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Athena Project’s Digital Campaigns

Connect with Athena’s family of artists, funders and fans! Our digital campaigns across all social media platforms invite you to join community conversations about current issues for women and other underrepresented genders.

Simply follow us on Instagram, Facebook, or LinkedIn, where you can contribute to each Athena digital campaign with likes, comments, re-shares – and even your own shares of stories or art (see regular calls for submissions on social media). At all times, we seek nominations of your favorite women artists for our weekly #WomenCrushWednesday posts HERE. Plus, our #ReproductiveJustice campaign welcomes visual art related to this topic year-round – submit HERE.

For a deeper dive into campaign-related articles and podcasts, check out Athena’s Our Voices blog.

We look forward to connecting with you!

For a deeper dive into all our campaign-related articles and podcasts, we invite you to check out Athena’s Our Voices blog.

Our Voices Blog
At all times, we seek nominations of your favorite women artists for our weekly #WomenCrushWednesday posts.
Nominate Artist
Plus, our #ReproductiveJustice campaign welcomes visual and other art as well as personal stories related to this topic year-round.
Submit Visual Art

#ArtHeals

Read arresting stories of how #ArtHeals from Athena’s 2024 and 2025 campaigns and share your own anytime! We at Athena believe that art supports the healing of bodies, minds and communities. It also creates empathy – which we desperately need when change in our conflicted country is so very slow in coming.
Our 2025 theme was Invisible Disabilities. We explored stories about how artists create despite their invisible conditions and how art itself offers relief and empowerment.

We look forward to your healing-related stories and artwork for sharing. And we appreciate your likes, comments and re-shares at all times.

Submit Story of Healing

#WomenCrushWednesday

Who’s your woman artist crush?

We want to know! Because we share a crush every week to uplift women artists, especially those with intersectional identities.

Over time, it’s become clear to us just how much these unique creators contribute to Athena and the fabric of women’s artistry as a whole. Which is why we make them visible through hashtags such as: #QueerArtists, #ArtistsofColor, #NativeArtists, #ArtistswithDisabilities and more – striving to normalize diversity one post at a time.

Nominate An Artist

#ArtsEquity

Women and ALL underrepresented genders deserve equitable pay! Share our posts and spread the word:

Our #EqualPayDay posts on social media highlight what percentage of a white cis man’s dollar the average woman of any specific group, e.g. a Latina, earns in the same amount of time. In 2024, the gender pay gap in the U.S. remained at 83 cents, meaning that women in total earned 17% less than men. Sadly, the gap was much wider for Latinas, women of color and women with other intersectional identities.

We always post on the very day when a specific group catches up with the white man’s earnings from the previous year. The later in the year you see the post, the less that group is receiving for their labor – and the longer they must work to catch up. Which of course they (we) never do!

To learn more, check out #ArtsEquity articles and podcasts on Athena’s Our Voices blog – and discover why and how Athena books equitably paid work for women artists of intersectional identities.

Speaking of women artists, you think you know a thing or two about the visual arts market? You can still take our Arts Equity Trivia, which ran in March 2025, and probe into your own unconscious bias when it comes to gender in the visual arts. We bet you’ll be surprised!

Take Trivia
SHOUTOUT TO ARTISTS: If you work professionally as an artist, we’d love you to fill out our #ArtsEquity Survey about the socio-economic conditions within which you create. This data will help us understand exactly where artists are when it comes to pay equity.
Take Artist Survey

#ReproductiveJustice

Reproductive rights are human rights!

If you agree, consider sharing your artwork and/or personal stories regarding #ReproductiveJustice with us. Because we need to be the ones making decisions about our own bodies AND we need to own the narrative of what that should look like.
Read more about our #ReproductiveJustice definition and about the movement’s intersectional roots on Athena’s Our Voices blog.
Our Definition of #ReproductiveJustice

Defining #ReproductiveJustice

#ReproductiveJustice means we ensure that ALL humans have the resources and freedom to make informed decisions about their reproductive lives and receive adequate care, regardless of race, gender identity, sexual orientation, economic status, and disability.

Reproductive rights are human rights.

Athena Project understands the concept of #ReproductiveJustice as rooted in the demand for universal reproductive rights for ALL human beings:

  • The right to have a child
  • The right NOT to have a child
  • The right to raise children in safe and healthy environments
  • The right to self-determine any reproductive procedures
  • The right to self-determine one’s gender identity

Athena Project wishes to emphasize that these rights can only be exercised if safe, non-discriminatory access to reproductive services is achieved:

  • Access to comprehensive and inclusive sex education
  • Access to contraception
  • Access to comprehensive, fact-based information regarding all reproductive procedures
  • Access to nondiscriminatory mental health care
  • Access to safe abortions
  • Access to gender-affirming care
  • Access to compassionate, consent-based care for all stages of pregnancy, birthing and postpartum
  • Access to safe and healthy environments for child-raising
  • Access to quality education and a humane and living wage
When using the term #ReproductiveJustice, Athena Project honors the groundbreaking work done in 1994 by the Women of African Descent for Reproductive Justice initiative who first used it to emphasize the importance of social justice in reproductive rights work.

We recognize that people of color, LGBTQ+ communities, poor people, and people with disabilities have historically been disproportionately and systemically deprived of access to such resources. We therefore acknowledge that #ReproductiveJustice can only be achieved at the intersection of social, political, and economic change.

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Athena Project invites your valuable contributions:

Periodically, we publish your #ReproductiveJustice artworks and personal stories during focused pop-up campaigns across all our channels: social media, blog posts, newsletters.

Year-round, we share a piece of #ReproductiveJustice art on social media every Tuesday. Find all posts by searching the hashtag #ReproductiveJustice. Follow, like and share to show you care!

Athena specifically invites artwork and stories relating to the intersectional nature of #ReproductiveJustice and the additional barriers marginalized communities experience. We look for art/stories addressing the rights and access demands in our definition above, such as sex education, birth control, safe abortions, gender-affirming care and consent-based pregnancy/birthing/postpartum care as well as informed autonomy over all reproductive procedures, including sterilization.
Express your experience of #ReproductiveJustice. Because YOUR voice matters.
Share Your Story or Art

DISCLAIMER

All our social media campaigns and online shares are rooted in a commitment to human rights, arts equity, healing through art and the mission of amplifying the voices of women, trans and nonbinary artists. Political opinions contained or implied in any posts or comments contributed by third parties are the views of the individual or organization who is sharing and do not necessarily represent Athena’s views. Please visit our Accountability in Action page to learn more about Athena’s stances regarding relevant socio-political events of our time.
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