FEMINIST GENERATION In the News
Youth Organizations Representing Millions Say: Not Another Dime for Violence in Our Cities! (United We Dream)
Trans Athletes Protest Sports Bans at the Supreme Court: "We Refuse to Back Down" (Teen Vogue)
Columnist Carrie Baker with Inanna Balkin: Young feminist activism in the Valley and beyond (Daily Hampshire Gazette)
How algorithms, alpha males and tradwives are winning the war for kids’ minds (19th News)
January 26th, 2026
It is also on the heels of Members of Congress in the House passing an unconscionable funding bill to give ICE $400 million more in taxpayer funding, on top of the already $170 billion in funding appropriated in the Big Ugly Bill last year. With state-led violence in our cities escalating at an alarming rate, United We Dream, Alliance for Youth Action, Youth Civic Accelerator, Feminist Generation and Gen-Z for Change, released the following statement, demanding the U.S. Senate vote against any funding to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) immediately.
January 15th, 2026
While the fate of trans women and girls’ ability to participate fully in their sports of choice hangs in the balance, Tuesday’s rally proved that the trans community and its allies aren’t about to go down without a fight. “Sports were a central part of my life growing up, and Emily and all trans kids deserve the right to have that same opportunity,” continued Rosie, adding: “No kid should be made to feel like they don't belong just because of who they are.”
August 27th, 2025
The Amherst chapter of Feminist Generation has ambitious plans for next year. With support from a grant by the League of Women Voters, they are launching an initiative to promote youth voter engagement in the 2026 elections. Alongside this work, they are researching gender-based wage gaps in local governments and at the University of Massachusetts, and joining with Planned Parenthood to implement a comprehensive sex education curriculum at Amherst Regional High School. Now more than ever, intergenerational feminist activism matters — in the Valley and beyond. Working together is how we will resist the Trump administration’s rollback of women’s rights and fight for a more equitable and just future.
June 30th, 2025
“This kid was engaging with content that promotes blatant misogyny, and he didn’t even realize how harmful it was,” said Santoshi, now 18 and the National Political Director of Feminist Generation, a youth-led organization that opposes authoritarianism. The encounter was a chilling sign of how deeply the “manosphere” — a network of online influencers promoting male supremacy and far-right ideologies — had infiltrated popular culture.
‘Protect us’: Young people urge Biden to add women and LGBTQ+ people to the Constitution (19th News)
January 16th, 2025
Every day for the final week-and-a-half of Joe Biden’s presidency, Rosie Couture and other members of the Young Feminist Party she co-founded in high school have been picketing in sub-freezing temperatures outside the White House, urging the outgoing president to make sure the U.S. Constitution protects their rights before he leaves office. Couture is in college now, as are most of the members of the core group that have shown up each day, even after a snowstorm. Every morning, they have bundled up and walked from the AirBnb they’re sharing to the coffee shop near the White House that they use as staging area and respite from the cold. For eight hours, they rotate in and out of their huddle at the South Gate, where they hand tourists flyers summarizing what they want Biden to do: Publish the Equal Rights Amendment.
120 House Dems Call on Biden to Get Equal Rights Amendment Ratified (Rollingstone)
December 15th, 2024
Members of the House authored a letter urging President Joe Biden to take action to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment, protecting rights for all regardless of sex, before he leaves office early next year. “As we approach the conclusion of your historic administration, we urge you to take immediate action to recognize the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) as the 28th amendment to the U.S. Constitution,” they wrote in the letter dated Sunday. “We must continue our efforts to fully affirm and recognize the equality of rights for all people, regardless of sex, as part of our Constitution, a vital effort that has never been more urgent.”
Dozens of Democrats Join Activists in Demanding Biden Certify Equal Rights Amendment (Democracy Now)
December 12th, 2024
U.S. Capitol Police arrested several activists Tuesday as they blocked Constitution Avenue as part of a protest demanding President Biden publish the Equal Rights Amendment before leaving office. Dozens of Democrats are also calling on Biden to quickly move to codify the ERA, which has been approved by 38 states but was never ratified. Among them is Congressmember Cori Bush, who spoke at a press conference on Tuesday, the 101st anniversary of the ERA’s introduction in Congress.
We just got arrested for demanding that Biden codify sex equality (The Guardian)
December 11th, 2024
On Tuesday, we shut down Constitution Avenue in Washington DC, demanding that Joe Biden publish the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) and explicitly codify sex equality for women and queer people in the US constitution. The ERA can protect women’s and LGBTQ+ rights under a second Trump administration. That’s why our generation has taken up the 101-year-long struggle for constitutional sex equality.
Democrats, advocates urge Biden to sign ERA before end of term (The Hill)
December 10th, 2024
“President Biden, we shouldn’t have to fight so hard. You promised the young people of America you would fight for us and fight for our futures,” Rosie Couture of Feminist Generation, said at the event. “You promised us to defend our reproductive freedom. You promised us to protect our access to gender-affirming health care and safe schools. You promised to protect us against gender-based violence. You remain the one person standing in between the young people, the young women and queer people of America and our inclusion in the United States Constitution — my inclusion in the United States Constitution,” Couture continued.