Our history started long before 2008, when the idea for a young feminist fund began to take root. Today, FRIDA continues to be the only youth-led fund exclusively supporting young feminist organizing.
This year, on International Women’s Day, we tried to pay tribute to the women who paved the way before us, acknowledging that their individual lives are a part of our collective story. We wanted to reaffirm and acknowledge that while dedicating our work to young women and girls, we are not separate from our elders . Our work is informed by, built from, and intrinsically linked to theirs. It is for this reason that we celebrate their resistance, which defied systems that denied young women and girls entry to platforms of power.
We continue to throw light on some very inspiring women whose initial push, advise, support and envisoning has helped become FRIDA what it is today. In recognising that our memories are a part of our resistance, we embark on a journey to document our beginnings through the life stories of our founders.
Each story is a reflection, a reliving of memory, sharing of symbols and artefacts, and a reaffirmation of the belief that young feminist organizing can change the course of history.