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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.