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Identities and Advocacy: Highlighting Intersectional Women's Organizations

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Identities and Advocacy: Highlighting Intersectional Women's Organizations
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Amazing things happen when women come together to support one another.

While Women’s History may be relegated to one month a year, there are many organizations in the United States that strive to promote the health, safety, education, and careers of women all year long. While this list is far from exhausted, I feel it highlights a variety of organizations that emphasize different elements of our intersectional identities as women.

National Coalition of 100 Black Women

Their Mission: "To advocate on behalf of black women and girls to promote leadership development and gender equity in the areas of health, education and economic empowerment."

National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum

Their mission: "We are building a movement to advance social justice and human rights for AAPI women and girls in the United States."

Trans Women of Color Collective

Their mission: "To uplift the narratives, lived experiences and leadership of trans and gender non-conforming people of color, our families and comrades as we build towards collective liberation for all oppressed people."

INCITE!

Their mission: "INCITE! is a national, activist organization of radical feminists of color. We mobilize to end all forms of violence against women, gender non-conforming, and trans people of color and our communities. By supporting grassroots organizing, we nurture the health and well-being of communities of color. Through our efforts, we move closer toward global justice, liberation, and peace."

National Organization for Women

Their mission: "As the grassroots arm of the women’s movement, the National Organization for Women is dedicated to its multi-issue and multi-strategy approach to women’s rights. NOW is the largest organization of feminist activists in the United States, with hundreds of thousands of contributing members and more than 500 local and campus affiliates in all 50 states and the District of Columbia."

The International Network of Women with Disabilities

Their mission: "To enable women with disabilities to share our knowledge and experience, enhance our capacity to speak up for our rights, empower ourselves to bring about positive change and inclusion in our communities and to promote our involvement in relevant politics at all levels, towards creating a more just and fair world that acknowledges disability and gender, justice, and human rights. INWWD is comprised of about 200 women from international, regional, national or local organizations, groups or networks of women with disabilities, as well as individual women with disabilities and their allies."

The American Association of University Women

Their mission: "The American Association of University Women (AAUW) is the nation’s leading voice promoting equity and education for women and girls. Since their founding in 1881, AAUW members have examined and taken positions on the fundamental issues of the day — educational, social, economic, and political."

If you know of any other organizations you think should be highlighted, please add to the comments below! It is important to take care of ourselves and recognize the many differences and similarities in our personal experiences of womanhood.

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