFTING SURVIVORS →

Contact: AF3IRM San Francisco/Bay Area Chapter [email protected] We are AF3IRM San Francisco Bay Area, the local chapter of a transnational feminist organization. The past few months, like many residents of the Bay Area and across the nation, we have been following and supporting the righteous and humane fight that three Oakland single mothers led by … Continue reading SAFE AND AFFORDABLE HOUSING IS A FEMINIST ISSUE →

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: AF3IRM LOS ANGELES [email protected] Los Angeles, CA – Transnational feminist activists from AF3IRM Los Angeles applaud the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors for the passage of the Massage Establishment Ordinance on January 28, 2020, and urge the Board of Supervisors to remove a provision from the ordinance that would allow … Continue reading SURVIVORS NOT CRIMINALS: OVERHAUL OF MASSAGE ESTABLISHMENT POLICIES ARE A MONUMENTAL TURNING POINT IN ANTI-SEX TRAFFICKING EFFORTS, ACCORDING TO FEMINIST ACTIVISTS →

Los Angeles- AF3IRM is proud to announce its newly elected 2020-2023 National Executive Council (NEC) and the creation of its first international chapter in Puerto Rico.  Comprised of leaders in AF3IRM from throughout the country, these are the women who have been elected to lead AF3IRM in the face of global fascism and US imperialism, … Continue reading AF3IRM ANNOUNCES NEWLY ELECTED NATIONAL OFFICERS AND FIRST INTERNATIONAL CHAPTER →

Contact: Connie HuynhAF3IRM National Chairperson, [email protected] We have arrived inside the woods where no one will see what  we have come here to do.   From The Mayan Song of Dzitbalche by Am Bam   CALIFORNIA, USA:   AF3IRM accepted the Semillas invitation to join the Segundo Encuentro Internacional de Mujeres Que Luchan and joined, on … Continue reading AF3IRM SUPPORTS ZAPATISTA CALL TO COMBAT VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN & ACKNOWLEDGES THE GLOBAL RESONANCE OF RULE #31 →

In the past two weeks commemorating the 16 days of women’s activism, we have witnessed a captivating brand of resistance: the women of Chile in blindfolds moving to a poetic rhythm that has now become a global feminist anthem. The protest song “A Rapist In Your Path” has now been replicated throughout the rest of … Continue reading The Power of Women’s Resistance: 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-based Violence →

Dear 2020 Presidential Candidates: We respectfully write to you as an organization of ordinary women frustrated with the incursions of capitalism into our neighborhoods and intimate relationships. We have seen the pressure mounting on you to take a stance on prostitution — one of the most devastating issues for Native and immigrant women. We appreciate … Continue reading Decolonize Your “Sex Work” Stance: An open letter to 2020 candidates →

AF3IRM Purple Rose Campaign and AF3IRM International Department Contact: Connie Huynh [email protected] 323-813-4272 We of AF3IRM, a multi-ethnic organization of primarily women of color engaged in transnational feminism, view with extreme alarm the on-going disinformation regarding the sex trade.  One of the most grievous of such disinformation is that pimps, traffickers, recruiters, brothel keepers, and … Continue reading Ending Entitlement to Female and Feminized Bodies is Central to Women’s Liberation →

Thousands of Native Hawaiians (Kānaka ʻŌiwi) have answered the call from Hawai‘i Island to protect their ancestor and Hawai‘i’s most sacred mountain, Mauna Kea. Linking arms, our sisters are on the frontlines.

New York — From Puerto Rico to Hawaii, women are placing their bodies in the line of fire to resist colonization and protect the sacredness of the land. More than 120 years after the United States stole these lands, state-sanctioned violence continues. In San Juan 100,000 people rise up against an imperial puppet governor and … Continue reading SUMMER SCHOOL OF WOMEN’S ACTIVISM DAY 3:​ Militarism and the Assault on Land and Women →

New York — It’s no wonder that, “Let’s get this bread,” has become a rallying call for sleep-deprived, hungry, under-paid, and overworked working women. Transnational women of color are “married to the hustle,” shackled to exploitation.  AF3IRM coined the term refeudalization in 2008 to explain the socio-economic and political conditions transnational women of color are facing: … Continue reading SUMMER SCHOOL OF WOMEN’S ACTIVISM DAY 2:​ Refeudalization and Decolonizing Transnational Women of Color’s ‘Work’ →

New York — Since birth, infants are wrapped in pink or blue and pushed into a binary gender system that dictates our lives into adulthood. It traps us into one of two boxes we check on forms asking for our identity. It romanticizes the nuclear family with a husband and wife, determines “who wears the … Continue reading SUMMER SCHOOL OF WOMEN’S ACTIVISM DAY 1:​ History of Women’s Struggle & Decolonizing Gender →

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Skylar Perez-Grogan AF3IRM Los Angeles Youth Coordinator [email protected] AF3IRM Los Angeles is proud to announce School of Youth Activism (SOYA) 2018 participant Briana Morales was accepted to Georgetown University’s Class of 2023! Briana, a soon-to-be graduate of Ramón C. Cortines School of Visual and Performing Arts’ class of 2019, wrote about … Continue reading School of Youth Activism Participant Future Shines Bright →

This International Working Women’s Day and Women’s Month, we in AF3IRM salute all those who dream and work to manifest new visions of liberation beyond the shackles of this current reality. Women worldwide continue to rise up and resist this patriarchal, capitalist system. We witnessed teachers across the country, from Arizona to Los Angeles and … Continue reading AF3IRM on International Working Women’s Day/ International Women’s Day 2019 →

Join AF3IRM Hawai’i on International Women’s Day for a screening of the documentary, Call Her Ganda, and a special panel discussion with Attorney Virginia Lacsa Suarez, Kim Coco Iwamoto, Yvonne Mahelona & Jen Jenkins! Call Her Ganda Screening and Panel Discussion Friday, March 8 5pm to 9pm Art Auditorium @ University of Hawai’i at Mānoa The 2016 … Continue reading ‘Call Her Ganda’ Screening and Panel Discussion on “Militarization, Sexual Violence and Sovereignty in the Pacific” on March 8th with AF3IRM Hawai’i →

Join AF3IRM NYC for an open mic and mixer celebrating International Women’s Day. Feminist activism heals the wounds of patriarchy, racism, capitalism, and imperialism. On this night, we’ll honor women’s resistance through art. We’re also raising funds to support activist, artist, and former NYC Co-Coordinator Leani Auxiliio. Leani is fiercely facing down cancer. We’ll hold … Continue reading Feminism Heals: Open Mic and Mixer on March 12 with AF3IRM NYC →

LOS ANGELES—Transnational and indigenous women will come together for “Whose Space: Decolonizing Feminism, Beyond Talk, Into Practice, to Liberation” at AF3IRM’s Land and Liberation Forum on Saturday, March 9th. This plenary panel, which begins at 12 noon, will feature activist Bamby Salcedo of the TransLatin@ Coalition, CSULA Professor Kimberly Robertson, and Connie Huynh, who is … Continue reading Land and Liberation Plenary Panel on Decolonizing Feminism to feature Bamby Salcedo, Kimberly Robertson, Connie Huynh →

LOS ANGELES—With the March 9th forum’s focus on Land and Liberation, AF3IRM Los Angeles is excited to welcome Yvonne Mahelona, indigenous Hawaiian (Kanaka) and a core organizer with AF3IRM Hawai’i, as the event’s keynote speaker. Attendees will hear from Yvonne and learn that “she is a young leader with a ferocious dedication to freedom for … Continue reading Native Hawaiian Organizer Yvonne Mahelona to Keynote Land and Liberation Forum in Los Angeles →

LOS ANGELES—After four consecutive years of organizing and leading Los Angeles’s International Women’s Day March and Rally, the local chapter of the feminist organization AF3IRM will honor this global day of celebration and resistance in a deeper, more intimate way. This year, AF3IRM LA will bring people together for “Land and Liberation: Decolonizing Feminist Thought … Continue reading AF3IRM LOS ANGELES TO HOST LAND AND LIBERATION FORUM IN HONOR OF INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY →

Dear AF3IRM NYC community, We are thrilled to welcome our chapter’s Co-Coordinators for 2019. After holding elections in January, Claudia Miriam Lara will join Joan Ariete to lead our movement forward to a feminist future. 
Claudia is a first generation Xicanx from Hawai’i. Raised for the majority of her life by a single undocumented mother, … Continue reading The feminists at the helm of our struggle✊🏽✊🏽 →

NEW YORK: Last year on February 14th, a gunman with a history of misogyny and domestic violence killed 17 children and educators in Parkland, Florida. This year, one day after the one-year memorial of this tragedy, Donald Trump twisted the narrative of trafficking, drugs, and gangs and declared a fake national state of emergency to … Continue reading The Trafficking of Women and Children is the National Emergency →

NATIONAL – 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 Purple Rose Day 2019: To All Those Who Fight for a Feminist Future →

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 … Continue reading A Feminist Future is the Hope of the Land →

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 … Continue reading Cyntoia Brown: Born to Oppression, Jailed by Exploitation, Freed by Resistance →

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 many more names … Continue reading AF3IRM NY on the 16 Days Altar Commemorating Missing, Murdered, and Trafficked Women →

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, and so many more … Continue reading AF3IRM on the end of the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence 2018 →

Every year AF3IRM participates in the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence. In these days of #MeToo, the attacks on women’s rights and their bodies, and sheer misogyny worldwide, it is even more important to bring attention to gender-based violence. Join our AF3IRM chapters around the United States for events and activities during this … Continue reading Join AF3IRM for the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence! →

NATIONAL–The AF3IRM National Leadership Institute was recently held in the West Coast in preparation for the 2019 organizational elections. The Institute is held annually for AF3IRM officers, coordinators, and core members, as an intensive training and opportunity to expand  ideological, political and organizational preparedness, ability and capacity. This year’s Institute held added significance in the … Continue reading AF3IRM announces new collective leadership body, upcoming activities in preparation for 30th anniversary year →

Que Vivan Las Mariposas! An Exhibition of Revolutionary Resistance to State Violence Against Women 1300 E. 1st Street, Los Angeles, CA 90033 *Exhibition to run from Thursday November 29th to Sunday December 2nd* Part of AF3IRM’s activities for the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence Exhibition Events Thursday, November 29th @ 6:30PM to 9:00PM: … Continue reading Que Vivan Las Mariposas! An Exhibition of Revolutionary Resistance to State Violence Against Women →

As a national women of color organization, AF3IRM recognizes that education is a feminized occupation and justice for teachers is justice for women. This is a feminist issue. VALUE WOMEN’S WORK!!!   #AF3IRM #StrikeReady #UTLA #UTLAStrong . . . . . . . . . #teacher #strong #StopStarvingPublicSchool #📚 #📖 #📝 #🎓#class #StopTheBillionairePrivatizers #charteraccountability #respecttheprofession … Continue reading AF3IRM Los Angeles STANDS with United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA) →

Looking for a political home in these turbulent times? Come meet and learn about AF3IRM. We are a transnational feminist org of women of color dedicated to ending militarism, trafficking, and fighting for im/migrant women’s rights. Email [email protected] for more info 💜 #AF3IRMSeattle via Instagram https://ift.tt/2xydyd0

Members from across the country converged in LA this past weekend to study, assess, rectify, plan, and strengthen. We are entering our 29th year of struggle invigorated, inspired, more determined, even more militant 🔥Misogynist, fascist, racist pigs – you have officially been warned. #AF3IRM #AntiImperialist #TransnationalFeminist #ONWARD via Instagram https://ift.tt/2MG3iF5

Joan Ariete, AF3IRM NYC leader, mama, and brilliant woman is depicted by her chapter coordinator & artist Leani. 💜 #AF3IRM #AF3IRMNYC via Instagram https://ift.tt/2NDoX5n

AF3IRM on Day 2 of their Basic Women’s Orientation in New Mexico! Thanks to the women of New Mexico for hosting and exchanging knowledge. We had such a fruitful dialogue, modeling what sisterhood looks like in practice. Stay tuned! #MilitantSisterhood #af3irm #af3irmnewmexico #Feminism #TransnationalFeminism #NewMexico via Instagram https://ift.tt/2CBfRS6

NEW YORK CITY— In the wake of rising numbers of increasing criminality in the world today, exacerbated by an undercurrent of competition over resources, women’s vulnerability has intensified.  Of no help in ameliorating the continuing femicide are misogynist pronouncements from the world’s predominantly male leadership which has turned a consistently blind eye to the epidemic of … Continue reading Philippine President Downgrades Rape from Crime to Compliment →

Today we honor Bartolina Sisa, an Aymara woman who led an indigenous uprising against Spanish colonialism in Bolivia. She was captured and faced a cruel death by the Spanish on September 5th 1782. To honor her resilience, September 5th is commemorated as the International Day of Indigenous Women since 1983. As transnational women of color, … Continue reading International Day of Indigenous Women: Today we honor Bartolina Sisa →

Today we celebrate 29 years of our organization. Thank you to all the sisters who have helped shaped who we are and to all of our sisters currently engaged in the fight for a feminist future! #af3irm #forwardtoafeministfuture #getorganized #transnationalfeminism #woc #feminism via Instagram https://ift.tt/2PGjIPN

For the month of September, AF3IRM LA members will be reading Kindred, by Octavia E. Butler. Throughout the month, we’ll be sharing our thoughts and reactions on our social media. As transnational feminists, reading is an essential tool to combat white supremacy and dismantle patriarchy. It is also vital to our theory building as an … Continue reading AF3IRM LA Book Club Announcement! 📚🤓💜📢 →

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 11, 2018 Sylvia Cabrera, AF3IRM LA Co-Coordinator [email protected], (213) 537-7260 Jollene Levid, AF3IRM International Department (323) 456-4748 LOS ANGELES– On Thursday, May 10th, AF3IRM Los Angeles (AF3IRM LA) unveiled its campaign to end the criminalization of sex trafficking survivors in Los Angeles County massage parlors as the next focus in its … Continue reading AF3IRM Los Angeles Announces Campaign to End Criminalization of Sex Trafficking Survivors in Massage Parlors →

NATIONAL—Today we the women of AF3IRM join all those around the world marking International Workers Day! We celebrate the militant, revolutionary history and spirit of May Day and continue to fight in solidarity with workers in the United States and worldwide. In various cities, including Los Angeles, Long Beach, and New York, we took to … Continue reading AF3IRM on May Day 2018 →

29-years-old. Beautiful. Engaged to be married. A happy future laid out for her… So why did Jennifer Laude end up with her head in a toilet bowl, dead? In a motel room. At a rest & recreation center for the American military in the Philippines. Her killer, a young man from Massachusetts, felt he was … Continue reading Lessons From the Jennifer Laude Murder: On Women, LGBTQ and Human Rights →

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 16, 2018 Sylvia Cabrera, AF3IRM Los Angeles Co-Coordinator 213-537-7260 [email protected] AF3IRM Los Angeles stands with and joins the national uprising of educators fighting for fair compensation, safe schools, and quality public education for students and their families. We send our solidarity to the educators of West Virginia, Kentucky, Oklahoma, Arizona, and … Continue reading The Women’s Revolt Continues: Teachers’ Strikes Across the Nation →

Los Angeles–On the day of #MarchforOurLives, we in AF3IRM wanted to also uplift the voices of the youth with whom we work. We know that feminist future that we seek can be found in the youth who inspire us with their brilliance and their leadership. This speech was delivered by Briana Morales, one of the … Continue reading AF3IRM LA’s SOYA Youth Briana: “We are choosing to fight” →

NEW YORK — As our youth and students take to the streets today to compel Washington DC to enact stricter gun controls, AF3IRM NYC sends its support and gratitude to the hundreds of thousands of young people who have decided to take control of the state of violence in this nation.  By doing so, they … Continue reading AF3IRM NYC Stands in Solidarity with March for Our Lives; Underscores the Link with Misogyny, Domestic Violence and Mass Violence →

HONOLULU—Workplaces in Hawai‘i—from Waikiki hotels to State Capitol halls— are hostile to women. Hawaiʻi under United States’ control has a history of subordinating women under men through law and culture. As a result, men as a class and as individuals hold more power, and they have abused this power. Men’s systemic abuse of power continues … Continue reading #MeToo: From Where We Stand – AF3IRM Hawai’i →

For Immediate Release March 8, 2018 Contact: Ivy Quicho, National Chairperson, [email protected] Mykie Ozoa, Hawai’i Chapter, [email protected] New York Chapter, [email protected] Barbra Ramos, National Communications Director, [email protected] NATIONAL — AF3IRM raises up the banner of Forward to a Feminist Future for International Working Women’s Day/International Women’s Day (IWD) on March 8 and throughout March for … Continue reading International Working Women’s Day 2018: There is No Way But Forward – to a Feminist Future! →

LOS ANGELES — On Saturday, March 3rd, the women of AF3IRM Los Angeles will bring people together in the streets of downtown LA in honor of International Women’s Day/International Working Women’s Day. Now in its fourth consecutive year, the march continues to be led by women-identified feminists of color and to make visible the needs … Continue reading March for the Feminist Future in honor of International Women’s Day in Downtown Los Angeles on March 3rd! →

As we mark  the one year anniversary of 45’s inauguration and the historic Women’s March, we the women in AF3IRM cannot state it enough: forward to a feminist future! This past year, we have witnessed the growing activation of women around the country, moving from the Women’s March to #MeToo and #TimesUp. In 2017, AF3IRM … Continue reading Forward to a Feminist Future | Statement on the 1-year Anniversary of 45’s Inauguration and the Women’s March →

As part of AF3IRM’s 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Based Violence, we are releasing video and text of a version of the speech delivered at the #MeToo Survivors’ March in Hollywood on Sunday, November 12, 2017 by AF3IRM National Chair Ivy Quicho.  Greetings! How are you all doing? My name is Ivy Quicho and … Continue reading Now Is The Time: #MeToo Speech by National Chair Ivy Quicho →

Saturday, Nov 25  International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women (anniversary of the murder of the Mirabal sisters) First day of the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence   Sunday, Nov 26  San Diego | AF3IRM SD November Organizing Meeting 8:30pm to 10:30pm Lestat’s Coffee House 3343 Adams Ave, San Diego, California 92116 … Continue reading AF3IRM’s 2017 Calendar for 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence →

Media Contact:  [email protected] Tel:  (917) 3970989 New York:   An astonishing array of women luminaries will be at the helm of AF3IRM’s CenterShift Conference on October 21st – a vivid image of the diversity of color, cultures, experience and perspective in the women’s struggle for liberation. Two principal main features will anchor the day’s discourse.  After … Continue reading Women of Color to Helm AF3IRM’s CenterShift II Conference: Full Schedule Revealed →

Media Contact:    Email:  [email protected] Telephone:   (917) 397-0989 NEW YORK—The bold leaders of AF3IRM – including three of its past and current national chairpersons — will continue to challenge the ideals and boundaries of feminism in the United States at this year’s national conference. The push by leadership has always been to theory build, to … Continue reading AF3IRM Leadership to push for new directions for feminism at October 21st CenterShift II Conference in New York City →

Media Contact:  [email protected] Phone:  (917) 397-0989  NEW YORK– “Our girls are trafficked, sexually exploited or found dead in alleyways, while police violence thrives and we continue to bear the trauma of poverty, “ she said bluntly in an interview on the end of the March for Black Women on Washington DC.  This is Farah Tanis, … Continue reading Farah Tanis of Black Women’s Blueprint Joins AF3IRM’s October 21st CenterShift II Conference →

Media Contact: [email protected] Tel: (917) 397-0989 NEW YORK—To this South Bronx native whose parents are first generation immigrants from the Dominican Republic, “life is a political project.” Claudia De La Cruz, creator of Da Urban Butterflies, a center meant to develop the character of leadership among young women, has been hard at work for the … Continue reading TeleSur Co-Host and Producer Claudia De La Cruz Joins AF3IRM October 21st CenterShiftII Conference →

Media Contact:  [email protected] Tel:  (917) 397-0989 NEW YORK– A most brilliant star will bring her light to AF3IRM’s CenterShift Conference II:  Roots & Routes on the 21st of October:  Muriel Miguel of the Kuna and  Rappahannouk American Indian Nation and a Guggenheim Awardee, who founded the longest-running American Indian theater group and wrote, for its very … Continue reading Spiderwoman Theatre Founder Joins AF3IRM CenterShift II Panel “Constellations of History” →

Media contact: email: [email protected] Tel: 917-397-0989 NEW YORK—Practicing journalism in a country ranked second in the number of media people assassinated and which still holds the record for the most media persons killed in a single event is a challenge the likes of which few experience. However, Raissa Robles, who reports both on her own … Continue reading Philippine journalist Raissa Robles joins Oct 21st Centershift Conference →