Thriving Women
Recognizes Indigenous women and girls’ inherent strength and capacity for healing, leadership, and regenerating positive futures.
Thriving Women affirms and amplifies the leadership of Indigenous women to reclaim traditional matrilineal lifeways – those of which have upheld nations since time immemorial. It recognizes the targeting of Indigenous women and girls as the embodiment of colonization, and the link between extractive industries and violence against Mother Earth.
The program supports grassroots, Indigenous women-led and serving initiatives to prevent and remedy gender oppression including strategies addressing MMIWg2; uplifts matrilineal healing and wellness practices (birthkeeping, reproductive health, body sovereignty, arts, etc.), bolsters coming-of-age ceremonies; advances multi-generational kinship and leadership development, and revives ancestral food systems and land practices.
Thriving Women is implemented through the following pathways for gender and social justice:
- Birthkeeping, Motherhood, and Kinship
- Honoring the Rights of Mother Earth
- Reclaiming a World Without Violence Against Women, Girls, and Two-Spirits
- Women and Girls’ Cultural Vitality and Leadership
The critical need to respond to and support the work of Thriving Women continues to grow.
