The Feminist Uprising

The Feminist Uprising (The FU) is a queer, intersectional feminist nonprofit based in Long Beach, CA. Woman-founded and primarily woman-led, we are guided by a diverse leadership team and an non-hierarchical structure that ensures our work remains truly grassroots and community-driven.

We organize for justice through mutual aid, feminist education, creative resistance, and collective care. Our work centers those most impacted by systemic oppression, specifically BIPOC, queer and trans folks, disabled people, immigrants, workers, and women. We believe feminism must be anti-racist, anti-capitalist, abolitionist, and always unapologetic.

From Feminist Cafes and reproductive justice work to mutual aid maker’s markets (The Leaf & Loom Collective), Resistance Gardens, radical zines, and ICE response, we build spaces that prioritize healing, solidarity, and everyday resistance.

We don’t just talk about liberation. We grow it, share it, and live it. Together.

Thank you for your support. Every dollar donated goes directly to our projects and initiatives. 

Some of our current projects include:

Annual Long Beach Women's Fair & Fierce Women Awards

Overview: The Annual Long Beach Women’s Fair is an empowering event held each year on Women’s Equality Day, August 26th, to celebrate and support women and girls in the community. The fair serves as a gathering space for organizations, activists, families, and individuals who are committed to advancing gender equality and providing free resources and education to uplift women’s lives. Additionally, we host the Fierce Woman Awards, honoring women making significant contribution to the community.

Goals: 

• Raise awareness for women's rights and equality
• Promote community engagement
• Offer free resources and support
• Celebrate Women’s Achievements through events like the Fierce Women Awards

Feminist Cafe Series 

Overview: The establishment of pop-up feminist cafes, providing inclusive spaces for open dialogues, panels, Q&A sessions, workshops and town hall meetings. These cafes will serve as dynamic forums to discuss an extensive range of feminist topics, fostering understanding, advocacy, and community building. Here are just a few of the topics we plan to discuss in upcoming cafes: Communicating Intersectionality, Living with Disabilities in an Ableist World, Prioritizing Queer and Trans Health & Wellness, Environmental Intersectionality, Discussing Mental Health and so much more.

Goals: 

• Host inclusive and intersectional conversations on a variety of feminist subjects to address the multifaceted dimensions of gender equality and social justice.
• Create an accessible platform for community members to engage with experts, activists, and each other in meaningful dialogues.
• Raise awareness about various feminist issues and provide educational resources to attendees, fostering a deeper understanding of the challenges faced by different communities.
• Encourage participants to turn discussions into actionable initiatives, supporting and advocating for feminist causes on local, national, and global scales.

The Leaf & Loom Collective

Overview: The Leaf & Loom Collective is a mutual aid maker’s market rooted in feminist values of skill-sharing, community care, and collective resilience. This event brings together bakers, gardeners, crafters, herbalists, and artists to exchange goods and knowledge through trade and gifting. The Collective centers community wealth over capitalism and honors creative labor, especially from women, queer, trans, disabled, and BIPOC makers.

Goals:

• Foster community interdependence through mutual aid and gift economy practices

• Uplift local craftspeople and traditional skills as forms of feminist resistance

• Build sustainable alternatives to extractive economic systems

• Create joyful, inclusive spaces where creativity and care thrive

Lilith Gardens Project

Overview: Our Lilith Gardens Project reclaim land and cultivate healing through herbal and food-based plantings. Rooted in feminist liberation, these gardens provide space for growing medicinal herbs and culturally significant plants, especially those historically used for reproductive health and healing.

Goals:

• Grow community-based knowledge of plant medicine and herbal traditions

• Uplift the legacy of resistance through ancestral and sacred healing plants

• Reclaim gardening as a spiritual and political act of autonomy and care

• Provide herbs to the community, especially those related to reproductive justice