Our 50th Birthday!
2025 is Auckland Women’s Centre’s 50th birthday! Yes, we’ve been crashing several waves of feminism into patriarchal monuments for half a century now, from 1975. Rā whānau ki a tatou! Turning 50 feels good. It feels big. It feels like something to celebrate – with a whole festival season of 50th birthday events:
Next up! Community kōrero: 50 years of Feminism, Womanism and Mana Wahine
Come join Stacey Morrison in kōrero with special guest stars Naomi Simmonds (Raukawa), Melani Anae and Dame Judy McGregor on the last 50 years of activism for women everywhere. What have we gained? What have we lost?
[more info & tickets]
This page will be updated with 50th birthday event details as they come to hand – and they’ll also be in our newsletters (sign-up at the end of the page)
You can also help kick-off our next 50 years of feminist action by joining the Fab 500!
We survived disco! And bean sprouts! And Rogernomics and stolen answerphones and uninsulated villas … we’ve welcomed homosexual law reform and the Cartwright Inquiry and the #MeToo movement and abortion law reform – we’ve also supported Pūtiki protection and pay equity (and continue to do so!) – and we’ve hosted hundreds of speakers, including Margaret Mutu and Alison Bechdel and Clementine Ford. We pioneered telephone counselling several decades ago and spun-off a programme for teenage mums in the 2000s that has become the mighty E Tipu E Rea Whānau Services…
It is A LOT.
It’s a legacy to be proud of, and a legacy that we’re proud to continue – we’re still here, making a difference – thanks to you!
Thank you so much for being part of our community today – whether that’s online only or includes coming to our kōrero, film nights, Feminists Are Funny, Rainbow games nights, sole mums group, arts classes, self-defence classes and/or counselling – or using Women’s Support or being part of AVA, Intersectional Feminist Club and/or our campaigns like stalking law reform….
We’re all here together, and we care – and we’re loud! Come join the celebrations!
