Every Woman is Worthy

06/10/2026

While some people are working to erase LGBTQ+ people from public life, others are making history. 🌈✨

If you’d like to take a small action today:

❤️ Tag an LGBTQ+ woman or femme in the comments whose work, creativity, leadership, or advocacy deserves recognition.

📲 Follow for uplifting stories and positive LGBTQ+ news.

🤝 Support which provides mutual aid and emergency support for transgender and non-binary people facing crisis situations.

💚 Donate to whose crisis services, research, education, and advocacy efforts help support LGBTQ+ young people around the world.

Small actions may not change everything overnight, but together they help build a more visible, compassionate, and inclusive world.

Sending love 🩷🫂

06/08/2026

After learning that many disposable pads contain large amounts of plastic and can take centuries to decompose, Raheema Auwal-Panti launched PantiPads. 👏

Her project uses materials such as cassava peels, banana leaves, and corn husks to create more sustainable menstrual products.

Her work aims to tackle two challenges at once:
🩸 Expanding access to period care
🌱 Reducing plastic pollution

The project is also helping spark conversations about menstrual stigma, which continues to affect girls’ education, health, and opportunities in many parts of the world.

Raheema’s innovation has already earned international recognition, including selection as a finalist for the 2026 Earth Prize.

“PantiPads was born from my personal experiences with period stigma, period poverty, and the lack of affordable and comfortable menstrual products in my community.” -Raheema Auwal-Panti

✨ One young woman. One idea. Global impact.

Follow and support her as she rises to solve challenges faced by millions of women and girls. 🫶

06/08/2026

Not everyone who needs help can safely say the words out loud.

This hand gesture is known as the “Signal for Help”. It was created by the Canadian Women’s Foundation and is now recognized internationally as a silent way to communicate:

✋ I need help.
✋ I am in danger.
✋ I am being controlled.

How it works:
1️⃣ Hold one hand up, palm facing outward.
2️⃣ Tuck your thumb into your palm.
3️⃣ Fold your fingers down over your thumb.

While this signal is often associated with domestic violence, it may also be used by people experiencing coercive control, abuse, human trafficking, or other dangerous situations.

Important: There is no single universal trafficking SOS signal used worldwide.

Someone experiencing trafficking may instead use:
• Coded language or phrases
• Notes or written messages
• Eye contact or body language
• Repeated distress signals
• Requests that seem unusual or out of context

Potential warning signs of trafficking or exploitation can include:
🚩 Someone who cannot speak freely
🚩 Another person controlling their ID, phone, money, or travel documents
🚩 Fearful, rehearsed, or inconsistent answers
🚩 Signs of abuse, exhaustion, malnourishment, or neglect
🚩 A child or teen accompanied by an unrelated controlling adult
🚩 Someone who appears constantly monitored

The most important thing you can do today?

Learn this signal.
Save this post.
Share it.

You may never need it yourself—but someone else might.

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🎥 creates and films scripted scenes that are sometimes playful and lighthearted and, at other times, intentionally direct using storytelling to raise awareness about issues including gendered double standards, gender-based violence, human trafficking, homelessness, and hunger.

Thank you for using your platform to spark conversation and awareness. 🫶

06/07/2026

Defunding women’s health data has global consequences…

Data helps us identify:

👉 where women are dying in childbirth
👉 where maternal mortality is rising
👉 where gender-based violence is increasing
👉 which communities are being left behind
👉 which diseases disproportionately affect women
(…and much more)

Gaps in information can lead to more gaps in funding, policy responses, healthcare resources, and accountability.

‼️ If this concerns you, take a few minutes to learn how women’s health, research, and gender equality programs are funded in your country.

Steps you can take:
🩷 Follow organizations that track gender data
🩷 Read reports from public health agencies
🩷 Ask elected officials about funding priorities
🩷 Support organizations working to improve women’s health and safety

Awareness matters. Accountability matters. Data matters. WOMEN MATTER.

05/31/2026

At the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Runway Show in Miami, women across ages, body types, backgrounds, and professions, including athletes, creators, celebrities, and plus-size models walked the runway together.

Some of the most talked-about moments involved:

👉 Lizzo
👉 Ilona Maher
👉 Bethenny Frankel walking at 55
👉 Plus-size model Hunter McGrady
👉 Paralympic swimmer Ali Truwit
👉 Various SI veterans, rookies, and creators.

Events like this don’t solve body image pressures overnight, but they do expand what people see and who gets represented.

And representation matters.

Not because every woman needs to be a model, but because every woman deserves to see that her worth is not determined by a number on a tag, a birthday, or how closely she matches someone else’s standard.

💫 What would have changed for you if you’d grown up seeing this?

🎥: the OG girl group chat 👏

05/30/2026

Women gathering together has never been “just talking.”

It’s connection. It’s regulation. It’s release.

Research shows that social support can help buffer the effects of stress:

When women gather, vent, laugh, cry, scream, validate each other, and say “me too,” the nervous system gets a message it rarely receives from the world ➡️ You are not alone.

Sometimes healing looks calm.

Sometimes it looks like a circle of women letting generations of swallowed anger finally leave the body.

(every woman is worthy of friendship, support, release…)

05/30/2026

What if we invested more in women? What if we made women’s issues & equality visible, well funded, and globally supported?

Welcome to Every Woman is Worthy ➡️ We’re here to do the work.

Thank you for being a part of this important journey. 🤝🩷

05/29/2026

LADIES, LET’S TALK ⬇️ (Yes, the music and movements here are intentional 😅)

You can wear the sundress, if you want.

You can be amazing at cooking. Or terrible at it.

You can have one child, five children, or none at all.

But never fall for the lie that Turning Point USA’s “women’s leadership summit” is empowerment while platforming people who oppose women’s rights and even argue women shouldn’t vote.

And never stay quiet while lawmakers in North Carolina push legislation that could create legal protection for killing a woman seeking ab**tion care.

Never ignore Afghan girls being denied education.

Never look away from women in Iran risking their lives for basic freedoms.

Never accept femicide and gender-based violence as “normal” in places like South Africa, Mexico, or anywhere else.

Never stay silent when child marriage, honor killings, or forced marriages steal girls’ futures.

Never look away from the suffering of women in 🇸🇩🇸🇸🇵🇸🇨🇩🇭🇹🇾🇪 & beyond.

We will never solve these real humanitarian issues and conflicts while people obsess over placing blame for the world’s problems on the very women working the hardest for human rights across every continent.

Never excuse racism, misogyny, or extremism because it comes wrapped in patriotism, religion, culture, or “tradition.”

Racism is still rampant.

Women’s rights are still under attack.

And stripping women of freedom while calling it “traditional values” is still oppression.

05/28/2026

Women are the revolution. 💫

05/28/2026

🇺🇸 As a social impact startup, we’re already accustomed to standing by ethics when it’s risky or means slower growth. It’s time for corporations to do the same and recommit to standing against racist gerrymandering as they have done in the past. Send a letter to call for their courage in this moment: https://democracyactioncenter.org/CEOcourage?

Send a one-click message to Business Roundtable and major corporate CEOs urging them to oppose voter suppression and gerrymandering.