BCRW has long been interested in supporting social justice movements that reach

beyond the limits of traditional feminist activism. In past semesters, we have hosted

programs that have taken up a variety of intersectional projects that join feminist

activism and analysis with other progressive movements, including reproductive justice,

workplace rights across the economic spectrum, and the links between sexual and

economic justice, to name a few. This panel on New Feminist Activism will explore

how young feminist activists are engaging with struggles for justice in areas such as

education, the environment, and race and class. By using new forms of media and

building alliances, these activists (and many others like them) are creating a strand of

feminist activism that is fundamentally concerned with social justice and social change.

Panelists include: Mia Herndon, Executive Director of the Third Wave Foundation,

a feminist, activist foundation that works nationally to support young women and

transgender youth; Debra Cole, a member of Domestic Workers United, an

organization working for fair labor standards for nannies, housekeepers, and other

domestic workers in New York; and Rinku Sen, President and Executive Director of the

Applied Research Center, a racial justice think tank and home for media and activism,

publisher of Color Lines magazine, and the author of Stir It Up: Lessons in Community

Organizing and The Accidental American: Immigration and Citizenship in the Age of

Globalization.