What to Expect

In partnership with 4Seas for International Women's Day week, this Wednesday's discussion was developed with input from the women who regularly show up and make QTM what it is.

The official narrative says progress on women's rights moves in a straight line. History says otherwise. Rights get won, then quietly dismantled. Protections get passed, then selectively enforced.
Movements get co-opted and sold back to us as corporate "empowerment."
The landscape is shifting fast. In the US, reproductive rights were reversed overnight. Birth rates are plummeting as women engage in quiet, radical boycotts of traditional systems. AI hiring tools encode old biases. Deepfake pornography weaponizes women's images with virtually no legal consequence. The World Bank reports women still enjoy only 64% of the legal rights of men globally — before factoring in cultural enforcement.
Tonight we ask:

Is progress on women's rights fundamentally fragile?

Are we fighting new battles, or just fighting our grandmothers' battles with new technology?

Every gender is welcome. But tonight, we ask that women's voices lead.
Questions for the night:

How much daily energy do you spend calibrating how you speak so you won't be dismissed or labeled?

Name a right or protection you assumed was permanent that now feels fragile. What made you think it was settled?

Does "Girl Boss" feminism evolve the movement — or hollow it out?

Is the birth strike the only leverage powerful enough to force real change?
What were you told — explicitly or implicitly — that women are or aren't? Do you still believe it?

Are we about to hard-code 1950s gender bias into 2030s technology?

See you Wednesday, 6–8pm at 4seas Nimman. Please support the venue by purchasing a drink or snack.