Where courage meets collective action
Join the movement to end gender-based violence through collective self-defense, solidarity, and real-time intervention. Inspired by bonobos. Led by us.
Sisterhood is our superpower
The Bonobo Sisterhood Alliance is a global movement rooted in the radical idea that we can end gender-based violence—together. Inspired by the female bonobo primates’ model of collective protection, we empower individuals and communities to interrupt harm in real time, build safer spaces through sisterhood, solidarity, and action.
Diane Rosenfeld explains the Bonobo Sisterhood Alliance
Heed the call. Protect your sister.
Join the movement
Step into your power and help build a world where harm is interrupted, not ignored. Together, we are transforming fear into fierce collective action.
Read the Book
Discover the ideas that launched a movement. The Bonobo Sisterhood, Revolution Through Female Alliance by Diane Rosenfeld, lays out a bold, actionable vision for ending gender-based violence through collective self-defense and community power.
Donate
Help us turn ideas into action. Your donation directly supports workshops, educational tools, and the growing movement to end gender-based violence through solidarity and self-defense.
Events
July Bonobo Sisterhood Community Conversations
Weaving Strength: Self-Defense, Community and Collective Power
Monday July 20 at 5pm EST
Zoom Registration
What does it mean to build strength not just as individuals, but together?
Join Diane Rosenfeld in conversation with Nancy Lanoue, founder and head instructor emerita of Thousand Waves Martial Arts & Self-Defense Center in Chicago. A 7th-degree black belt and longtime Empowerment Self-Defense educator, Nancy has spent decades using martial arts and ESD to foster healing, empowerment, peacemaking and community.
Nancy and Diane will talk about the evolution of Empowerment Self-Defense and how knowing that we have selves worth defending transforms how we move through the world. We are excited to share about the upcoming NWMAF Weaving Strength Conference in Chicago July 24 - 26 at Thousand Waves, where Diane and Nancy will be part of a great line up of instructors.
Nancy Lanoue, founder of Thousand Waves Martial Arts & Self-Defense Center, Chicago
