GLORIA STEINEM in Albuquerque!

Last night four of our SF NOW members were in Albuquerque to celebrate the 40th Anniverssary of The NM Women's Resource Center and The UNM Women's Studies Program.  We were honored to be there for Gloria Steinem to acknowledge those feminists that worked so hard to create these two entities so long ago.  Steinem was [...]

October 31st, 2012 | Category: Feminism, Uncategorized | Leave a comment

“A Conversation with Jessica Valenti”

  The Santa Fe NOW / Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice fundraiser for the Pro-Choice Safety Network Fund featuring feminist author Jessica Valenti was a huge success!  Thanks to everyone who volunteered, donated, and attended our events.  The afternoon Meet the Author buffet at Jambo Café was completely sold out and the evening event, “A [...]

October 3rd, 2012 | Category: Choice, Equal Rights, Events, Feminism, NOW-Out and About, Reproductive Freedom, Roe v Wade, War on Women | Leave a comment

NOW at PRIDE

Famous feminists at PRIDE June 2012

Saturday, June 25 was a culmination of a week-long celebration of PRIDE in Santa Fe was the PRIDE March and Parade in the historic Railyard Park.

Now Santa Fe members joined in solidarity with our LGBTQ brothers and sisters to support women's issues and feminism by wearing the name of famous feminists on their back.

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June 27th, 2012 | Category: Equal Rights, Feminism, NOW-Out and About, Reproductive Freedom | One comment

Year of the (Young) Woman

Reposted from The Nation

by Jessica Valenti on May 15, 2012

Komen. Sandra Fluke. Transvaginal. The reason these words are instantly recognizable—the reason the “war on women” is now part of the national conversation—is largely thanks to younger women and online organizing. Behind every recent battle against the onslaught of sexism has [...]

May 17th, 2012 | Category: Feminism, Reproductive Freedom, War on Women | 3 comments