In our FEMINIST zine, we sought to better understand what it means to be a feminist today. We asked our community - you all - what feminism means to you. You responded with paintings, poems, essays, photos, and more, powerfully detailing your own definitions of feminism.

We then asked our existing network of authors, creators, artists, educators and activists – some of today's leading voices across a range of social justice issues.

Whether you are ready or not, as a feminist, as a person committed to women’s liberation, your arms are linked with these individuals. Learn about them. See them as people. Take this zine as an opportunity to expand your understanding of feminism and feel the strength that comes from exploration of this movement.

Investigative journalist and photographer, Lynzy Billing, reports on the reality of Women and girls in Afghanistan since the Taliban took over in 2021. “Across the country, for girls, dreams have been stifled. It has been 437 days since the Taliban banned education for the vast majority of secondary school girls across the country.”

Loretta J Ross and Dázon Dixon Diallo are reproductive justice and human rights activists and co-founders of SisterSong. Diallo is also the Founder and President of Sister Love. Ross and Diallo sat down with FEMINIST co-founder Aisha Becker-Burrowes to reflect on what feminism means to them. 

We caught up with founder Adwoa Aboah and Executive Director Daniella Raveh of Gurls Talk about the intersection of feminism and mental health.

Elle Moxley, co-founder and the Executive Director of The Marsha P. Johnson Institute, and FEMINIST co-founder Aisha Becker-Burrowes discuss the legacy of Marsha P. Johnson, the importance of celebrating Black Trans joy, and how intersectional feminism requires us to center and protect Black Trans women.

Heather Booth, 76, is a Jewish American organizer and political strategist who has worked in civil rights, feminist and other movements. FEMINIST co-founder Ky Polanco and Booth caught up to discuss why love must be at the center of organizing and what our generation can learn from her activism.

Often disregarded as frivolous or an excuse for gratuitous nudity, Free The Nipple is an essential movement at the center of the fight for bodily autonomy and artistic freedom online.

The Movement for Black Lives (M4BL) is organizing to amass significant political power to influence national and local agendas in the direction of our shared Vision for Black Lives policy platform—a comprehensive framework for a society that values Black lives, repairs past harms, and invests in Black communities.

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I’m a Black feminist. A womanist. A hip hop feminist. A crunk feminist. An intersectional feminist. A Caribbean feminist. A diasporic feminist. A disabled feminist. A justice feminist. A feminist. 

“Your friendly, neighborhood OB/GYN” is how you may know Dr. Heather Irobunda MD (@drheatheribundamd on Instagram). Dr. Heather Irobunda found her voice in the movement of reproductive justice in the US when she co-founded, alongside a group of doctors turned activists, Obstetricians for Reproductive Justice.

As a society, we often talk about racism, but rarely ever do we talk about how it affects the health of our people. I call racism “the multifaceted abuser” because it has emotional, physical, mental and spiritual effects on our community.

We at FEMINIST know that a huge part of the fight for true equity is figuring out what it is about our bodies that makes us feel the most joyful. We asked several people of trans experience how they find gender euphoria, and how they work towards it in their own lives.

Dossé-Via Trenou and Ethel Tawe in Conversation:
Heavily embedded in all aspects of African cosmologies are celestial bodies and spiritual devices that work cyclically with nature to conjure collective healing and wisdom. For me, astrological and cosmic rememory is the mining and recalling of these origins that continue to suffer erasure.

It seems that Nature must be a woman, because she is facing the same inequality that women have faced for centuries: abused, ignored, unheard and exploited by the men in charge.

The climate crisis is a feminist issue: the role of climate and gender, and the importance of intersectionality and empowering women within the environmental space. 

At times, being a feminist and an abolitionist can feel like refereeing warring identities. A strain exists between the desire to have a hammer brought down on perpetrators of gender-based violence (GBV) and the knowledge that the state, as it historically and currently functions, will never provide effective, healing solutions to violence against women. 

Dare to dream a dream of liberation broad enough for us all. Dare to dream of justice, and all her children, rooted in shared humanity and grounded in the radical joy here and to come.

Independent singer-songwriter and artist, Leo Kalyan unapologetically breaks barriers and sparks poignant conversations through music. As an artist, Leo has been praised by LGBTQ+ icons like Elton John and RuPaul. FEMINIST Head of Education, Blair Imani, had the honor of sitting down with Leo at his home in London, UK to discuss femininity, culture, and of course, music.