**Trigger warning**
Reposting this web-gem from here, because we love the way it puts the focus and responsibility for sexual assault back onto perpetrators!  Female-identified people get a lot of messages about what we need to do to keep ourselves safe and minimize our risk of sexual assault (carry our keys in our hands to use [...]

The Doula Project is now accepting applications for a spring internship. By joining the Doula Project, you will have the opportunity to work with people across the spectrum of pregnancy in NYC. Please see below for more details and the full application.
Organization’s Mission:
The Doula Project is an NYC-based organization that provides free compassionate care and [...]

Registration for the 2011 RISE Conference is open!

RISE is a grassroots collective of social workers and activists in NYC. We create spaces where progressive and radical ideas can be shared to build knowledge, skills and community. We want to inspire social workers to create a world where the need for social work is made obsolete.
RISE hosts an annual social justice  conference and [...]

FTB would like to announce the next event in the Birds of Summer Series: A benefit show to celebrate “The Worst”–a compilation zine exploring contributors’ experiences with grief and loss from radical, D.I.Y., and alternative viewpoints.  The show will help to raise money to cover printing costs for the zine, which has sold nearly 1500 [...]

 
Women’s Work is a collaborative textiles sculpture for female-identified survivors of rape and abuse involving radical sewing circles and holistic healing. The artist, Amanda Millis states, “I want to create the safest world community for survivors of rape, violence, and trauma.”
The project is partially funded by the [...]

Check out this amazing annual FREE event that showcases female hip hop artists, with a special focus on women of color.
Saturday: 2:00-5:00pm
450 Grand Concourse (at 149th St.) Bronx, NY (Main Theater @ Hostos Community College)
Momma’s Hip Hop Kitchen Volume 4, “Let’s Get Active!” will be honoring International Women’s Month by addressing some of the health [...]

Sistas on the Rise is an amazing south Bronx-based collective working to empower and support young mothers and women of color.  They urgently need donations!! Sistas on the Rise is unique in that they create space for youth to do hands-on organizing for themselves, enacting their goal of empowerment through their [...]

The second issue of The Worst, a compilation zine on grief and loss, is finished!  In it, 16 contributors have shared their art, writing, and insight into their experiences dealing with the death of friends, parents, grandparents, partners, children, and fellow organizers.  The authors articulate their thoughts on how grief impacts our sense [...]

Hello Everyone!
First and foremost thank you for an amazing turn out and great participation–we felt that this year’s Big She-Bang was a great success! However, what’s most important is what you thought! We have gained invaluable insight into how we can better work with our larger community from conducting post-event surveys in the past and [...]

The Big She-Bang is an annual event that takes place every August. It was originally the brain child of the Long Island Womyn’s Collective, an amazing group which included several current For the Birds members. This will be the third year that the Big She-Bang takes place in New York City and we hope you [...]