National Network Assembly

Feminist movement organizing asks us to consider both the gender relations of power internal to our movements and question the tactics and strategies that we choose through a social justice lens. Feminist activists sometimes try to build new tools to support new forms of organizing and community living. The rise of the #MeToo Movement and Women's March organizing has led to many fruitful, difficult, and sometimes hurtful discussions about what feminism means to each of us, means in practice, and means in relation to the outcomes we seek in our social change work. This session will allow us to dive more deeply into these questions and allow space for curiousity and reflection as well as consideration of some "best practice" models for trauma sensitive organizing. This presentation will combine an overview of the kinds of activism that has occurred under the banner of #MeToo and frame some goals for the future, as well as address questions about how we might approach this organizing from a trauma sensitive, intersectionally aware and feminist perspective.