Our projects
Our first Call for Proposals, published in September 2024, supported 25 organizations and 32 informal grassroots groups. SEMIA prioritized women-led initiatives based on collective action, activism, and women's empowerment, with a focus on underrepresented contexts and the promotion of structural change.
The selected projects focus on key issues such as sexual and reproductive rights, gender-based violence, economic justice, youth and education, the inclusion of marginalized communities, culture, and sport.
Tracanelupa
Swipe APS
Lìberas
Per Ananke
Venus Urban Art
Officina Femminista
Prime Minister
Obiezione Respinta
Factorya
Ziwanda
Ziwanda is an inclusive and intergenerational group, open to cultural, sexual, and orientation diversity. It is committed to understanding the needs of others and building a non-exclusionary world, opposing patriarchal patterns and oppressive socioeconomic systems. Its core values are cultural pluralism, education, outreach, intersectionality, and patriarchal deconstruction.
WiMIT – Women in Mobility Infrastructure and Transport
WiMIT's mission is to create a society where women have full access and equal opportunities for professional growth in the mobility, infrastructure, and transportation sectors. Its specific objectives are to increase women's participation, reduce the gender wage gap, and promote fair and inclusive work environments that value women's contributions. Through these actions, the collective aims to profoundly transform the sector, ensuring a more equitable and prosperous future for all.
UFFFF – Utopia [Fun Food Future] Factory
UFFFF's mission is queer utopia: an unattainable horizon that drives it to continually challenge dominant social norms. It experiments with culture, art, and sustainability, reimagining contemporaneity. Fun, food, and the future are its political acts. It believes in an intersectionality experienced in everyday life, where the personal becomes political. UFFFF creates, organizes, and invents dinners, provocations, rituals, spaces, parties, and protests. "Destroy-preserve-live" is its radical response to a system that wants us to be normative. Its members act together, creating queer communities, here and now!
The Glorious Mothers
The Glorious Mothers addresses the issue of parenthood in the visual arts. Through political and artistic work, the group seeks to give voice to those who identify as primarily responsible for caring for their children, bringing the topic of parenthood to the attention of artistic institutions. Through theoretical and practical research, they work to deconstruct the stereotypical imagery of motherhood, historically linked to the heteronormative family institution, making visible the multiple ways of being a parent.
Tech4Fem
Tech4Ferm is the first Italian community dedicated to FemTech. It aims to bring women's health back to the center of social debate by mapping FemTech organizations in Italy, engaging them in events and initiatives, and creating a virtual community. This is a free, open, and safe space where anyone whose health is at risk from discrimination can learn, discuss, train, and take action. Furthermore, it aims to support female entrepreneurship in FemTech and build valuable international networks.
Sovversivə
Sovversivə began as a festival and is now a movement that celebrates diversity and challenges dominant norms and narratives. Its goal is to create a safe space to foster personal and collective growth, offering a platform for discussion, listening, and acceptance for marginalized people. It is an invitation to unite, support, and fight together so that every individual can live freely, authentically, and fully recognized. Sovversivə is a community that imagines and builds an inclusive future, without labels and free from all forms of discrimination.
Sboccat3
Sboccat3 was born from the need to carve out a space for itself within our community, responding to a provincial context that is often exclusionary for many LGBTQIA+ people. Its goals are to offer opportunities for discussion and discussion on issues relevant to the LGBTQIA+ community and to promote outreach activities open to the public, addressing intersectionality. Sboccat3 addresses issues related to gender discrimination, racialization, fetishization, disability, and queer culture.
Rete Oltre la 194
The Beyond 194 Network aims to be a citizen observatory and a network of individuals and associations active in the field of reproductive justice from a transfeminist perspective. "Beyond 194" because they believe that Law 194 is a starting point, not a finishing line: to guarantee true self-determination for people with a uterus, it is necessary to go further.
Purple Square
Purple Square is a vibrant community, both virtual and physical, and a movement born in the spirit of Michela Murgia. She inspires her to continue educating herself, organizing, and making her voice heard: because, as she taught her, remaining silent is no longer an option. They share a deep respect for her and a desire to continue the legacy of her words and her struggles, preserving their cultural and political legacy. She believes, like her, that "everything is political" and that intersectional feminism is a daily, collective, and radical practice. She carries this vision forward by remaining united, never stepping down from the step on which women climbed together.