Farah Tanis

Farah Tanis is a New York City–based feminist activist and co-founder and executive director of the Black Women's Blueprint and of the Museum of Women's Resistance.[1][2][3] She is the chair of the US Truth and Reconciliation Commission on Black Women and Assault.[3] She attended the 2017 Women's March to raise awareness on the trafficking of black women.[1] Having experienced physical and sexual abuse as a child, Tanis began working in activism on behalf of women around 1993, running a women's shelter before founding Black Women's Blueprint.[4] She was one of the organizers of the 2017 March for Black Women in Washington D.C.[5]

Earlier in her career, Farah co-founded Dwa Fanm, a Haitian women's organization based in Brooklyn, and served as its executive director.[6]

Publications

An Open Letter from Black Women to the SlutWalk [3]

gollark: My webserver seems to have decided to stop webserving and just has some cryptic error about goroutines and a stack trace. What joy.
gollark: The bug (at least in the form everyone was using) was affecting iOS.
gollark: It's not a kernel one, it's in their text rendering library.
gollark: In the "effective power" one, the problem was apparently some issue with processing text for display in shortened form in notifications where it accessed the wrong memory address, which made the entire process doing that exit, and apparently for some bizarre reason when the notification process exited it brought the entire OS down.
gollark: True, true, you'd expect them to have better sandboxing or something.

References
  1. "Farah Tanis". The New York Times. 2017-01-20. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2018-12-06.
  2. Lampen, Claire. "Report: NYC Black Women Face Markedly Higher Wage Gap". Gothamist. Archived from the original on 2019-02-06. Retrieved 2018-12-06.
  3. Cappiello, Katie; McInerney, Meg (2015-03-15). SLUT: A Play and Guidebook for Combating Sexism and Sexual Violence. The Feminist Press at CUNY. ISBN 9781558618718.
  4. "Hollywood is having a #MeToo moment. Women of color have fought this battle for decades". NBC News. Retrieved 2018-12-07.
  5. Chason, Rachel (September 30, 2017). "'Let the black women lead': Marches converge on D.C. to highlight racial injustice". The Washington Post.
  6. Equity, Girls for Gender; Smith, Joanne; Huppuch, Meghan; Deven, Mandy Van (2011-04-12). Hey, Shorty!: A Guide to Combating Sexual Harassment and Violence in Schools and on the Streets. The Feminist Press at CUNY. ISBN 9781558616707.
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