About The Hysterical Womxn's Society
The Hysterical Womxn's Society is a collective of womxn and allies building awareness, understanding, and allyship through intentional and informed dialogue on reproductive justice issues. The Society provides a platform for conversation and inspiration through content, events, and partnerships with the goal of inciting change and action.
Guiding Principles
We are connectors who build and foster intentionally diverse community. We encourage the respectful sharing of different perspectives and believe that intersectionality must always be central to every single discussion of reproductive rights. We do not shy away from the uncomfortable topics, and we are unafraid to ask the difficult questions.
We don’t believe in podiums, we believe in round tables. We recognize that we each are on our own individual learning journeys, and we always operate from a place of humility with a student mindset.
When words fail, art speaks for us. We believe that arts and culture are a shared language that can and should open doors to a deeper connection to diverse perspectives and backgrounds, both in expression and in experience.
The Hysterical Womxn Story
In mid-2018, we turned on the news every morning to another story of basic human rights being ripped away in our country. We all had the same reaction: “What can I do?” We marched in rallies, we posted on social media, we donated to NGOs working on the ground -- but still, each day brought more headlines, more devastating statistics, more reasons to become hysterical. We decided it was time for action. We united as a group of women from different backgrounds and different skills to channel our powers in support of the fight for reproductive rights, which served as our focal point for our fundraising campaigns and events through our first year. But over the course of that year, we saw that impact came not only from the fundraising but – perhaps even more powerfully – from the conversations that were sparked as these engaged, fighting spirits joined forces. We came together to discuss sex positivity, intentional allyship, intersectionality, and so much more. And with each conversation, we looked around and saw that the real power of our community was not just in how we worked together for a shared cause, but in the building of the community itself. While we will always have reproductive rights as a core motivation for the group, in Year Two and beyond we want to commit ourselves not just to fundraising for issues close to our hearts, but to a people-first approach that fully realizes the potential of intentional dialogue and community.
