FREE Self-Defense Workshop Series ✨🥋

Join us for Feel Good Fridays with South Queens Women’s March + Malikah! 💛
Learn how to protect yourself, build confidence, and strengthen community power 💪🏽🌸

📅 Upcoming Sessions:
* Sept 12: Safety in Our Communities & Self Defense Frameworks
* Oct 17: Situational Awareness + Intro to Grabs
* Nov 14: Grabs, Weak Points & Strikes
* Dec 5: Bystander Intervention
🕠 5:30 PM – 7:00 PM
📍 Yogashakti Yoga Studio, 114-41 Lefferts Blvd, South Ozone Park, NY

✨ Register now: tinyurl.com/sqwmfeelgood

Let’s step into our power together. 🌟 #OurVoiceOurPower#SQWM #Malikah #SelfDefense

ReRooting: Environmental Activism & Ancestral Pride for Indo-Caribbeans ✨🌱

We’re so excited to welcome Anusuya Singh back to Queens for a workshop that blends history, culture, and community power. 💖

📅 Sunday, August 31st


🕕 6–7:30 PM


📍 South Queens Women’s March Office 
(130-01 Liberty Ave, Unit 1R, Jamaica, NY 11419)

Together we’ll:
🌿 Connect with our agricultural roots and ancestral practices
🌿 Unpack how colonialism exploited this knowledge
🌿 Imagine small but meaningful steps we can take today for our families & communities

This event is free & open to all 💫 Please RSVP for food purposes.
#SQWM #IndoCaribbean #EnvironmentalJustice#CommunityBuilding #Queens

We are thrilled to announce our Pop-Up Pantry & Voter Festival happening on Saturday, August 30 at the SQWM office!

🎉 Come out to support an amazing, inclusive, and fun event — and stock up while you’re here!

We’ll be giving away free groceries, school supplies, books, period supplies, voter resources, domestic violence resources, and more 📚🛒✨ Plus, enjoy music by DJ Keshan 🎶

📌 Please note: children must be present to receive school supplies.

The Art Committee, along with our Youth & Development Committee are partnering up for the remainder of the year to create an art healing series for our youth. Those interested in attending may register for as many sessions as they’d like. The first session is this week Saturday. Follow the link or QR code to register now!

VOICES AND VIBES: Navigating the Now

This Thursday, August 7th from 6–8PM, join us at our office for an important community conversation around today’s political climate.

Let’s come together to reflect on current events and explore how we can support each other through mutual aid, civic engagement, and grassroots organizing.

A safe space to unpack, connect, and build together.
 Light refreshments provided.

#SouthQueensWomensMarch #VoicesAndVibes #CommunityConversation #MutualAid #CivicEngagement #QueensEvents #PoliticalDialogue

Join us next week as we partner with two significant organizations in the NYC community - Sadhana Coaltion and Bhuvaneshwar Mandir! These two groups mobilize youth to help agents of change and empowerment. Sign up to volunteer 🙏🏽

Meet at red brick pavillion in North Channel parking lot, south of Joseph P. Addabbo Memorial Bridge (Cross BayNorth Channel Bridge) on west side of Cross Bay Boulevard. GPS search for "Crossbay Kiteboarding Launch Area".There is an overflow parking lot on the east side of the boulevard.

Gloves, garbage bags and pickers will be provided along with a light lunch. Please dress for the weather and wear closed toe shoes. Bring a bottle of water.

Verification letters will be provided for those who need to certify volunteer hours for school or community purposes.

South Queens Women’s March, is an organization that exists to promote women’s empowerment and gender equity, however we recognize that a truly liberated and safe community requires ALL of us. To that end, we are bringing back our mental health initiative which begun last year, except this time around the focus will shift. While the workshops are open to all, special emphasis will be placed on the healing and wellness of men and boys. Over the last several years, our community has been rattled by various painful losses of young men. Countless others struggle in silence without healthy coping tools. We must do something and it must be done now.

Our workshops will be facilitated by culturally responsive mental health professionals and advocates. We will provide a delicious lunch and a certificate of completion for every workshop. To register, please visit http://tinyurl.com/sqwmentalhealth2025 - spots are limited due to seating capacity!

The hardest part of this effort is going to be ensuring people show up. Mental health is still taboo. Please help us spread the word.

#mentalhealthawarenessmonth #mensmentalhealthmatters#mensmentalhealthsupport

South Queens Women’s March, is an organization that exists to promote women’s empowerment and gender equity, however we recognize that a truly liberated and safe community requires ALL of us. To that end, we are bringing back our mental health initiative which begun last year, except this time around the focus will shift. While the workshops are open to all, special emphasis will be placed on the healing and wellness of men and boys. Over the last several years, our community has been rattled by various painful losses of young men. Countless others struggle in silence without healthy coping tools. We must do something and it must be done now.

Our workshops will be facilitated by culturally responsive mental health professionals and advocates. We will provide a delicious lunch and a certificate of completion for every workshop. To register, please visit http://tinyurl.com/sqwmentalhealth2025 - spots are limited due to seating capacity!

The hardest part of this effort is going to be ensuring people show up. Mental health is still taboo. Please help us spread the word.

#mentalhealthawarenessmonth #mensmentalhealthmatters#mensmentalhealthsupport

On June 28, please join South Queens Women’s March as we host our third workshop in our mental health series! The workshop will focus on EMOTIONAL MASTERY: CULTIVATING EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE IN MEN. We are so grateful to partner with the BRO Support Group and @p.o.o.j.a._boys for this workshop! To register visit tinyurl.com/sqwmentalhealth2025. We will be providing a free lunch, a $10 gift card (for those over 12 years old)and a certificate of completion for attendance at the workshop. Spots are limited. In an effort to ensure that our programming is culturally responsive, this workshop will be facilitated by Rabin Bhagwandas, a licensed mental health professional who is also Indo-Caribbean.

Note: While this training is designed with boys snd men’s needs in mind, anyone can attend. Sometimes it takes a friend or loved one to educate themselves and support the one you care for to get the help they desperately need.

On June 21, join South Queens Women’s March in partnership with the Yogashakti Yoga Studio and DBGM @dbgm_inc as we host our second workshop in our second annual mental health series! The workshop will be a shortened version of the Mental Health First Aid training tailored for immigrant communities like ours. To register visit tinyurl.com/sqwmentalhealth2025. We will be providing a free lunch, a $10 gift card and a certificate of completion for attendance at the workshop. The training will be facilitated by Antoine Craigwell, a mental health advocate who is a certified National Mental Health First Aid Instructor and was a member of the New York State Suicide Prevention Task Force.

Note: While this training is designed with men’s needs in mind, anyone can attend. We strongly encourage youth to be there. Sometimes it takes a friend or loved one to educate themselves and support the one you care for to get the help they desperately need.

This workshop is co-sponsored by Brothers Reach Out, @caribbeanequalityproject, @sadhanahindus, and the United Madrassi Association.

We are thrilled to announce that we will be partnering with @hindusforhumanrights @nycchr@sikhcoalition and the Office of Prevention of Hate Crimes to host our pop up pantry and voter festival at Phil Rizzuto Park this weekend! Come out to support an amazing inclusive and fun event and also partake in our pantry! We will be distributing free groceries, period supplies, voter resources, domestic violence resources and more!

Lots of voters are excited about the upcoming primary election, featuring candidates for NYC Mayor, Public Advocate, Comptroller, and City Council but they are having a hard time understanding what ranked choice voting is. In efforts to destigmatize this way of voting please register to attend via the link in bio! We are aiming to encourage more youth to get involved in civic engagement and as such are giving away $10 gift cards to youth aged 16-24 who register and attend. Join us!

Please join South Queens Women’s March as we host our first workshop in our mental health series! The workshop will focus on Breaking the Silence: Destigmatizing Mental Health Among Men. To register visit tinyurl.com/sqwmentalhealth2025. We will be providing a free lunch, a $10 gift card and a certificate of completion for attendance at the workshop. Spots are limited.

Note: While this training is designed with men’s needs in mind, anyone can attend. Sometimes it takes a friend or loved one to educate themselves and support the one you care for to get the help they desperately need.

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We are co-hosting with @drumnyc a community safety training! Join us, along with our collaborators at @southqueenswomensmarch, in Richmond Hill on May 23rd from 5pm to 7pm. Learn about strategies to help keep you and your neighbors safe.

📣Join us for a New York City Council District 28 Candidate Forum to hear from candidates running to represent the diverse neighborhoods of Jamaica, Richmond Hill, Rochdale Village, and South Ozone Park.

🗓Thursday, May 22, 2025
⏰6 PM to 8 PM
📍Liberty Palace: 130-11 Liberty Ave, Richmond Hill, NY 11419
📲🔗RSVP here: https://bit.ly/2025CD28Forum

All the Candidates have been confirmed:
Ty Hankerson, @tyhankerson
Japneet Singh, @japneetsinghforny
Latoya LeGrand, @legrandforthepeople
Romeo Hitlall, @romeohitlall
Ruben W. Wills, @rubenwills_

If you need language assistance, we will provide interpretation in Punjabi & Bengali based on need. Please RSVP by Monday, May 19th.

Democracy and the future of our communities are in your hands. Hear directly from the candidates on how they plan to improve our neighborhoods and the quality of our lives. 

This Candidate Forum is being organized by @apavoicenewyorkmembers @caribbeanequalityproject and @southqueenswomensmarch in partnership with
@we.are.jahajee, @jamaicaqnsnaacp @drumnyc,
@minkwoncenter and @chhayacdc!

Join us this Sunday at our office for a free prom clothing giveaway! We will be distributing on a first come first served basis. A fitting area will be provided.

Join us for our second session in our chai and chat series! We will be centering sexual assault awareness month and collectively participating in the Clothesline Project. Register via the link in our bio or at tinyurl.com/sqwmsaam - spots are limited! Please note this event is for women and girls only.

The Clothesline Project is a visual display of shirts with graphic messages and illustrations designed by survivors of violence or by someone who knows a person who has been impacted by violence. The purpose of the project is to raise awareness about the issue of sexual assault, to uplift survivors’ stories and to provide a mechanism to break the silence that often surrounds these experiences.

#saam #sexualassaultawarenessmonth #clotheslineproject

Let’s play Phagwah/Holi with our kids, celebrate Eid and honor sheroes!

RSVP Required!

April is Earth Month and in commemoration we are holding our first cleanup of the season with our partners Sadhana Hindus and colleagues at Gateway National Recreation Area! To volunteer visit: tinyurl.com/projectprithvivolunteer and let’s promote seva at the grassroots level while also advocating for climate justice!

South Queens Women’s March @southqueenswomensmarch in collaboration with Malikah @wearemalikah is proud to present an in-person self-defense class on March 28 at 5:30pm as part of our Feel Good Friday series! We are holding this training to combat gender-based violence and sexual harassment in our community. Space is limited so register via the link in our bio. The workshop will be followed by a community Iftar and is open to only women and girls.

With every self defense technique, we deconstruct the notion that our bodies are not our own. With every movement we begin a healing process with our bodies, one where we finally have full control over our security and space. We recognize that every woman comes into classes with varying experiences and expressions of womanhood. We affirm the diversity of our community of women and gender expansive folks and recognize that we are all on unique journeys. For some, self-defense may be a tool for healing and connection with our source of power and body. For others, we are motivated to be trained in self defense because it will ultimately be a tool for self preservation. Whatever the case may be, as you train yourself and others, the Malikah space is meant to be affirming for every part of your experience.

✨ Level Up Your Application! ✨

Your personal statement is your chance to shine—make it count! Join us for a FREE workshop where you’ll learn how to craft a compelling essay that stands out. 🚀

📅 March 26

🕒 6:30 PM

📍 Zoom

🔎 Perfect for high school students, college students & adult learners applying to college or transfer programs!

✅ Tips from experts

✅ Insider insights from admissions committees

✅ Strategies to make your essay unforgettable

#CollegeApps #PersonalStatement #EssayTips #LevelUp #SQWM

🌟 Exciting News! 🌟

We are thrilled to announce our partnership with Northwell Health! 🏥💙

Join us next week for our Heart Health and Healing event! 💖

This event is designed for youth, but families are more than welcome to join! We’ll have heart-themed activities 🎨💪, plus Northwell staff on hand to support you in any career-related endeavors! 🩺👩‍⚕️👨‍⚕️

🔹 Date: February 19th

🔹 Location: SQWM Office Space

🔹 Cost: Free (but registration is required!)

💥 Don’t miss out on this chance to learn, grow, and have fun while staying heart-healthy!

✨ Register Now! Link with this link: http://tinyurl.com/sqwmxnorthwell

#HeartHealth #Healing #YouthEvent #FamilyFriendly #NorthwellHealth #CareerSupport #CommunityEvent #HeartAwareness #HealthAndHealing