In 2025 we are excited to mark Feminist.com’s 30th anniversary, and we have much to celebrate as we look back at the last three decades! Over the next few months, our website and newsletter will include a retrospective featuring flashbacks to Feminist.com’s work and partnerships over the years. We look forward to celebrating our accomplishments with all of you and setting the stage for the next 30 years of impactful work together.
2012 FemSalon Series: Women & Money: Reimagining Economics
Our 2012 salon on Women & Money: Reimagining Economics was hosted at the NoVo Foundation and sponsored by both the NoVo Foundation and Women on Fire. The venue was packed with committed changemakers engaged in conversation on how to redefine money and economics toward abundance, sharing, and joy rather than scarcity, competition, and greed. Speakers Jennifer Buffett, co-president and co-board chair of the NoVo Foundation, and Kathy LeMay, formerly of Raising Change, shared the importance of imagining a new possibility—a transformation of our economy—similar to how a caterpillar transforms to become a butterfly.
As LeMay says, “All you have to do is look at the history of movement building throughout the world and you will see that people have made shifts that everyone at one point thought were completely impossible.” In an article for Feminist.com, Buffet asks, “What if we saw more clearly the design and limitations of our current financial system and started to create alternatives that were designed to support all of us? We’ve moved out of the industrial age into the information age, so why can’t our money system also change paradigmatically and evolve to reflect our evolution and changing needs?”
Watch some of the highlights and get more information about the Women & Money salon on Feminist.com, including a list of attendees and additional resources.
As protests sweep across the United States and many fear of escalating conflict around the world, we are looking back to our 2013 salon on Women & Peace: Transforming Conflict. Held in partnership with Peace Is Loud at the home of filmmaker Abigail Disney, the salon brought together incredible women peacemakers including Nobel Laureate Jody Williams, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom Secretary General Madeleine Rees, Association for Women's Rights in Development Executive Director Lydia Alpízar Durán, World YWCA General Secretary Nyaradzayi Gumbonzvanda and the Honorable Shinkai Karokhail, member of parliament in Afghanistan.
A packed audience engaged in conversation on the power of collective activism, investing in intergenerational leadership, and women’s roles as agents of change. Twelve years later, the words of Gumbonzvanda continue to feel poignant: “There cannot be peace unless we dare... to turn anger into transformation we need to be shaping the narrative. That narrative is our narrative, we the majority of the population in many countries, and that narrative is about women’s human rights, it’s about freedom from violence, it's about living a world free of conflict, it's about making the personal very political, and lastly it’s about resources.” Get inspired by watching some of the highlights and learn more about Women & Peace: Transforming Conflict salon on Feminist.com, including speaker videos and a list of attendees.
We held the first salon of our FemSalon Series in Spring 2012 on The State of Feminism. Hosted by Gloria Steinem at her home, the room was filled with incredible people, longtime friends, supporters and colleagues, who gathered together to affirm the importance of women’s voices and leadership in all aspects of society – a message that perhaps feels even more relevant today. As featured speaker Carol Gilligan, psychologist and author, remarked, “feminism is... one of the greatest liberation movements in human history. It’s the movement to liberate democracy from patriarchy.”
Other speakers included Devaki Jain, Kathy LeMay, Pat Mitchell, Kathy Najimy, Marianne Schnall and Gloria Steinem. Watch some of the highlights and get more information about The State of Feminism salon on Feminist.com, including speaker videos and a list of attendees.
Stay tuned for news about special plans and events we have planned to commemorate our 30 Year Anniversary, including a relaunch of our website.
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