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Third Wave Fund offers grant-making and donor mobilizing to advance the community power, well-being, and self-determination of young Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC) most directly impacted by and best positioned to end gender oppression.

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Resourcing Resistance

Resourcing Resistance is Third Wave Fund’s podcast weaving together voices from across our gender justice movements in the spirit of radical and honest storytelling. We smash silos, build bridges, and welcome listeners in to reflect on their role in the struggle for liberation.

Stay Tuned for New Episodes Coming Fall 2026!

Each episode features conversations with organizers and activists on strategies and visions of a world beyond philanthropy—while tracing the shifts, needs, and possibilities shaping our movements today. Whether you are a funder reimagining your impact, a donor seeking deeper connection, or an organizer dreaming of new futures, Resourcing Resistance is building a blueprint for you.

Episodes

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Art As A Weapon & Way Through

Art is not an accessory to movement– it propels the movement forward and grows it. A conversation with Third Wave Fund’s first artist-in-residence, Chi Nwosu and Monica Trinidad — our Director of Communications — this episode explores how cultural work shapes political possibility. From storytelling to visual practice, we examine why all art is political, how artists expand what we can imagine, and why resourcing cultural work and radical imagining is essential to building liberated futures.

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Art As A Weapon & Way Through

Art is not an accessory to movement– it propels the movement forward and grows it. A conversation with Third Wave Fund’s first artist-in-residence, Chi Nwosu and Monica Trinidad — our Director of Communications — this episode explores how cultural work shapes political possibility. From storytelling to visual practice, we examine why all art is political, how artists expand what we can imagine, and why resourcing cultural work and radical imagining is essential to building liberated futures.

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Past Episodes

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The Power of Shared Leadership

New leadership is constantly emerging in organizations —how can we find ways to celebrate, honor, and document important stories of shared leadership and healthy transitions? As our current Co-Directors, Ana Conner and Kiyomi Fujikawa, prepare to transition out of their roles in early 2024 and two new leaders join us, we’re reflecting on a long lineage of transformative leadership that has shaped and guided our organization over the years. 

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Transforming Our Relationships with Conflict & Accountability

Conflict is inevitable–so how do we fortify our relationship to it? What approaches to conflict can we take when it shows up in our organizations and communities? What are some ways philanthropy can strengthen its support for organizations leading transformative justice work?

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Centering Sex Worker Leadership & Liberation

Why are sex workers uniquely positioned to lead reproductive justice efforts? In what ways can philanthropy shift to better bolster and sustain sex worker-led organizing?

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Centering Sex Worker Leadership & Liberation

What is sex-worker led organizing, and why is it important to center sex workers in gender justice organizing?

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Making It Through an Economic Crisis

Did you know that Third Wave Fund almost completely shut down during the 2008 economic recession? How did Third Wave make it through? More importantly, who helped us to thrive and exist as the feminist community fund we are today?

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Healing Justice as Cultural Organizing

What is the glue that binds our resistance work? How does healing justice fit into our resistance for the long haul? We sat down with Kifu Faruq of Fireweed Collective to discuss healing justice as a foundational part of organizing and activism work.

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The Value of Leadership Transitions

Transitions in organizational leadership always get a bad wrap, but are they truly moments of crisis, or critical opportunities for growth and transformation?

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Disruption, Healing Justice, & the Power of Autonomous Spaces

Our 2nd episode comes to you live from the Allied Media Conference in Detroit, MI! We sat down with Phoenix-based organizers, Xyra and Crystal of Trans Queer Pueblo, an autonomous LGBTQ+ migrant community of color who work to generate community power for liberation.

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Abolishing Police and ICE and the Myth of Separate Movements

In this inaugural episode, we chat with LA-based organizer Yessica Gonzalez of Immigrant Youth Coalition, and Chicago-based organizer Hannah Baptiste of Assata’s Daughters.