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Feminists for immigrant justice:
Actions to defeat S. 158

Join Feminist Generation to DEFEAT Senate Bill 158 (S. 158). We demand the Senate protect women and reject S. 158–an anti-immigrant, anti-survivor bill to carry out the MAGA-backed agenda of mass deportations. S. 158 co-opts the struggle against gendered violence to ultimately harm undocumented survivors of gendered violence who are already underserved and unprotected by our legal system.That's why we are taking action to BLOCK S. 158.Feminists will not stand for right-wing attacks on our immigrant and undocumented communities in the name of safety for women. We know that safety from gendered violence necessitates the protection of immigrants, especially undocumented women who are survivors of both sexual and domestic abuse and the violence of the immigration system.There is no safety for women without safety for undocumented women. And there is no immigrant justice without gender justice.As feminists we say not in our name! We reject S. 158 and stand with survivors, undocumented communities, and undocumented survivors. S. 158 does not make us more safe, it makes our communities less safe. S. 158 already passed the House. We must stop it from passing the Senate. Commit yourself to action today.Check out our calls to action and plug-in below.

Step 1: Call YOUR SenatorsWe are FLOODING the phones of our Senators to demand they support immigrant and gender justice. Find your senators and their contact information at Senate.Gov.Call them up and demand they vote NO on S. 158! Script below. ⤵️My name is [your name]. I am a constituent calling to urge the Senator to vote NO on S.B. 158, the “Preventing Violence Against Women by Illegal Aliens Act.”Despite its misleading title, this bill will not keep women safe. Existing laws already address forms of gender-based violence. Instead, S. 158 will harm undocumented women who are survivors of gender-based violence by making them more likely to be labeled as criminals and deported without any conviction or due process. This will open up undocumented survivors to further harm and violate fundamental freedoms and rights of all people living in the United States.If the Senator shares my concern of keeping all women safe and protecting our rights, I call on the Senator to vote NO on S.B. 158Helpful tips:- If the office does not pick up, you can still leave a voicemail.
- Make the script your own and add a personal story.
- Practice the script beforehand. Say your message out loud a couple of times to get comfortable.
- Call both your Senators and then invite your friends to do the same!Sample text to share with friends: Hey X! I just called my Senators to vote NO on S.B. 158, a bill about carrying out the MAGA-backed agenda of mass deportation. S.B. 158 co-opts the struggle against gendered violence to ultimately harm undocumented survivors of gendered violence who are already unserved and unprotected by our legal system. I know we both care about immigrant and gender justice. If you want to take action too, you can head to feministgeneration.org to access a script to call your Senators.

Step 3: Social Media PostsTake our fight against S. 158 to social media by posting, tweeting, and making videos to educate your followers, bring your friends to action, and directly put the pressure on your Senators to vote NO.Use your social platforms to denounce deportations, the demonization of immigrants, and narratives that co-opt care for women and LGBTQ+ people to support xenophobic laws.Tell and TAG your Senators to reject the anti-immigrant and anti-survivor Senate Bill 158. Post to your socials, and spam their comments.Here are sample messages, tweets, and hashtags that can be put on social media. Feel free to adapts them to fit your own voice!Sample #1:S. 158 passed the House. Now it’s up to the Senate.Feminists, it’s time to rise up.Take action with Feminist Generation to DEFEAT this anti-immigrant, anti-survivor bill by visiting FeministGeneration.Org#StopS158 #FeministsForImmigrantJusticeSample #2:@[SenatorHandle] I’m from [Your State] and I believe in real safety for survivors.Vote NO on S. 158.Undocumented survivors deserve protection, not deportation.#StopS158 #FeministsForImmigrantJusticeSample #3:Hey @[SenatorHandle] — this week, we’re rising up to defeat #S158.We demand you stand with survivors, not MAGA-led deportation policies.Vote NO on S. 158. #StopS158 #FeministsForImmigrantJustice

Step 2: Mass Email & Fax-InWe are FLOODING the email inboxes AND fax machines of our Senators to demand they vote NO on S. 158 and fight for undocumented survivors.First, send a quick email using our digital tool where all you have to do is put in your name, address, and email to automatically hit up both of your Senators.

After emailing, get a bit more creative and disruptive by faxing your Senator. Faxing is when you digitally send a document that is then printed out in the Senator's office. You can send a fax for free from your own computer to your Senators using the website https://faxzero.com/.After selecting your Senator, you will be asked to upload a document and attach a message for the cover page. Below is the PDF you can download and attach to send to your Senator. This is a one-pager outlining what S. 158 does and why we demand Senators vote NO.

After uploaded the document to fax, the digital tool will ask you to type a message to send explaining the document. Here is a sample message you can attach.Dear Senator X,My name is [your name]. I am a constituent contacting the office to urge the Senator to vote NO on S.B. 158, the “Preventing Violence Against Women by Illegal Aliens Act.”Despite its misleading title, this bill will not keep women safe. Existing laws already address forms of gender-based violence. Instead, S. 158 will harm undocumented women who are survivors of gender-based violence by making them more likely to be labeled as criminals and deported without any conviction or due process. This will open up undocumented survivors to further harm and violate fundamental freedoms and rights of all people living in the United States. I have faxed over a one-pager detailing why this bill is dangerous and harmful.If the Senator shares my concern of keeping all women safe and protecting our rights, I call on the Senator to vote NO on S.B. 158.Sincerely,
Your Name

Step 4: Meet With Senate OfficesOver the last few months, young feminists across the country have been meeting with Senate offices to demand their Senators vote NO on S. 158.The Feminist Generation team will handle the scheduling of these meetings. Training is required to participate. Sign-up required to participate! Sign-up below.

Step 5: Community Wheat-PastingWheatpasting is a street art and grassroots activism technique used to put up posters in public spaces. It involves using a simple homemade paste (typically made from flour and water) to stick printed materials, like flyers, political messages, or artwork, onto walls, poles, and other surfaces.It’s a powerful, low-cost way to spread messages, raise awareness, and reclaim public space for community voices. Put them up on campus, around your city, on local bulletin boards, and anywhere where there is a lot of foot traffic. Don’t forget to take a picture and tag us! Guides and flyers below.

the feminist generation

The feminist movement of our generation. Trump has already announced direct attacks on our communities. The fight starts now.We know women and LGBTQ+ people are direct targets of this administration, especially the BIPOC, poor, disabled, and immigrant among us. We are joining together as thousands of people united across this country to fight back and build together. We are feminists and we are fighting back.Since November, thousands of people have joined us as we hosted die-ins, rallies, pickets, meetings, mutual aid, street shut downs, walk-outs of work and school, and broke headlines around the world in a surge of feminist movement from our generation, for #ERANow and more.Now, join Young Feminist Party and The Feminist Front to build the young people-led feminist movement we need to beat the Trump agenda, protect women and LGBTQ+ people, and fight for queer, gender, and racial justice over the next four years and beyond.

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Feminist Generation is a partnership by Young Feminist Party and The Feminist Front to take on the Trump Agenda and build gender justice.

Action #1: Join the movement #FeministGeneration
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We are launching mass organizing calls and trainings joining together thousands of people across this country to fight back and build unified feminist resistance. We know women and LGBTQ+ people are direct targets of this administration, especially the BIPOC, poor, disabled, and immigrant among us.

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#ERANow

Our movement first came together to launch the #ERANow campaign to bring the Equal Rights Amendment to the national spotlight. We know the ERA protects our communities from attacks on their rights, lives, and bodies by politicians. But a constitutional amendment protects our rights, no matter who is in charge.#ERANow calls on the U.S. government to put the Equal Rights Amendment in the United States Constitution. Publication of the ERA would enshrine the following 24 words in the U.S. Constitution: “Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.” Once published, the U.S. Constitution will explicitly prohibit sex discrimination, which includes discrimination based on sexuality and gender identity. This would finally put women and queer people in the Constitution, and protect abortion, gender-affirming care, and more. A constitutional amendment is something no President can overturn.An amendment to the Constitution needs passage by 2/3rds of Congress and ratification from 38 states. The ERA has met those requirements.

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Feminist generation statements

04/09/2025: Attacks on Young Organizers Must End. Statement on the Targeting of Students for a Free Palestine.We stand against and unequivocally condemn the targeting of student activists fighting for a free Palestine. We strongly condemn the arrests of Mahmoud Khalil, Rumeysa Ozturk, Alireza Doudi, Momodou Taal and all student organizers whose immigration status and courage to stand up against injustice has been exploited by the Trump administration’s agenda to thwart and suppress a popular movement’s struggle for justice.This is a call to action for all feminists and organizers who believe in justice and equality. We must rise up, join the student divest movement, and demand accountability from those who seek to suppress free expression and justice movements. It is essential that we protect the rights of students, especially those from marginalized communities.

2/28/2025: Trans folks are under attack by the Trump Administration. We must fight back.In the month since Trump’s inauguration multiple transgender people of color have been murdered. We honor the lives of Sam Nordquist and Tahiry Broom, two transgender people who deserved to live safely but faced violence, torture, and targeted murders based on their identity as trans people.Transgender, non-binary, and gender expansive people have always and will always exist, and have always and will always be leaders in the fight for gender justice. We call on all feminists to fight back against the Trump administration’s dangerous, transphobic executive orders and actions.We demand the Trump administration immediately reverse the attacks on trans people. We the peoples of the United States condemn these actions, we will resist, and will not comply. We demand not only the reversal of these attacks but gender justice NOW.

3/08/2025: International Women's Day 2025 StatementOn International Women’s Day 2025, Feminist Generation, a movement partnership of Young Feminist Party and The Feminist Front, is taking action against the right-wing attacks threatening our communities and demands Donald Trump rescind his orders attacking trans folks and undocumented people. Under the banner #FeministsFightBack, this International Women’s Day, we are calling on all feminists to mobilize in defense of trans people, especially trans women, undocumented people, and undocumented women, who are facing escalating violence, discrimination, and attacks.This International Women’s Day 2025, we call on feminists everywhere to take action and resist this Administration. Organize in your communities, disrupt systems of harm, and show up for trans and undocumented communities.

2/17/2025: The Status of the Equal Rights AmendmentTo gain the ERA’s protections against sex and gender discrimination and protect women and LGBTQ communities we must now win the fight to implement and enforce the 28th Amendment to advance gender, racial, and queer justice for all.Just three weeks into the Trump presidency, the urgent need for the protections the ERA can provide is clear. ERA advocates are strategizing around federal implementation of the Equal Rights Amendment. As founding partners of the #ERANow campaign that helped push President Biden to declare the Equal Rights Amendment as the law of the land, the Feminist Generation movement is helping to lead strategy around the next steps in the fight for equal rights for all.The success of the #ERANow movement shows the power of when the people come together. Our generation refuses to back down, it’s time to build feminists futures for all.

Statement: Attacks on Young Organizers Must End, Statement on the Targeting of Students for a Free Palestine

04/09/2025We stand against and unequivocally condemn the targeting of student activists fighting for a free Palestine. We strongly condemn the arrests of Mahmoud Khalil, Rumeysa Ozturk, Alireza Doudi, Momodou Taal and all student organizers whose immigration status and courage to stand up against injustice has been exploited by the Trump administration’s agenda to thwart and suppress a popular movement’s struggle for justice. These abhorrent assaults on people’s fundamental rights directly assault not only individual rights, but the core democratic values that should protect all voices, particularly those of young people and marginalized communities. Students, as our future leaders and change-makers, must never be silenced or targeted for exercising their right to express their views and stand against US-backed genocide.Young people, especially students, have historically stood at the forefront of social movements, driving change long before larger society accepts movements for justice. They are often the catalysts for progress, challenging systems of injustice and pushing for a better future. It remains crucial that we support and protect their right to speak out, as their voices are essential in shaping the world we live in. In this moment young people, especially young students of color, must be protected.This is a call to action for all feminists and organizers who believe in justice and equality. We must rise up, join the student divest movement, and demand accountability from those who seek to suppress free expression and justice movements. It is essential that we protect the rights of students, especially those from marginalized communities. This is not just about one person or several students, this is about defending the principles of democracy, freedom, and human dignity for everyone and challenging ongoing U.S. mass violence.Moreover, we stand against the ongoing genocide in Palestine. The systemic violence and oppression being carried out against the Palestinian people must end. We cannot remain silent in the face of these atrocities. We call for an end to the violence, now. Let us stand together in solidarity, ensuring that no one—especially students—is silenced in the pursuit of justice, freedom, and dignity, and a world without genocide.

Statement: Trans folks are under attack by the Trump Administration. We must fight back.

02/28/2025Donald Trump has started his second term as President by attacking our most vulnerable communities via executive orders and actions. His administration is trying to both demonize and disappear transgender, non-binary, and gender expansive people by rolling back hard-won rights, creating administrative chaos, and criminalizing bodily autonomy, gender-affirming care, and inclusive education. These attacks have created de facto travel bans for certain gender expansive people with gender-corrected passports, caused healthcare providers to stop offering gender-affirming care services, limited classroom content and interactions that respect people’s pronouns and identities, and emboldened cultural and institutional transphobia and discrimination. These executive orders and actions are unacceptable. They infringe on our basic rights and make vulnerable communities even more unsafe as transphobia and gender discrimination continue to gain traction. We must continue to disrupt these narratives and demand that institutions do not comply with transphobic orders and directives.We condemn these attacks on our trans siblings and the scapegoating of queer communities. We know that intersectional feminism demands valuing, respecting, uplifting, and working with transgender and nonbinary organizations and leaders. We will continue to empower gender expansive leaders and members in our organization and take action together to resist these transphobic attacks.The attacks on trans, non-binary, and gender expansive communities by politicians emboldens greater violence against transgender and non-binary people. As we witnessed Trump’s first term led to a dramatic increase in hate crimes and identity-based attacks, now this rhetoric is connected to current attacks on queer and transgender people. In the month since Trump’s inauguration multiple transgender people of color have been murdered. We honor the lives of Sam Nordquist and Tahiry Broom, two Black transgender people who deserved to live safely but faced violence, torture, and targeted murders based on their identity as trans people.This is happening while simultaneously trans people, especially young people, are being targeted by mass state violence. Intersectional feminism demands bodily autonomy for all people and that includes gender affirming care. As grassroots feminist youth organizers, we are very aware that these attacks are focused most heavily on trans and non-binary students and young people as classrooms, college health centers, and university hospitals have become central locations in the fight for gender expansive rights. Our generation must not back down. We must resist these attacks, combat these anti-trans narratives, and defend gender-affirming care, as it is a life-changing and life-saving resource for queer people of all ages.Transgender, nonbinary, and gender expansive people have always and will always exist, and have always and will always be leaders in the fight for gender justice. We call on all feminists to fight back against the Trump administration’s dangerous, transphobic executive orders and actions.We demand the Trump administration immediately reverse the attacks on trans people. We the peoples of the United States condemn these actions, we will resist, and will not comply. We demand not only the reversal of these attacks but gender justice NOW.

STATEMENT: This International Women’s Day, We Demand: Stop the Attacks on Trans and Undocumented Women – #FeministsFightBack

On International Women’s Day 2025, Feminist Generation, a movement partnership of Young Feminist Party and The Feminist Front, is taking action against the right-wing attacks threatening our communities and demands Donald Trump rescind his orders attacking trans folks and undocumented people. Under the banner #FeministsFightBack, this International Women’s Day, we are calling on all feminists to mobilize in defense of trans people, especially trans women, undocumented people, and undocumented women, who are facing escalating violence, discrimination, and attacks.This International Women’s Day 2025, we call on feminists everywhere to take action and resist this Administration. Organize in your communities, disrupt systems of harm, and show up for trans and undocumented communities.This International Women’s Day, March 8, 2025:◦ We demand an end to anti-trans attacks, immigrant detention, deportations, and all forms of gendered violence.
◦ We demand institutions DO NOT COMPLY with these orders attacking trans and undocumented communities.
◦ We demand everyday working people challenge the administration as it strips our rights and rapidly erodes pillars of democracy.The MAGA agenda, driven by white supremacy, cisheteropatriarchy, and xenophobia, has targeted our most marginalized communities with dangerous legislation and rhetoric that strips away rights, dignity, and safety. Trans women are being criminalized, denied safety and healthcare, and attacked in public spaces. Undocumented women face family separation, detention, and deportation, while facing both the violence of gender injustice and the immigration system. These are not isolated attacks—they are part of a coordinated effort to erase, control, and dehumanize our people.We refuse to stand by while our communities are under attack. We say to this government and to larger society. Stop targeting trans and undocumented women NOW.Feminism that does not fight for trans and undocumented women is not feminism at all. The fight for gender justice is inseparable from the fight for racial, economic, and migrant justice. We will not allow the far-right to define who deserves safety, dignity, and belonging. We reject the fear-mongering, the policy violence, and the deliberate attempts to pit marginalized communities against each other. Instead, we stand united in radical solidarity, building collective power to resist and dismantle these oppressive systems.Feminism is not just about representation or inclusion—it is about fighting for the liberation of all people, especially those most at risk. Together, we fight back. Together, we win.

Statement: The status of the equal rights amendment

02/17/2025Before leaving office, President Biden declared that the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) had met all necessary requirements to become the law of the land. After years of organizing from The Feminist Front, Young Feminist Party, and numerous other organizations, we won this recognition of the ERA as the 28th Amendment from the President of the United States for the first time in the 101-year history of ERA organizing.This happened because thousands of everyday people rose up to demand #ERANow. Thousands took actions with us from banner drops, die-ins, civil disobedience, calls, letters, lobby visits and more. This HUGE win for our movement has progressed the fight for equality and justice under the law but the fight is NOT over yet.To gain the ERA’s protections against sex and gender discrimination and protect women and LGBTQ communities we must now win the fight to implement and enforce the 28th Amendment to advance gender, racial, and queer justice for all. Just three weeks into the Trump presidency, the urgent need for the protections the ERA can provide is clear. ERA advocates are strategizing around federal implementation of the Equal Rights Amendment. As founding partners of the #ERANow campaign that helped push President Biden to declare the Equal Rights Amendment as the law of the land, the Feminist Generation movement is helping to lead strategy around the next steps in the fight for equal rights for all.Actions we are pursuing to support the Equal Rights Amendment include:- Pushing State Legislatures to affirm that the Equal Rights Amendment is the law of the land- Organizing for the twelve remaining states to ratify the federal Equal Rights Amendment, sending a powerful message that all of America demands and deserves equality under the law.- Pressuring State Attorney Generals to affirm the Equal Rights Amendment is the law of the land as chief legal officers in their states.- Passing expansive State Equal Rights Amendments in nearly half of all U.S. states which still do not guarantee protections against sex and gender discrimination in their state constitutions.- Demanding the U.S. Congress remove the arbitrary deadline on ratification and affirm the Equal Rights Amendment to bolster our position against future legal challenges.- Urging the National Archivist to perform the ministerial duty of ERA certification and publication, as directed by the White House, to bolster our position against future legal challenges.The success of the #ERANow movement shows the power of when the people come together. Our generation refuses to back down, it’s time to build feminists futures for all.

March 8th: Feminists fight back

International Women's Day (IWD) has deep revolutionary roots tied to socialist, labor, and transnational feminist movements across the world. It originated in the early 20th century, inspired by working-class women's struggles for better wages, shorter hours, and voting rights.This year Feminist Generation is launching a Day of Action on IWD, March 8th, under the banner #FeministsFightBack to fight the MAGA agenda attacking our communities. We are using this International Women’s Day to stand for Trans folks, including trans women, and Undocumented folks, including undocumented women. This is the beginning of an escalation plan.We're empowering and supporting young feminists in organizing local, disruptive action to demand our school, local, and state institutions DO NOT COMPLY with far-right attacks on our rights. Sign-up to host an action in your community, and we will reach out with the resources, trainings, and community you need to host these actions. Whether you want to organize a banner-drop, a demonstration, disruption, walk-out, letter-writing meet-up or wheat paste flyers around your community, we got you. No act of resistance is too small. As feminists, we must respond to attacks on trans, undocumented, BIPOC, women, and poor and working folks. We must organize our communities to resist. Join the March 8th Feminists Fight Back day of action.This action is in alignment with the Women's March Unite & Resist International Women's Day call to action. Find actions near you, and plug-in here: https://www.womensmarch.com/initiatives/international-womens-day-unite-and-resist.

#FeministFightBack
March 8 Digital Actions

This International Women's Day #FeministsFightBack - The fight for our rights is on the streets, in government offices, AND online. Join our digital actions by posting and boosting our feminist demands for gender justice online.BLOCK ATTACKS ON UNDOCUMETED WOMEN:This IWD as part of #FeministsFightBack, take action to stand with undocumented women and survivors and block HR 30, a racist bill that would allow survivors of domestic violence to be deported without due process under the law. We are calling on the Senate Judiciary Committee to reject this racist attack on immigrants and survivors. We know that immigrant justice and gender justice are tied. Today on International Women’s Day take action and tell the Senate to Vote NO on HR 30.

POST WITH #FEMINISTSFIGHTBACK1. Post #FeministsFightBack and words from your heart expressing your thoughts on why you are standing with undocumented and trans women this IWD, on the comments section of every MAGA politician and pundit across the web.2. Post the following and tag @youngfeministparty @thefeministfront #FeministsFightBack in your posts.Sample Tweets/Posts:◦ Trans folks and undocumented folks are under attack—We are fighting back. This IWD, I join with thousands of voices across the country demanding that @POTUS immediately end the attacks on trans rights and deportations, detentions, and criminalization. 🚨 #FeministsFightBack #IWD◦ Borders, prisons, and anti-trans laws are tools of the same violent system. This IWD, feminists are rising up for migrant and trans justice! #FeministsFightBack #IWD◦ End the attacks on trans and undocumented communities NOW! This #IWD, we demand protections for trans people, an end to deportations, and the abolition of ICE and detention centers. 🏳️⚧️✊🏽 #FeministsFightBack◦ Abolish ICE. Stop trans bans. Defend migrant and trans lives. This IWD, feminists demand real justice—no borders, no binaries, no more state violence! 💥🔥 #FeministsFightBack◦ No more anti-trans laws. No more deportations. No more policing of our lives. This IWD, feminists demand an end to the Trump administration’s attacks on trans and migrant communities NOW! #FeministsFightBack◦ We demand immediate protections for trans people, an end to the criminalization of undocumented folks, and full rights for all. This IWD, we fight for liberation, not exclusion! 🏳️⚧️✊🏽 #FeministsFightBack