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Dear Friends, Family, and Supporters, We’re still here: marching, building, imagining. In this crushing moment, when so many are silenced, displaced, starved, erased, we are refusing to look away. In fact, we are choosing, daily, to show up: in our bodies, our work, our words, our communities.  We are choosing to make noise for those being silenced; to offer love where it feels like hate is winning; to hold hope in chaos.  As feminists, researchers, humanitarians, artists – as humans, we know that compassion is not soft, but rather it is fierce, active, constituted of response-ability. It is, as we say in all of our workshops,  empathy plus action .  And we truly believe it will save us. Today, we want to share updates:  Despite the loss of the majority of our funding, we continue to operate on the frontlines of crises .  Our FemSMS Ukraine work , with our dear friends and partners at  Project Kesher ,  continues to grow . As part of this tireless...