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title: "Advice for Today's Activists"
date: 2025-08-05T15:49:00-04:00
author: Laura Prieto
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[Media Coverage](/media-coverage)# Advice for Today's Activists

By Naomi Darom and Judy Norsigian • The Gender Nerd • August 1, 2025

![Founders-now-and-then](data:image/png;base64,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)Photo of some of the founders of Our Bodies Ourselves in 2018. Back row, from l to r: Jane Pincus, Vilunya Diskin, Joan Ditzion. Front row: Norma Swenson and Judy Norsigian 

In this interview, journalist Naomi Darom, Ph.D., asks Our Bodies Ourselves co-founder, [Judy Norsigian](https://ourbodiesourselves.org/people/judy-norsigian), to share advice for today's feminist activists, drawn from her experience revolutionizing global women's health.

> **Don't try to do something alone. There's more power in collective action.** We were committed to that and it took many forms . . .
> 
> **You never produce meaningful change just from the top down.** You always have to keep the dialogue going with people in power, but also create \[your own\] base of political power, \[with\] people who would be clamoring for the same kind of change. If you don’t have a base of power, you can’t be effective with leaders who don’t want to change anything.

[Read the full article ](https://substack.com/home/post/p-169855728)

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