Attacks on marginalized communities have been rampant in the past several years. With the upcoming consequential election, the future remains unknown. Join Sophia Armen, a nationally-recognized feminist community organizer, on what a future looks like rooted in dignity, love, and liberation. Process the election results together and learn about what frontline feminist movements are calling for. Our responsibility is to each other, and through the power of love and critical transformation, we can meet this moment to demand so much more for our communities. Join in a conversation on the state of feminism, the promise and peril of this moment, and where we go from here.
Bio:
Sophia Armen is a Middle Eastern-American feminist community organizer and writer. She is the co-founder and serves as the Co-Director of The Feminist Front, a national gender, queer, and racial justice organization of 15-35 year olds building rooted feminist futures. The Feminist Front is fighting for women’s equality by building intersectional education, trainings, campaigns and mobilizations of young people, especially young women and girls of color, and working on key issues such as the Equal Rights Amendment, worker’s rights and equal pay, reproductive healthcare and gender-affirming care access, and survivor-centered initiatives through deep grassroots organizing. She mobilized young people nationwide last election cycle in The Feminist Front’s Electoral Justice Now People’s Summer to contact over 500,000 voters of color to help them register to vote and fought for reproductive justice against harmful state bans. Armen was the first Middle Eastern-American woman elected student body president in the history of the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her work has appeared in Vice News, Ms. Magazine, The Middle East Eye, NPR, The Feminist Realities Magazine, among others, and in a cover story for The Los Angeles Times.
