How do we get to a better nonviolent world? I don't have all the answers, but I do believe that more women leaders in power will help.

I hope you'll join us next week to shine a light on history through a feminist lens and push for the expansion and protection of women’s rights, LGBTQIA+ rights, and reproductive freedom. We'll be gathering for four days of events around the installation of DENDROFEMONOLOGY art in on the National Mall including speakers, an ERA convening, an abortion rights art parade, coalition-building, films, art, voter registration, and action. Join us in person in DC or online and forward this to your friends and networks.  

Watch 1 min video about the activation here.

Join us Nov. 1 at 2 pm ET for the debut of the sculpture on the National Mall with a powerful lineup of speakers including the original Wonder Woman Lynda Carter; Taste the Nation host Padma Lakshmi; labor trailblazer Dolores Huerta; #MeToo Founder Tarana Burke; Justice for Black Girls founder Brianna Baker; and the highest elected trans official, Senator Sarah McBride. There'll also be a performance by Martha Redbone. If you can't be there in person, we'll be sending highlights.

Join the cathartic flashmob dance to John Lennon's Imagine and Dee-Lite's Groove Is in the Heart, choreographed by Rena Marie Guidry, that you can learn below. Even if you can't come physically to DC, we will have a monitor and Zoom for people to join, and you can send us in a video.

The flashmob will be on Saturday Nov. 4, at the end of artist Michele Pred's Abortion Rights Art Parade, which will go from the White House to the National Mall, ending at the Feminist History Tree Ring.

Here are videos to learn the moves:
Moves with music.
Dance moves without music first, then with music  

Artist Michele Pred is leading an Abortion Rights Art Parade.

Artist Autumn Breon will be there with her Care-Machine, a powerful pink vending machine filled with banned books, abortion pills, and other feminist essentials.

Artist Whitney Bradshaw will be inviting people to participate in one of her OUTCRY Scream Sessions -- an intersectional space of radical empathy where women are empowered to reclaim the revolutionary power of their voice while being photographed mid-scream. Sign up for the activation for ways to participate.

A Tour of Her Own and the National Women’s History Museum are leading tours on the Women’s History Shuttle, which will travel between the DENDROFEMONOLOGY installation and the National Women’s History Museum’s exhibition, We Who Believe in Freedom: Black Feminist DC at the MLK Memorial Library. You can sign up here.

Near the art installation of DENDROFEMONOLOGY, there will be feminist books curated by author Rozella Kennedy who wrote Our Brave Foremothers.

This activation is put on in partnership with an incredible coalition of organizations including ERA Coalition | Planned Parenthood Action Fund | Vital Voices | GLAAD | Feminist Majority Foundation | She The People | Take The Lead | Equal Means Equal | Equality Now | Supermajority | Female Quotient | TransLatina Coalition | Reboot | BitHouse | World Wide Women | Vote Pro Choice | Voters of Tomorrow | The Feminist institute |  A Tour of Her Own.

The ERA Coalition is hosting an in-person convening during the activation, with their organizations from across the country (nearly 300 organizations are part of the ERA Coalition). 100 years after it was first introduced in Congress, the Equal Rights Amendment is fully ratified and ready to be published. We are here to help make that happen! 

On both the National Mall and on social media, we will ask the public 3 questions:
1. What milestone on the timeline has had the most impact on you, and why?
2. What's an important milestone not on the timeline that has paved the path for you?
3. What would you hope is the next milestone in feminist history?  

While the tree ring sculpture timeline is distilled to 30 burned-in milestones, we will create an expansive version of the timeline with the public's contributions, that will be featured on the National Women’s History Museum website.

Ms. Magazine published a wonderful article about what we're doing here.

My producer Sawyer Steele who's trans and I just had a conversation with Dr. Nancy O'Reilly for her podcast about the activation and how it's bringing together women's rights, trans rights, and reproductive freedom. You can listen to that conversation here. Gloria Feldt of Take The Lead and I had a deep discussion about what led to this project on a podcast that you can watch here. I also spoke with Michael Krasny on his podcast Grey Matter and with Nadine Epstein for Moment discussing DC and other things.

Follow along on social with a new line of the tree ring each day.

Looking forward to being together next week.

xo

Tiffany