In her final Amplify, both of the year 2022 and on HerStry, Joycelyn sits down with the original Amplify columnist Ashlee Zillmer. They discuss Amplify, amazing womxn, and more!
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Welcome to our second-to-last piece of Amplify of the year and our final Amplify InBetween for 2022! We hope you enjoyed learning about the fantastic womxn we shared this year. To end the year, we’re doing something a little different. By now, everyone’s a little burnt out for the year, so instead of an entire article, we decided to switch it up. This piece will give you some resources and recommendations, a short article on a womxn you should know, and what’s to come from Amplify in the future.
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Welcome to the final edition of the Amplify series: Shapers of a Movement. In this edition of Shapers of a Movement, we’ll meet #MovementShaper Vi Subversa, a radical feminist punk musician from the United Kingdom.
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Welcome to the September edition of the Amplify series: Shapers of a Movement. In the second to last edition of Shapers of a Movement, we’ll meet #MovementShaper Dorothy Stopford Price, an Irish doctor who introduced the BCG vaccination to Ireland.
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Welcome to the August edition of the Amplify series: Shapers of a Movement. In this edition, we decided to do something different. We decided to talk to someone actively organizing to improve their community. What did we talk about? Well, the impact women of color and nonbinary folx have in organizing movements, and how they create spaces, fight to enact better policies for the community at large, and continue to fight and manage in an area that is often dominated by cisgender, white, and male people.
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Women have been organizing, striking, and protesting since the dawn of time. Join us as we explore the many brave women who have started a movement in order to fight for change.
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This summer we're taking on a journey, sharing the amazing stories of women who shaped a movement. From organizing to liberation: The ones who started it all and continue to innovate and bring awareness to issues.
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In this Amplify InBetween, we will share about three Asian American and Pacific Islander amplifiers who made, and continue to make, an impact on the lives of others, and how their influence has positively impacted the way we view activism, art, and storytelling.
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April is about new beginnings. Our theme for this month, Breasts, can be a touchy subject. Our Amplify has chosen to talk about the untold struggles and triumphs of Activist, Feminist, and poet Pat Parker, a woman who made it her life mission to enhance the lives of those in her community, embrace her identity, and foster self-love.
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Maya Angelou once said, “The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.”
It’s true; home is supposed to be a safe space where you feel that love and warmth. Home is a place to go when you lose your way. But what happens when your home becomes a battlefield? Or what if the people of your homeland are the ones committing the atrocities? Will you choose to fight, to protect your home or expose an injustice, even at the cost of your life and livelihood?
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Sex workers have been at the forefront of abolitionist movements for centuries. Many have spent their lives fighting to be seen, heard, and taken seriously. As a collective, sex workers continue to fight against the church, politicians, police, and a society that doesn’t value them or their work. It’s no surprise that the event that marked the beginning of the modern sex workers movement happened while occupying a church—the Holy Cross Church, to be exact.
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HerStry’s monthly theme for January, “The Rest of The Story,” connects with our Amplify of the Month. Learn about the extraordinary life of Anna Julia Cooper, a famous scholar in social science circles, also known as “the Mother of Black Feminism.” Check out how she spent her life advocating for equal education for Black women, and how she changed the course of history and HerStry.
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Welcome to Amplify InBetween, where you give you samples with a bit of herstory and a little bit of fun. In our final Amplify piece for 2021, we will look at the first Amplifiers in their class. These ladies were the first to fly, teach, create, disrupt, bring new perspectives and innovation, and inspire generations.
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Do you believe your words have the power to move and heal a community?
In our last WarriHERS piece, we’ll meet a warrior who used her words to address the horrors of war and bondage, and who advocated for equality. This WarriHer was a crusader for the people; she spoke up against institutional racism and helped communities express their traumas and heal through words. As a poet, she wrote about issues affecting marginalized communities around the world, not only inspiring others to share their stories, but also healing from the battles she fought throughout her youth.
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Welcome to Amplify InBetween, where you give you samples with a bit of herstory and a little bit of fun.
In this Amplify InBetween WarriHER Edition, we give you facts and resources, and answer the question of what makes a warriHER. Can you be a revolutionary warriHER off the battlefield?
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Have you ever thought about how great it would be if specific historical figures had met, how they’d probably have been best friends or allies if they had lived in the same country or time? Or maybe you have a list of historical figures who had the same background or goal, and you thought it would be great if you could just put them in a room together and talk with them about saving the world? No? Maybe that’s just me.
Learn about the Revolutionary WarriHERS the Trưng sisters and Laskarina Bouboulina in this edition of Amplify!
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Announcement: Hello! Welcome to the first Amplify InBetween post! What is an InBetween post? It’s a post where we share multiple posts or people at once, in between our main stories.
Since the Revolutionary WarriHERs series is from July to October, we realized we couldn’t share all the Revolutionary WarriHER women that we want; so, we decided to write an InBetween post and share a list of four Revolutionary WarriHERs you should know.
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Have you ever heard the story of the lead strategist and propaganda creator who helped lead an uprising against colonizers in Peru in the late 1700s? Who united multiethnic groups in the name of freedom and resistance against tyranny? She recruited not only Indians, but also mestizos, Blacks, Creoles, and “good” Spaniards, something unheard of in eighteenth-century Peru. Famously known as the wife of rebel leader Túpac Amaru II, Micaela Bastidas Puyucahua was second-in-command of the most significant uprising in Spanish colonial history.
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When I was young, I used to pretend to be Xena, the Warrior Princess. I would wear my mother’s leather jacket, grab the removable stove ring, and run around the apartment screaming Xena-esque dialogue. After ten minutes, my mother would tell me to stop and read a book. Instead of reading, I’d become the great Maa Yaa Asantewaa. She was the queen mother of Ejisu in the Ashanti Empire (modern-day Ghana); she led her people into battle with the British in 1900.
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The great socialist, feminist, and community activist Grace Lee Boggs once said, “You cannot change any society unless you take responsibility for it, unless you see yourself as belonging to it and responsible for changing it.”
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