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Holding Our Own Offers Movement Building Grants

Posted on June 27, 2018

Holding Our Own, Movement Building Fund from Megajoule Media on Vimeo. Holding Our Own invites applications to our new Movement Building Fund.  The Fund is an emergency grant fund that makes grants up to $1000 available on a rolling basis to fund or sponsor actions, activities, and organizing efforts community-wide to respond to the ongoing attack on […]

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Posted in Activism, Economic justice, Environment, Human Rights, Immigration, Local Feminists, Local Issues, Militarism, Political Education, Poverty, Prison Justice, Social Justice, Uncategorized Leave a comment

Ancestral Vessels of Feminist Resistance

Posted on March 10, 2017

Ancestral Vessels of Feminist Resistance:  An Immersive Healing Experience for Survivors In the series Ancestral Vessels of Feminist Resistance, Rosy Sunshine creates an immersive healing experience through video, song and color-filled Goddesses that explore the power to reclaim the physical realm and thrive after acts of gender-based violence. Exhausted by countless stories of objectification, gender […]

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Posted in Activism, Events, Gender-based Violence, Local Feminists, Uncategorized Tagged activism, capital district art, feminist events, holding our own, she breathes, troy night out, women of color Leave a comment

Holding Our Own’s Statement on UAlbany Bus Students

Posted on March 3, 2016

Holding Our Own stands with the young women of color from UAlbany who reported an assault on a bus on January 30th, and who are now being prosecuted for false reporting and assault. It is our unwavering position in all instances of gender-based violence, sexual assault, and racist violence to support those who are systematically […]

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Posted in Activism, Local Feminists, Social Justice, Uncategorized Tagged #defendblackgirlsualbany, albany ny, Black lives matter, feminism, gender-based violence, holding our own, racism, she breathes, women of color Leave a comment

SAY HER NAME, Part II: Women, Violence, and Incarceration

Posted on March 2, 2016

SAY HER NAME, Part II: Women, Violence, and Incarceration (Part I is here) “The greatest purveyor of violence in the world today is my own government.” – Martin Luther King, Jr., 1967 “I am convicted of murdering my ex-husband who abused me for years. I have done 33 years of my 25-to-life sentence. I am […]

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Posted in Gender-based Violence, Local Feminists, Prison Justice, Social Justice, Uncategorized Tagged feminism, gender-based violence, holding our own, intersectionality, mass incarceration, naomi jaffe, prison justice, racism, she breathes, victim-blaming, women Leave a comment

Why We Need a Black Lives Matter Movement

Posted on February 19, 2016

Letter to the Editor Written in Response to Charlie’s Angle: Black lives don’t need movement, published in The Saratogian, and the Troy Record, Jan 31, 2016 Saratogian Article We were shocked and offended by the Opinion piece written by Charlie Kraebel denying the need for the Black Lives Matter movement. As managing editor of The […]

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Posted in Gender-based Violence, Local Feminists, Prison Justice, Sexual Assault, Social Justice, Uncategorized Tagged Black lives matter, holding our own, kathy sheehan, kraebel, racism, saratogian, she breathes, troy record Leave a comment

Say Her Name: Women, Mass Incarceration, and Violence – Part I

Posted on January 11, 2016

Fewer than 5% of those incarcerated in the prisons of New York State are women. Therefore, our movement for justice in the criminal justice system should devote less than 5% of its time, energy, and resources to issues of incarceration and women — right? Wrong. But it often seems like that’s what we do. Here […]

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Posted in Gender-based Violence, Local Feminists, Prison Justice, Social Justice, Uncategorized Tagged albany ny, feminism, gender-based violence, naomi jaffe, nys prisoner justice, prison justice, she breathes, women of color Leave a comment

Police Surveillance & “anti-trafficking”: rally Monday March 16

Posted on March 13, 2015

Letter to the Community: On Monday, March 16, NOW NYC will be coming to Albany to rally in support of the Trafficking Victims Protection and Justice Act (TVPJA). TVPJA has widespread support from the feminist community, but has raised concerns as it grants more authority to the police and criminal justice system– and at the […]

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Posted in Prison Justice, Sexual Assault, Social Justice, Uncategorized Tagged feminism, gender-based violence, holding our own, human trafficking, sex workers project, sex workers rights, she breathes Leave a comment

Help send a Capital Region Delegation to INCITE!

Posted on March 4, 2015

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Posted in Activism, Local Feminists, Political Education, Sexual Assault, Social Justice, Uncategorized Tagged activism, angelica clarke, feminism, gender-based violence, holding our own, local feminism, mass incarceration, prison justice, sexual assault, women of color Leave a comment

Black History Month 2015

Posted on February 13, 2015

Within the month of February comes a few dates that are considered to be National holidays; whether it’s about love, dead white men, a big rodent who determine the weather to come, or most recently the viewing of a sport that only Americans understand, but there’s only one month that celebrates the memory, the achievement, […]

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Dear Queers: A love letter from Michigan

Posted on January 28, 2015

“A wise woman wishes to be no one’s enemy; a wise woman refuses to be anyone’s victim.”  Maya Angelou “The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.”  Adrienne Rich “Only by learning to live in harmony with your contradictions can you […]

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Posted in Events, Uncategorized Tagged Cis, Dear Queers, feminism, holding our own, Mary Doyle, Michigan Womyn's Music Festival, she breathes, trans Leave a comment
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