Making Our Legacy Matter

On International Women's Day 2026, we hosted "Making Our Legacy Matter," a feminist tea party at Suffolk University in Boston. An enthusiastic, intergenerational community of feminists filled the room, eager to listen to the fantastic speakers and to engage in conversation with one another.

The event honored Our Bodies Ourselves co-founder Paula Doress-Worters (1938-2026) for her lifelong work to make a more just world.

Program
Our Bodies Ourselves executive director, Amy Agigian, welcomes the attendees

(3:38) Our Bodies Ourselves co-founder Judy Norsigian leads "Building the Women’s Health Movement," a conversation with women’s health icons Byllye Avery (Black Women's Health Imperative) and Cindy Pearson (National Women's Health Network)

(55:26) Hannah Doress reflects on the legacy of her mother, Paula Doress-Worters

(59:40) Grace Koch shares how Our Bodies Ourselves keeps "Crossing Generations" including video remarks from our current student workers, volunteers, and interns

(1:10:53) Diana Namumbejja Abwoye speaks about her work in global women's health in the keynote, "Beyond Borders"

(1:40:20) Our Bodies Ourselves executive director, Amy Agigian, offers closing remarks

Our Bodies Ourselves remains resolute in advancing health, sexual autonomy, and reproductive justice for women and gender-expansive people everywhere. Together we will carry forward our powerful legacy, in a world that still thirsts for it.