2026 Events
For 60 years, the National Organization for Women (NOW) has led the charge for gender justice—transforming outrage into action and building the largest grassroots feminist movement in the United States. Founded in 1966 by visionaries including Betty Friedan, Dr. Reverend Pauli Murray, and Muriel Fox, NOW continues today with powerful, intersectional activism across every state, advancing reproductive freedom, racial justice, LGBTQIA+ rights, and constitutional equality.
Check out what is coming in 2026 and we invite you to join us as we celebrate the legacy and the future of a movement that still shapes history.
The Cornell 7 case | Media Misogyny episode 5
This new series of pop cultural podcast with Rose Brunache, Vice-President of NOW and Shelby Von Hofe, Policy & Advocacy Director, discuss current feminist topics. New episodes post bi-weekly.
In this episode the discussion is about the Cornell 7 case. Listener Discretion advised.
If you or someone you know has experienced sexual assault, you are not alone. RAINN’s National Sexual Assault Hotline offers free, confidential, 24/7 support in English and en Español.
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The Feminist Public Square
Octobers book: Man Up by Cynthia Miller-Idriss
Click here to listen to our podcast with Cynthia.
The revelatory and urgent story of how an explosion of misogyny is driving a surge of mass and far-right violence throughout the West—from an internationally recognized extremism expert and media commentator
What two things do most mass shooters, terrorists, or violent extremists have in common? Most of us know the they are almost always men or boys. But the second? They are almost always virulent misogynists, homophobes, or transphobes—even if they are also motivated by racism, antisemitism, or xenophobia. The antigovernment militiamen charged with plotting to kidnap and execute Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer used language saturated with misogyny, with one telling an FBI informant, “Just grab the bitch.” The men who killed scores at Virginia Tech, the Pulse nightclub, and a Maryland newsroom all had prior reports of stalking, domestic violence, or harassment of women. And in dozens of other incidents—from North America to Norway to New Zealand—an increasing number of misogynist incel (involuntary celibate) and male supremacist attackers have explicitly targeted and killed women, blaming feminism or sexual frustration with women as motivation for their attacks.
Yet, despite all evidence, the bright red thread of misogyny running through these attacks is barely acknowledged by the media or even experts—and this failing leaves us powerless to stop the violence. In Man Up, Cynthia Miller-Idriss, a leading expert on extremism, addresses this crucial oversight head-on, revealing how an epidemic of misogyny—both online and off—and a patriarchal backlash are driving an exponential rise in mass and far-right violence. She also offers essential strategies that all of us—including parents, teachers, and counselors—can use to fight the rising tide of violence, beginning with recognizing the misogyny that pervades our everyday lives.
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He Can Run a Meeting but Not a Dishwasher with Annie Wright, LMFT
When someone keeps saying “I can’t,” the work doesn’t go away. Someone else picks it up. This week, Kim and Rose sit down with therapist Annie Wright to talk about weaponized incompetence, which is what happens when one person does a task badly, or claims they can’t do it at all, until the more capable person takes over. Annie shows that the viral term is actually about emotional labor and what she calls “patriarchy made personal.”
Wright talks about why ambitious, feminist women still end up carrying the load and how the same pattern follows them into the office. She also has advice for anyone who’s ready to stop rescuing. Finally, Kim and Rose open the episode with what has made them mad as hell this week: Attacks on women in public life and the fight over reproductive choice.