Our Founding Story

In 2015, the European Women’s Lobby organized a feminist summer school that turned out to be the fertile ground for the emergence of new young feminist visions. The idea of Young Feminist Europe was born. 

In 2018, our four co-founders aligned their skills and passions (advocacy, storytelling, social media engagement and organizational management) and came together to launch YFE. Initially, our main project was the Writer’s Hub, an online platform allowing young feminist voices to be published and shared. 

Our founding was an organic, spontaneous and authentic endeavor, with in the background, a global landscape mobilizing on issues of gender equality. 

The Sustainable Development Goals were only three years old, and the Beijing +20 agenda was starting to be shaped by global stakeholders.

We were motivated by one thing and one thing only: how to get young feminist voices heard in an online landscape that still silenced and invisibilized them.

We chose a no-strings-attached model, choosing to not register officially as a non-profit. Truth be told, we lacked the experience to even start such a process, but were also eager to continuing working as we wished, without having to mold our collective into the more rigid structures of official non-for-profits. We struggled to see how such a move would positively impact our work…

Young Feminist Europe was launched as a non-affiliated and non-registered group, and it remains as such until this day.