**IT’S OUR SECOND ANNIVERSARY!**

Dear WR fam, Women Rise is officially two years old!!! ✨

We can’t believe how far we’ve come. From our first five followers (which we are still so proud of!) to selling out the Women Rise art collection. From talking in our living room about maybe launching an art collection to talking on stage and representing WR at global events including Instagram Creator Week at Tate to Veecon and SXSW! Along the way we’ve worked with INCREDIBLE partners, been part of amazing initiatives, worked with organisations we’ve dreamt about working with and have some of the best community members that anyone can ever meet! The impact, the conversations, the art, it’s all with us! 

We have continued to make an impact, with partnerships, with our storytelling platform #qissa and with our VR educational initiative, BackpackX. 📚✏️

We wanted to take this opportunity to thank you, our amazing community, for your continued support over the last two years. **We seriously couldn’t have done it without you!** We hope you will stay with us as we continue to progress with our mission of championing social justice, celebrating women and girls and campaigning for girls’ education!

We have been through so much together and to celebrate it all, we have put together a video highlighting some of our favourite moments. I hope you enjoy watching it and reliving the moments of joy, impact and importance with us all.☀️

We’re SO incredibly grateful right now! @everyone ☀️🎊

We have created a video for you to celebrate it all! ✨🥰 https://x.com/womenrisenft/status/1728812847910838617?s=46&t=VYjAI7IbxxrEK4xbSmEnFQ

Thank you 🙏🏽

**Digital postcard from Pakistan! 🇵🇰**

It’s good to be back home after so long and especially for the work we are here to carry out. 🎨 📚 

We spent the past few days with some amazing students in the city of Karachi at Zindagi Trust schools. This is a part of the Women Rise education initiative called BackpackX . The response we have received from students, teachers, and overall school’s staff that got to experience the BackPackX VR Curriculum has been extremely positive and heartwarming. A huge shoutout to the teams involved and to @​Aski | Women Rise Team   for leading it so beautifully! 

Our current curriculum is focused on Climate Change and as many of you may know, Pakistan was hit by some of the worst floods in history just last year where one-third of the country was under water and over 30 million people were impacted across the country. 🍃 🌎 

Most of the students and educators we have worked with had never experienced VR before and they were overjoyed with the VR experience while also sharing that they found the subject matter to be extremely insightful and captivating.

Though everything that we do at Women Rise is close to our heart, this initiative is most special because we have launched this in our home country of Pakistan. With each activation, we try to do something different and more impactful than before. As some of you may remember, earlier this year we worked with Girls Who Code to create an incredible art studio in collaboration with Synchrony Bank during GWC’s code fair. As we are about to reach our 2nd anniversary and the end of 2023 approaching, we will continue to campaign for girls’ education creatively while also collaborating with amazing students, educators, and communities.

Thank you and so much more is coming 

✨✏️ 📚 🌍 🌱  @everyone

**Digital postcard from Pakistan! 🇵🇰**

It’s good to be back home after so long and especially for the work we are here to carry out. 🎨 📚 

We spent the past few days with some amazing students in the city of Karachi at Zindagi Trust schools. This is a part of the Women Rise education initiative called BackpackX . The response we have received from students, teachers, and overall school’s staff that got to experience the BackPackX VR Curriculum has been extremely positive and heartwarming. A huge shoutout to the teams involved and to <@874784051645526089>   for leading it so beautifully! 

Our current curriculum is focused on Climate Change and as many of you may know, Pakistan was hit by some of the worst floods in history just last year where one-third of the country was under water and over 30 million people were impacted across the country. 🍃 🌎 

Most of the students and educators we have worked with had never experienced VR before and they were overjoyed with the VR experience while also sharing that they found the subject matter to be extremely insightful and captivating.

Though everything that we do at Women Rise is close to our heart, this initiative is most special because we have launched this in our home country of Pakistan. With each activation, we try to do something different and more impactful than before. As some of you may remember, earlier this year we worked with Girls Who Code to create an incredible art studio in collaboration with Synchrony Bank during GWC’s code fair. As we are about to reach our 2nd anniversary and the end of 2023 approaching, we will continue to campaign for girls’ education creatively while also collaborating with amazing students, educators, and communities.

Thank you and so much more is coming 

✨✏️ 📚 🌍 🌱  @everyone

**Women Rise wins at European Metaverse Awards**

We are so pleased to announce that Women Rise was chosen from six shortlistees to win the Most Innovative NFT Project at this year’s European Metaverse Awards! 

The announcement was made on Thursday 19th October at an awards ceremony in Berlin, preceded by a full-day Summit featuring top speakers from the tech and metaverse spheres. Judges for the prize included representatives from PwC, Coinbase, H&M and more. Described as celebrating **‘ambitious Web3 innovators’**, we are thrilled to be recognised in this space and will continue to push for greater inclusivity, social justice and marginalised communities! 

The Most Innovative NFT Project was for our work on the BackpackX initiative, a VR educational project with a focus on educating children from marginalised communities. BackpackX is launching with partner schools in Pakistan this week!

Our thanks go to the 19-member VIP jury and to all the attendees present who voted for us. This win continues to bolster our reputation as one of the top NFT projects around and we’re so pleased to have the Women Rise community with us all the way! 

@everyone

**Charity : Water x The Other Art Fair ticket giveaway**

Women Rise is thrilled to share that our very own Maliha Abidi is a contributing artist for a Charity : Water Exhibition alongside 11 other incredible artists as part of Charity : Water’s auction in partnership with The Other Art Fair by Saatchi Art, running at the Truman Brewery in London from the 12-15th October. Each Artist has taken Charity : Water’s iconic Jerry Can and turned it into a unique art piece. View the works here: https://www.charitywater.org/uk/art 

To celebrate the exhibition, our friends at The Other Art Fair have given us a **ticket to the fair to giveaway to our community**! To enter, please fill out the form below. The form will remain open for 24 hours and the winner will be notified via email. Thank you and we hope to see our incredible Women Rise community at the Charity : Water x The Other Art Fair exhibition!

https://d5088sosksc.typeform.com/to/oYtLf3EJ 

💧Charity : Water: 
Dedicated to providing clean water to every person, all donations to Charity : Water are invested in sustainable clean water projects across 22 countries. They use innovative technology and compelling storytelling to connect people with their impact, bringing clean water to areas in greatest need. At Women Rise, we share a common commitment to sustainability goals, and Maliha's participation in the Charity : Water auction is an extension of our mission to create positive change through art.

🎨 The Other Art Fair:
Founded in London over a decade ago, The Other Art Fair is a global gathering of artists, creatives and enthusiasts seeking to discover emerging talent. It's a unique event that brings art lovers and artists together through DJ sets, immersive installations and more. The upcoming fair will showcase 150 game-changing artists from October 12-15 at The Truman Brewery in East London.

Join us in supporting this meaningful cause and celebrating the power of art to make a positive impact! 🎨

@everyone

**Maliha’s Solo exhibition Ticket GIVEAWAY**

We’re thrilled to invite you to Maliha’s first solo exhibition at Frameless London this Friday, 13th October during Frieze London. 

To celebrate we’re giving away 10 complimentary tickets to the Women Rise community for an after-hour preview of Maliha’s latest work with food and music by Soho Radio’s Nabihah Iqbal! 

The exhibition will showcase some of Maliha’s best-known work including her latest animation titled ‘Shifting Shadows: A New Horizon’. In an immersive experience, Abidi’s work takes its viewers on a boundary-breaking journey. Shifting Shadows is a meticulously crafted animated masterpiece that challenges prevailing norms for women in public realms, centred on realities observed from across Pakistan, South Asia and beyond.

Please complete the form below for a chance to win a free ticket. Form closes in 24 hours and the winners will be notified by tomorrow evening via email. We hope to see our wonderful Women Rise community at the exhibition.

https://d5088sosksc.typeform.com/to/p56p0Hpz

About the exhibition
As you step into this luminous projection, the narrative unfolds. Abidi delicately unravels the gendered fabric, shedding light on the scarcity of women in public spaces. She reveals the enigma of barren public parks and chai parlours, where safety concerns keep women from being present. Abidi paints an alternate reality where brown femininity weaves harmoniously into the outdoors, offering a hopeful tomorrow. A tomorrow where reclamation can take place. "Shifting Shadows: A New Horizon" challenges societal shadows and invites us to envision public spaces where every woman can feel safe. Until then, we imagine.

Shifting Shadows : A New Horizon will drop on SuperRare on the 10th of October and the show will open on the 13th October.

The exhibition will run at Frameless Lates from 14th Oct – 23rd Nov. Book tickets and find more details here: https://frameless.com/frameless-lates/ 

@everyone

*Be a part of BackpackX history!*

We announced the launch of BackpackX a couple of weeks ago. Today, we‘re delighted to team up with our friends at Zora to launch a teaser trailer of BackpackX! Best part? It’s totally free to get your hands on it and welcome a piece of art that celebrates art and education. 🎒

BackpackX is our latest educational initiative that brings Women Rise art to life and also introduces young children to the exciting new worlds of spatial computing, metaverse, VR and Web3. 💻

This animation marks the beginning of BackpackX's exciting journey ahead. We invite YOU to celebrate this and become a part of the history by minting this free commemorative digital collectible. We hope this art piece gets you as excited as we are about what is coming at BackpackX! 🎉

ZORA is the best place to mint. It exists to provide tools for creativity to be discovered, distributed and collected on the blockchain and felt like the perfect place for us to share this moment with our community. 💜

https://zora.co/collect/zora:0xf27cb850c463a5127fbf80a28f05e4b89864a566/1

@everyone

**Discord Update**

GM WR fam! A small announcement. As you know, we **love** our community and are so grateful to be able to come on Discord and speak with you all every day - we love hearing about your lives, your work and your interests! Thank you for sharing with us. 

However... we're a small team that puts everything into this project and, after almost two years of keeping Discord open 24/7, we would like to implement a new schedule. From this week onwards, we'll be turning Discord to read-only during the weekend to give our team a little break from social media. If you need us over the weekend, then you can submit the contact form on our website which we monitor actively. We'll continue to be on Discord Monday-Friday and hope that more of you than ever will continue to celebrate, joke, support and chat with us (and each other!) going forward!
@everyone

**What You Might Have Missed at Qissa**

GM! We’ve had a busy couple of months over at Qissa! Let’s recap all the fantastic stories and people that we have celebrated recently. 🎉

July and August saw us championing South Asian Heritage Month with some AMAZING interviews! We spoke with business guru Zara Saleem, Founder of Delhicious, and artist Misha Japanwala. What fantastic conversations! We also heard from three incredible artists from Bangladesh, Iran and Sri Lanka! What a privilege to be able to learn about all their different art practices - we are so grateful to these icons! And speaking of icons, we wrote a short introduction to Indian artist Amrita Sher-Gil, for those who haven’t yet experienced her work. You’ll love it! 💛

For all our sport fans - we profiled the Gilgit-Baltistan Girls Football League, the first ever league for girls in the North of Pakistan . We still cannot get over that scenery! And if you’re more interested in swimming or F1 racing, we have those covered too with our round-up of incredible women in sport. ⚽️🏎️

We absolutely fell in love with the writing of Forough Farrokhzad, a poet from mid-twentieth-century Iran. I mean - ‘my thirst has scalded your body like fire’. Seriously GORGEOUS! 📖

Shining a spotlight on Women in STEAM is our absolute favourite thing to do. And it’s doubly exciting when we get to find out more about emerging technologies that are making the world a better place! 💻

And speaking of exciting tech developments... We finally got to share news of our latest launch, BackpackX! We are so excited to be bringing storytelling and technology together in the education space! 🎒

Keep following Qissa to stay updated.
@everyone

**BackpackX - Women Rise’s Biggest Initiative Yet** 

Women Rise has always used art to champion girls’ education. Providing equal access to education ensures that we create a more equitable, exciting and economically-secure future for all! Since the beginning of Women Rise, we have contributed towards and collaborated with exceptional organisations focused on girls’ education such as Girls Who Code, Malala Fund, The Pad Project, Girl Effect, SOL Afghanistan and many more! We are incredibly proud to be announcing our NEWEST VENTURE into the education space with the launch of **BackpackX**!  🎒 

BackpackX is a new VR education initiative with a focus on educating children from marginalised communities in regions where the educational systems are broken or non-existent. Using the power of art and innovative technology, BackpackX will bring immersive experiences and educational content that inspires children while learning. Through this experience it will also introduce young children to the exciting new world of Metaverse and Web 3.👩‍💻 

As emerging technologies like AR/VR/Metaverse go mainstream in the western world, we must not leave behind marginalised communities. Large corporations will focus on rolling out these technologies in the advanced economies. We aspire to do the same for those in the vulnerable societies and hope that you will continue to be part of our mission. ☀️ 

The first release from BackpackX will be a short animated film where children can learn about the impacts of climate change and what solutions are needed. The film brings multiple Women Rise NFT characters to life, which is a further extension and celebration of Women Rise IP. <:WR:940377315911819344> 

We are so excited to say that the launch will be taking place in Pakistan, our home country and a place that holds such a special space in our hearts! We can’t wait for the launch and want to thank our entire WR community for your endless support!!✨ 👏 

Thank you 
@everyone

**Maliha and WR are in the Top 100 List for IoDF** 👏🎉

Dear Women Rise community,

We're overjoyed to share incredible news. Our visionary Founder, Maliha, has been acknowledged on the prestigious IoDF Top 100 Innovators list, an accolade that recognizes groundbreaking contributions to art, technology, and empowerment. 

Maliha stands shoulder to shoulder with a league of extraordinary innovators, including Jayden Ali, co-curator of the British Pavilion at Venice Biennale 2023; Stephanie Bretonniere and Dr. Anino Emuwa, key players at the World Economic Forum; Kai Henry, guiding web3 towards a true creator's economy; Jay-Ann Lopez, founder of Black Girl Gamers, championing diversity; and Gmoney, an emblematic web3 icon. 🌠

This recognition shines a light on Maliha's resolute dedication, creativity, and leadership that fuel Women Rise NFT's journey. Join us in celebrating her alongside these remarkable trailblazers, as we collectively pave the way for an empowered, inclusive future. 🌍

The Women Rise NFT family is honored to have Maliha lead us, as we continue to uplift, inspire, and elevate together. Stay tuned for more incredible strides on this remarkable journey! 🙌
@everyone

**What's been happening on Qissa this Summer**

☀️Summer continues and as we’re well into the second half of the year already, let’s recap all the stories that we have celebrated on Qissa so far this summer!🌻

🎵First we heard about the fantastic Jerusalem Youth Chorus, an organisation working to bring together youth from Palestine and Israel and encouraging them to share their stories with one another. Music is a powerful form of ART!

📺Moving on to the screen, we spoke with actress Aoi Okuyama, a very talented individual, about her career, adventures in Japan, Harry Potter (any Potter heads in the house?) and future plans. We are so looking forward to seeing what she does next!

📚We have established that we're a book loving family here at Qissa & Women Rise! We feel inspired by authors and stories, such as Pluto Press’ great Kurdish Women’s Stories. 

❤️We also did a deep-dive into the positive impact of Poverty Reduction Schemes around the world.

🎨Who doesn’t love going to see brilliant works of art on a bright summer day? We are so grateful to our friends at Art Fund for partnering with us to showcase all the incredible exhibitions, galleries and museums that the UK has to offer! We are certainly making the most of our National Art Pass now! And while we’re talking about art and artists, how about our incredible interviews with photography research project Fast Forward and textile artist Joke Amusan? 

🗣️And have we mentioned how excited we are about South Asian Heritage Month?? We interviewed the amazing poet Anoushka Bradley-Gammanpila, and we will continue to share amazing stories, exciting interviews & bring you more great content to celebrate representation and ART! 🙌🏼

@everyone

**Women Rise to exhibit at Women Deliver Conference in Rwanda**

I am so grateful to share this exciting news! Women Rise is going to be exhibiting at Women Deliver 2023 Arts and Film Festival (WDAFF) during the Women Deliver 2023 Conference where inspiring figures like activist Malala Yousafzai , Former President of Liberia Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Activist Leymah Gbowee will be sharing their knowledge and will campaign for gender equality!

🎬🎨 Join us as we celebrate the power of coming together , art and storytelling in driving gender equality and empowering girls and women worldwide.

This year's festival features over 160 inspiring and diverse creative pieces, including digital artwork, films, music and poetry videos, screenplays, and more! We're honored to be part of this tradition that showcases the talent and dedication of artists and filmmakers in advancing the health, rights, and wellbeing of girls and women.

Huge thanks to Emmy-winning filmmaker Lisa Russell for curating art at this incredible event and amplifying the gender equality movement through the arts. 🌟

Click on the link below to join the festival and explore the full list of captivating works that will be showcased at the festival. Don't miss out on this inspiring celebration of creativity and social impact! ✨🎉
https://www.wd2023.org/registration-women-deliver-2023-conference/

From 17-20 July 2023

📍 On-site in Kigali and virtually

Thank you for your constant love and support ❤️✨🎨

@everyone

**Women Rise at London Tech Week**

We're thrilled to announce that our very own, Maliha Abidi, will be sharing the stage with visionary leaders in the industry at the 10th @LDNTechWeek and representing Women Rise! London Tech Week is an esteemed event in the tech industry uniting global tech to drive sustainable innovation. 🌟Join us at @EQLHER for an inspiring panel discussion on "Revolutionising Creativity with Web3" 🚀

The amazing speakers include : 
-Maliha Abidi - Founder of Women Rise
-Oyinkansola Adebayo - CEO & Founder, Niyo Group
-Lindsey McInerney - Founder and CEO, Black Sun Labs
-Paff Evara - Co-Founder, Take up Space
-Lauren Ingram, Founder of Women of Web3

Together, they will explore the future of the internet and the tremendous potential to shape it with intention, diversity, and inclusivity. Get ready for insightful conversations on innovation, creativity, and the impact of Web3. Some companies that are representing at London Tech Week include Tiktok, Dubai Department of Economy and Tourism, IBM and so many others!

🕐 Date & Time: June 14, 2023. 2:20 PM to 2:45 PM BST
📍Ground Floor - Main Stage
Impact Stage - EQL:HER

@everyone

**Women Rise at The___Dream with House of Beautiful Business**

Get ready to embark on a transformative journey in Sintra, Portugal this June. With the House of Beautiful Business, we will delve into the realms of earthly and celestial possibilities.

From exploring the depths of mycelial networks to embracing the vastness of the metaverse, we will traverse the realms of psychedelics, quantum technology, AI, Web3, Art,  inner development, steward ownership, human-centered organizations, interspecies governance, and beyond.

Women Rise  founder and artist, Maliha Abidi, will be sharing the stage with some of the most brilliant thought leaders from around the world as she represents the WR Community and mission! Other speakers include such as Dr. Bayo Akomolafe - Post-humanist philosopher and activist, Hannah Critchlow - Neuroscientist, Amánda Efthimiou - Mental health and psychedelic wellness advocate, and many more  from around the world as she represents the WR community and mission.  

Unlock the power of imagination and join HOBB as we reshape the future.

For more information visit https://enterthedream.house/

🗓️ June 2-5, 2023
📍 Sintra, Portugal

@everyone

**Qissa continues to amplify stories from around the world** 

We’re entering our fifth month of Qissa! Let’s take a look at all the voices that we have amplified on Women Rise & Qissa since the launch in January 2023

As you know, we can’t get enough of celebrating women in STEM, whether through WR art or partnering with **Girls Who Code** ! Keeping that in mind, we started strong with our first article which was about the amazing **Afghan Girls Robotics Team**! They're such an inspiration!

And how about our partnership with Camfed!? Did you know that **Camfed’s first ever donation from the NFT space was made by Women Rise?** Since then we’ve had an incredible relationship. From campaigning for girls' education together to amplifying stories of women leaders. 

Women Rise has the best community and partners who continue to support our mission! One of those is **Feminist** , a community of more than 6 million people where, together, we highlighted South Asian women artists and curators and dug deeper into the rich South Asian art scene!! ✨🎨 This was such an important project for us as a South Asian artist-led organisation ourselves! 

We brought you powerful voices 📖 and interviews with authors, including the lovely **Palestinian-American author Hannah Moushabeck!** 

And for those whose stories matter just as much, but due to safety concerns they had to remain anonymous, we launched **Fearless Postcards,** a simple concept that shows the extraordinary bravery of women from around the world and allows us to celebrate them. 👏

We also got to sit down with so many inspirational women, from **Mbolatiana Raveloarimisa** to **Malala** to **Fathi Mohamed Ahmed**, Chief Editor at Bilan Media, and **Shabana Basij-Rasikh**, founder of SOLA Afghanistan!! 

We are so proud of Qissa and we cannot wait to bring you more and more voices from around the world! 🌟🌟

To read more stories visit Qissa: https://www.womenrise.art/qissa/home  @everyone

**Women Rise x Girls Who Code : Code Fair**

We are absolutely THRILLED to be working with Girls Who Code!

Imagine if you could see the entire process of how Women Rise was created but also interact with it! This is a collaboration and activation different from anything we have ever done before!

We are excited to announce a fun and impactful partnership with Girls Who Code for their upcoming 10th Anniversary celebration at CodeFair, a three-day event full of immersive experiences at the intersection of art, tech and culture (so all things we love)!

Our collaboration with GWC brings you Women Rise NFT Art Studio where attendees will learn all about digital and generative art making, minting on the blockchain and more through an interactive experience. 💥💜☀️ 💻 👩🏽‍💻

Girls Who Code is on a mission to close the gender gap in technology, and are leading the movement to inspire, educate and equip students who identify as girls or nonbinary with the computing skills needed to pursue 21st-century opportunities. Since launching in 2012, Girls Who Code has served 500,000 students through in-person and virtual programming, and 115,000 of their alumni are college or career-aged.

Women Rise is excited to be joining forces with GWC. We have always celebrated women in STEM and this is another step forward in our mission to campaign for girls education and to onboard more women, girls and non-binary individuals into Web3! We would love to welcome you to our NFT Art Studio! Trust me, you do not want to miss it.

And on that note, we’re very pleased to have some FREE tickets available for our community! 

Fill out this form for your chance to attend CodeFair! **For HOLDERS only** . Form will close in 48 hours! https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSertqMoUXFfCwB1npVwV1dKHPgvI0_M-Y5obaA6xPXjQWwXbA/viewform?usp=sf_link

When: 24-26 March
Where: New York City
For more info visit: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/codefair-public-hours-tickets-517069878927

@everyone

** Women Rise at NFT Paris **

GM Women Rise fam,

As you may know, NFT Paris is happening in a few days and when some of our members inquired about the tickets, we reached out to their team to see if they can arrange some for our community. Our friends at NFT Paris were extremely kind to do so and they have generously given us 5 tickets which are valued at **€390.00**.
This giveaway is for **WOMEN RISE HOLDERS** only!
 
Also, I would love to meet any WR fam member who will be at the event! I am grateful and proud of representing the community on the NFT Paris on the Main stage. Date: 25th February 2023 at 2pm.

The form will be open for 24 hours and winners will be notified shortly after that! 

Giveaway form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf9eWnFWlSlfQkseZC0RlIywQMmCf3t3XlaisOkwhd0B2pj4A/viewform?usp=sf_link 

GOOD LUCK @everyone and happy Sunday! ☀️✨

**WINNERS announced 3:15 GMT 20th of February**

NFT Paris giveaway winners: 

Congratulations 🎊 
@​camillaonchain   

@​Raafi 
@​freecastle. 
@​golem11  

@​viki_kosa  

We have forwarded your details to the NFT Paris team and they should send over your tickets via email shortly! Thank you everyone who entered the giveaway and we hope to keep bringing such valuable opportunities your way! 

🥰

** Women Rise at NFT Paris **

GM Women Rise fam,

As you may know, NFT Paris is happening in a few days and when some of our members inquired about the tickets, we reached out to their team to see if they can arrange some for our community. Our friends at NFT Paris were extremely kind to do so and they have generously given us 5 tickets which are valued at **€390.00**.
This giveaway is for **WOMEN RISE HOLDERS** only!
 
Also, I would love to meet any WR fam member who will be at the event! I am grateful and proud of representing the community on the NFT Paris on the Main stage. Date: 25th February 2023 at 2pm.

The form will be open for 24 hours and winners will be notified shortly after that! 

Giveaway form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf9eWnFWlSlfQkseZC0RlIywQMmCf3t3XlaisOkwhd0B2pj4A/viewform?usp=sf_link 

GOOD LUCK @everyone and happy Sunday! ☀️✨

**WINNERS announced 3:15 GMT 20th of February**

NFT Paris giveaway winners: 

Congratulations 🎊 
<@609821522617565193>   

<@437295401490448394> 
<@911395876356890624> 
<@901377646531870721>  

<@909754873812242432>  

We have forwarded your details to the NFT Paris team and they should send over your tickets via email shortly! Thank you everyone who entered the giveaway and we hope to keep bringing such valuable opportunities your way! 

🥰

Happy Friday @everyone! It's all go go go over at Qissa! 

We're super excited that Maliha will be speaking to Naga Munchetty on BBC Radio 5 Live at 11.35am GMT on Monday 6th Feb! They'll be discussing the journey so far, the motivation for launching Qissa and what we hope to achieve with the platform. Do tune in if you can!

Then on Tuesday, we're very pleased to say we'll be holding a Twitter Spaces for our fantastic community! Maliha will be speaking with the Qissa Content Editor (me!) about what we have going on on the platform and how it came into being. This will be at 7pm GMT so we look forward to hearing from many of you there: https://twitter.com/i/spaces/1gqGvyRnPNlKB

Finally, do head over to our website if you haven't already. We're adding more articles every week and would love to hear your feedback!! WOMEN <:rise:940380084018229350> !

**Women Rise featured in VICE News**

Dear Women Rise fam,

We are so excited to share that VICE news recently interviewed us to feature Women Rise and Maliha got to talk about the project, the disparities in the crypto and NFT space, and ofc taking up space in the Web3 arena.

With each feature, we continue to share the message of the project and the community. We feel honored to be featured on a platform like VICE news.

“Cryptocurrency was founded on the idea of freeing money from the old systems of monetary control, with all the gender inequality inherent in them. Yet the burgeoning networks of Web3, including both crypto and NFT trading, seem at risk of repeating the same striking disparities. Current estimates show only five percent of those who work in crypto are women, and an equally small proportion of NFT sales go to women artists. In this video, we meet some of the women founders, creators, and artists who are fighting to change those statistics and shape a more equitable future for Web3.”- Vice News

Please find the link for the full piece here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7f1EPQGYHJM&t=374s
 
Thank you for your support. @everyone

**New Website Alert**
 
Don’t know about “New Year, New Me” but what we are certain about is **“New Year, New Women Rise website” ** !
 
We are so excited to finally share our new website. It is a tribute to the Women Rise art, its rather a piece of Art itself! From highlights to press to the impact we have had as a community. You’ll find it all in one place.
 
You’ll get to learn more about your Women Rise collection. For anyone new to Women Rise, this will serve as their first impression and create a smooth, welcoming, and aesthetically pleasing experience.
 
In the near future, you will see more stories living on the website with Qissa. We are so excited to continue the mission of Women Rise, all driven by advocating through art, storytelling and community.
Thank you for all your support. You can check out the new website here

https://www.womenrise.art

https://twitter.com/womenrisenft/status/1611422183884046337?s=46&t=cY75eW3zb9fjifZFeYiW5g

@everyone

**QISSA behind-the-scenes**

Dear Women Rise fam, 
 
With one week to go until launch, we thought we'd share a little bit more information about the motivation behind starting Qissa!! ♥️ 

> 'Qissa is a place where we aim to give a voice to women from around the world. We want to hear their stories, amplify them, and share them globally. We will cover difficult topics (because being a woman anywhere in the world has its challenges!) but we also want to be a place for celebration and positivity. Women are doing amazing things, daily, on both global and micro levels, and we want to highlight it all.'

To read the full article, visit: https://medium.com/@cassie_43901/an-introduction-to-qissa-a-platform-amplifying-global-womens-voices-80ab215dbf90

Thank you for joining us on this incredible journey @everyone!

**Women Rise featured in VICE News**

Dear Women Rise fam,

We are so excited to share that VICE news recently interviewed us to feature Women Rise and Maliha got to talk about the project, the disparities in the crypto and NFT space, and ofc taking up space in the Web3 arena. <:rise:940380084018229350> 

 With each feature, we continue to share the message of the project and the community. We feel honored to be featured on a platform like VICE news.

 “Cryptocurrency was founded on the idea of freeing money from the old systems of monetary control, with all the gender inequality inherent in them. Yet the burgeoning networks of Web3, including both crypto and NFT trading, seem at risk of repeating the same striking disparities. Current estimates show only five percent of those who work in crypto are women, and an equally small proportion of NFT sales go to women artists. In this video, we meet some of the women founders, creators, and artists who are fighting to change those statistics and shape a more equitable future for Web3.”- Vice News
 
Watch the full interview here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7f1EPQGYHJM&t=374s

Thank you for your support. @everyone

**QISSA is coming**

Dear Women Rise fam, 
 
We've been teasing you over the last couple of days - so now it’s time to share the news.
 
We are THRILLED to say we will be launching QISSA on Thursday 5th January!!! 
 
What is QISSA? QISSA, meaning 'story' in Urdu, will embrace the power of art for storytelling to amplify diverse voices of women and girls from around the world. 
 
Diverse stories of excellence and joy from various parts of the world are often left untold and when they do get recognition in the media, they are often presented in a negative light. This creates misrepresentation of cultures, countries and communities. 
 
We want to continue the work of celebrating women that I began through my art and books. In my second book, Rise, I wrote; “Growing up, I rarely came across positive stories of women who looked like me or who I could identify with, culturally or otherwise. I wanted to create Rise so that other women of colour could find themselves in a book. I wanted to honour these incredible female scientists, activists, leaders, and artists who have worked both behind the scenes and under public scrutiny to make the world a better place.” 
 
This is the motivation with which we are starting QISSA - to take back control of our own narrative. 
 
QISSA will celebrate and represent women in the arts, sciences, sports, activism, Web3 and the Metaverse, as well as spread awareness about girls’ education and women’s rights in line with Women Rise’s mission.
 
To hear all these incredible stories, make sure you’re following @QissaTheStory on Twitter, Instagram and TikTok to be kept up to date. 
 
From **5th of January** , you’ll be able to find Qissa’s dedicated section on the new Women Rise website that’s coming soon
 
**DON’T FORGET TO FOLLOW:**

https://www.twitter.com/qissathestory

https://www.instagram.com/qissathestory
 
https://www.tiktok.com/@qissathestory
 
**Launching 5 January 2023!!**💖✨🌸🎊
 
We can’t wait to share this with you! @everyone

**Happy Birthday Women Rise ✨🎊🥰**

On this day we launched Women Rise & thousands joined our movement on the blockchain!

We are so grateful for your support!To celebrate this day, we’re giving away 5 WR NFTs. To win comment down below about a woman in your life that inspires you & why✨🌞

So much more to come as we enter another year - a new year for Women Rise ✨

Giveaway is being held on twitter and is for our holders only. Winners will be notified in the next 48 hours via twitter DM

P.S extra brownie points if you show us your stunning WR 🥰 @everyone 

https://twitter.com/womenrisenft/status/1596571317771567104?s=46&t=P1bjbcWsr0rgLtCm8Pb_4w

**Instagram Creator Week, Tate Modern Museum and more**

We're excited to announce that Maliha, the founder and creator of Women Rise has been invited by Instagram to hold a fire side chat about NFTs with Adam Mosseri, the head of Instagram at the iconic Tate Modern museum in London during Meta's Creators Week. 🥳

Women Rise Art will also be displayed in the Tate Modern Museum in Instagram's NFT gallery. 🖼️ 

"I feel increibly proud to share more about Women Rise with the attendees at this amazing event and cannot believe WR will be on display inside Tate Modern which is such an honor for me as an artist. Grateful to the community and the amazing WR team." - Maliha ✨

This is an incredible news for the Women Rise community and for its mission and will bring more attention to our project. Watch out for updates on Women Rise and Maliha's Insta accounts:
https://www.instagram.com/maliha_z_art/
https://www.instagram.com/WomenRiseNFT/

**P.S might be worth keeping an eye on Instagrams's official IG account that has over 500 million followers.** 😊 @everyone

**Welcoming new team member** 

We're beyond excited to introduce our community to the latest member of our growing team, Cassie Lawrence.

@​cassie.qissa  is the Content Editor for our new upcoming Qissa platform. She has always been passionate about sharing stories from around the world and has worked for various literary organisations with a global outlook, including Wasafiri, Saqi Books and Asia House. Alongside her work she has volunteered for free-speech advocates English PEN and literature site, Asymptote Journal, among others.

She has been working behind the scenes with the team for months to develop Qissa and can't wait to share the incredible stories with the world. Cassie will be representing Women Rise at NFT NYC London on 4 Nov 2022 where she'll take the stage to talk on the topic "Building Long term Interactions with Mindful NFT Community Building".

Let's give Cassie a warm welcome ✨
@everyone

**Welcoming new team member** 

We're beyond excited to introduce our community to the latest member of our growing team, Cassie Lawrence.

<@957372208068567122>  is the Content Editor for our new upcoming Qissa platform. She has always been passionate about sharing stories from around the world and has worked for various literary organisations with a global outlook, including Wasafiri, Saqi Books and Asia House. Alongside her work she has volunteered for free-speech advocates English PEN and literature site, Asymptote Journal, among others.

She has been working behind the scenes with the team for months to develop Qissa and can't wait to share the incredible stories with the world. Cassie will be representing Women Rise at NFT NYC London on 4 Nov 2022 where she'll take the stage to talk on the topic "Building Long term Interactions with Mindful NFT Community Building".

Let's give Cassie a warm welcome ✨
@everyone

Hello fam ✨

We are super excited to bring a new platform, Qissa (the story), that will embrace the power of art and storytelling to share stories of women and girls from around the world. **Qissa... coming soon!**

We will be sharing more about it soon so stay tuned 📣
@everyone

**Women Rise at Web Summit**

Hello fam!

I’m excited to announce that I will be representing Women Rise at Web Summit 2022 this November in Portugal 🇵🇹 

“At a time of great uncertainty for many industries and, indeed, the world itself, we gather the founders and CEOs of technology companies, fast-growing startups, policymakers, and heads of state to ask a simple question: Where to next?” – Web Summit. 

The Atlantic called Web Summit, “where the future goes to be born.” With 70,000 attendees, 50.5% female participants, thousands of media and investors joining, we are proud to represent Women Rise’s vision and community at Web Summit.

I will be participating in multiple speaking opportunities and community events to share about Women Rise, inviting people from various branches of tech from across the world to learn more about WR. ✨

Schedule: Web Summit
2/11 Round Table Hosted by Maliha: How education can advance gender equality
2/11 German Apartment: Web Summit Edition
3/11 Panel: The Future of Learning

Web Summit is taking place from the 1st of November to 4th of November. To learn more about the conference, please visit www.websummit.com 

**We have an exciting week ahead of us with multiple major announcements… stay tuned** 🎉
@everyone

Happy Diwali to all celebrating the festival of lights 🪔 ✨

@everyone

Congratulations everyone. Good luck 🥰🥳

List of winners for the discount mint spots: 🥳
@​judgemind 
@​jordinjewell 
@​kavl
@​Freecastle 
@​sasashu 
@​no.tippin.pippen_jpa 
@​joyce1111
@​calamityjane1904 
@Fanzo 🧢 NFT365 Podcast#6981
@​dangros.eth
@​dummyliz 
@​DrLabonda
@​oliv1710
@​taimox
@​shaa1ik
@​thisgirlm.eth
@​wisecloud
@​davidnotgoliath
@​warcush
@​jacqnft
@​rilnftart
@​bradthenerd
@​1008alealejandra
@​Sanskart FLS
@​GoddessIris

Congratulations to all winners 🎉 

**Super BB Mint details** 
Mint date: Saturday, October 8th at 1 PM EST 
Fusion: Sunday, October 9th 
Discounted Mint Price: 0.1 eth

**Note that the discount allowlist applies for the first hour only. Starting Saturday 8 October 1 pm EST
**
More Information on Boss Beauties' website: https://superbb.club/

List of winners for the discount mint spots: 🥳
<@821220989190537226> 
<@819649992561262653> 
<@927537301670735872>
<@911395876356890624> 
<@940360651715518504> 
<@795294981635833857> 
<@912334704542380113>
<@837921862087475261> 
@Fanzo 🧢 NFT365 Podcast#6981
<@878945289325662239>
<@941175153088401428> 
<@400511182286487561>
<@899764145744924672>
<@881545872129794050>
<@864505230926020619>
<@891819448040820766>
<@823521538975334460>
<@750769944496701483>
<@704611730537447535>
<@907290406226624522>
<@823276669522542682>
<@927300198735159386>
<@912094549491462245>
<@805689085556686918>
<@912032752973520968>

Congratulations to all winners 🎉 

**Super BB Mint details** 
Mint date: Saturday, October 8th at 1 PM EST 
Fusion: Sunday, October 9th 
Discounted Mint Price: 0.1 eth

**Note that the discount allowlist applies for the first hour only. Starting Saturday 8 October 1 pm EST
**
More Information on Boss Beauties' website: https://superbb.club/

**Women Rise x Boss Beauties **

Hello Women Rise fam, We’re excited to share that team of Boss Beauties is giving away 25 discount mint spots to Women Rise NFT holders for their upcoming Super BB mint on 08 Oct 1 pm EST. 

As a Women Rise holder, you get a 0.04 ETH discount on your mint. Public mint is 0.14 ETH whereas you get to mint for 0.1 ETH. 

To enter the chance to win the discount spot, please complete the form below: https://forms.gle/VRfw14QudMkSbXof9 The form remains open for 9 hours and winners will be announced here on discord shortly after the form closes.

**About Super BB collection**
The Super BB collection is a celebration of the superhero in every woman. Each one is different, bringing her unique strengths and abilities to the world. Super BBs don’t get their power from spider bites or magical asteroids — they get it from each other. Because when women come together, there’s nothing they can’t do.  

You can learn more about BossBeauties and the Super BB collection here: https://twitter.com/bossbeauties  

**Super BB Mint details **
Mint date: Saturday, October 8th at 1 PM EST 
Fusion: Sunday, October 9th 
Discounted Mint Price: 0.1 eth

Note that the discount allowlist applies for the first hour only. Starting Saturday 8 October 1 pm EST

Public Mint Price: 0.14 eth 
Mint opens to everyone at 1 PM EST More Information: https://superbb.club/

@everyone

Women Rise inspired artwork by Maliha rocking the Chicago Bulls Twitter 😍

Happy Friday fam! @everyone 

Chicago Bulls auction ends in about 4 hours! We’re so delighted to have received so much love from WR and wider NFT community on Twitter and Coinbase platform. Check out the rocking Women Rise inspired artwork on Coinbase if you haven’t already!

https://twitter.com/maliha_z_art/status/1573339416810356740?s=46&t=Er2oXeTx78p8m9HkEYrmDw

**Women Rise x Bubbles**

Dear Women Rise fam,

We know it can be difficult to keep up with projects and communities you love. That’s why we are always looking for better ways to share our progress and updates with our community. Happy to announce that we are joining Bubbles (www.joinbubbles.co) as a launch partner!

Bubbles lets you easily keep up to date with your favorite NFT projects and communities. 

All Women Rise Holders can now

- set communities and projects you care about on your watchlist
- enjoy all updates on your personal dashboard in one place (official announcements from Discord and Twitter, podcasts, media and governance proposals on Snapshot)
- receive a daily recap via email

Bubbles recently launched in private beta and is supporting live updates for 60+ communities including Deadfellaz, Adam Bomb Squad, and now Women Rise! From today on every Women Rise holder has exclusive and complimentary access to Bubbles. 

Go to [https://www.joinbubbles.co] and choose "*Already have a code".* You can enter the platform either with the code “rise” or by connecting your wallet with a Women Rise NFT in it. Sign up and add Women Rise to your watchlist!

Website: [https://www.joinbbubles.co]

Twitter: [https://twitter.com/discoverbubbles]
@everyone

Dear Women Rise fam,

It's a beautiful Friday and TGIF indeed. We have three wonderful pieces of news to share with you so here we go.

🗞 **Business Insider feature:** We have just been featured in the Business Insider article where they talked about 53 crypto/web3 start ups as recommended by VCs. We are grateful to be one of the very few NFT projects featured in the article and it's great to see that the article shines a light on Women Rise's long term vision of going beyond the NFT space. It's all thanks to our wonderful and supportive community that we continue to make our mark. 

📚 **Rising Women Club: In conversation with Shabana Basij Rasikh, an amazing activist rising for Afghan Girls' education.** I was honoured to have a virtual sit down with Shabana and talk about the state of Afghan girls' education, her own journey of getting an education and how she created SOLA, a girls' boarding school that's one of its kind and relocated to Rwanada during the political turmoil of 2021. SOL Afghanistan was one of the schools we conrtibuted to as part of our roadmap. Shabana is someone that inspired me and we are so excited to share her story through the Women Rise platform soon. Full conversation will be posted soon.

❤️ **Chicago Bulls Drop:** Chicago Bulls posted their official annoucement yesterday for their Coinbase drop alongside the artist list who will recreatinng their iconic logo. I am grateful and proud to be one of the artists and cannot wait to share the art work inspired by Women Rise collection. The drop will be live on the 22nd of September and will be a 24 hour auction.

Thank you for all your support fam @everyone .

Love, Maliha. 📚☀️💖

https://twitter.com/chicagobulls/status/1567902566847238148?s=46&t=fPT2H4K2LanEGpdnEZrIIw

https://www.businessinsider.com/most-promising-crypto-web3-startups-of-2022-2022-9

**Activist Club: Women Rise x CAMFED** ☀️

Do you remember the 1/1 collection we launched celebrating 5 inspiring Black women? Well, CAMFED, the Campaign for Female Education, was one of the five organizations we supported where we donated 100% from that collection and now we are back collaborating with them to make a bigger impact to advance GIRLS’ EDUCATION! 📢 📚 

We’ve just signed the #CAMFEDsisterhood pledge, and we invite you to do the same!

"With your support, we believe we can reach 1 million signatures for our Sisterhood pledge, by rallying Maliha and Women Rise NFT’s incredible networks and social communities to help inspire women around the world to take action and sign the pledge too!

We hope that the Women Rise community will enjoy hearing from their global sisters - coming with us on a learning journey, growing in confidence, and Rising by lifting others.” - CAMFED

So excited to be partnering with this unstoppable, global movement that is changing the status quo for women & girls across the African continent. To sign the pledge, visit the link for more information: http://go.camfed.org/womenrise

Let’s continue to campaign and RISE for girls education! @everyone

**Women Rise x JUMPCUT**
 
We are so excited to share that we will be hosting a NFT storytelling workshop designed by our friends and partners at Jumpcut Media!
 
A lot has been said about storytelling and NFTs. But HOW do you tell that story? Here at Women Rise, we wanted to bring you this unique opportunity where you will get to learn from talented professionals and storytellers who have worked in Hollywood with Netflix, Disney+, etc!
 
This is an incredible opportunity for anyone interested in creative writing and storytelling. The workshop theme will be telling your Women Rise PFP stories, and you will learn how to create a compelling character and write a resonant backstory. Jumpcut’s creative team will give a backstory 101, share best practices from film & TV and workshop individual holders’ PFPs

**What?** 75-minute story workshop for 25 people (first come first serve - see link below to register)
 **When?** Saturday August 20th at noon (PST)
 **Why?** Tell your PFP’s story and win 1 NFT and 2 allowlist spots to Jumpcut’s Women's Storytelling Collective (coming in September); also, get a sneak preview of Jumpcut's AI-driven storytelling tool with the help of @NailaLibrarian
 **Requirements:** Holder of atleast 1 WR NFT. Interest in creative writing/character development;
 **Link to register:** : https://forms.gle/N3fnGLNmMQfCGKGQ9
 
**About Jumpcut**
 Jumpcut is a web3 entertainment company that builds IP collaboratively with communities. The creative team at Jumpcut has robust experience running professional and hobbyist writers’ rooms in Hollywood as well as unlocking the collective creativity of existing web3 NFT communities and involving them in the storytelling process. They have produced for leading streamers like Netflix, and are currently producing projects with Disney+, Amblin (Spielberg’s company), Lawrence Bender (producer of Pulp Fiction, Good Will Hunting), and others. Their first NFT project Uppercut Training Club launches on 08/30
 
@everyone

**Voice HQ x Women Rise**

Dear Women Rise fam,

We carried out an exceptional artist residency alongside Voice HQ as part of one of our initiatives under our **Rising Women Club**. ✨❤️

To change the statistics of female artists in the NFT and art world and to empower female NFT creators, Voice partnered with Maliha. Together, they created the Voice x Women Rise program, which supports women creators from underrepresented and marginalized communities.

This artist residency exceeded all our expectations because not only did we discover talented artists from all across the world but we were able to support their art by giving away grants, supporting them in launching their NFT collections on Voice HQ, and also providing them with mentorship.

NFT evening reported, “In 2022, women remain significantly under-represented and undervalued in museums, galleries, and auction houses. Not only do the top 18 museums in the US have collections that are 87% male and 85% white, but art by female artists is sold 50% less than art by men. In addition, women account for only 16% of the NFT art market and 5% of NFT sales. Spurred by these shocking statistics, NFT marketplace Voice decided to do something to bring about real change. The result? The Voice x Women Rise project”

At Women Rise, we are using art as a tool for storytelling and campaigning. As an artist-led and female-led initiative, WR is proud to have worked with Voice HQ on this.

This amazing artist residency ran throughout the summer and you can discover the art by these RISING ARTISTS on Voice HQ.

Artist residency: https://about.voice.com/women-rise-residency/

Cool hunting article: https://coolhunting.com/culture/highlights-from-voices-inspiring-women-rise-nft-residents-program/amp/

NFT evening article: https://nftevening.com/voice-x-women-rise-smashing-the-patriarchy-through-art-nfts/

We thank our community for their support.



💖🎊

@everyone

**OnChain Monkey x Women Rise**

Hello Women Rise fam! OnChainMonkey (OCM) is generously offering 15 allow list spots for Women Rise NFT holders to their upcoming OCM Karma mint on June 29th!

OnChainMonkey (OCM) is a leading NFT community focused on real world impact and building a better future with Web3 together. With rewards and benefits through a community Banana economy and a community DAO dedicated to creating a significant impact in the Web3 space, OCM has made a name for itself, gaining notable investors such as Woody Harrelson and Owen Wilson. <https://t.co/PrMbWw0ZF7>

Karma Mint will grant membership into the community, governance in DAO, and access to their Banana ecosystem
OCM Karma: <https://t.co/WVFUWmcWm3>
Preview of Karma: <https://t.co/Kkgv7siTOF>

**How to enter:**
All you have to do is submit your wallet address, discord ID and WR NFT number in the form below and through a raffle, we will select 15 holders that will get an allow list spot for this amazing new upcoming collection.

This is only for Women Rise holders. Form will remain open for 24 hours. List of winners will be posted on discord by 9 pm BST on 23rd June 2022. Good luck!

https://forms.gle/Rw47wzabEomuiEns5

@everyone

**Women Rise x Samsung during NFT NYC**

Dear Women Rise fam,

With #NFTNYC right around the corner, we are excited to be partnering with Samsung for a gallery take over at their flagship location.

Find the details below and if you happen to visit, let us know if you spot your WR NFT with a selfie or a fun tweet or even an IG story?

Date: 23rd June
Time: 11am - 3pm EST
Address: 837 Washington Street, New York, NY, 10014, US.

🥰 Have loads of fun in New York and we wish we could be there but we know Women Rise family will be there and I assure you, you will see WR’s presence throughout the conference ☀️ @everyone 

https://twitter.com/womenrisenft/status/1538208763055849472?s=21&t=n20MKeOjJzJwW9CPuc18mQ

✨**WAW x Women Rise** ✨
 
Women and Weapons are heading to Mars and launching their Season Two NFT Collection!  🥰❤️
 

Our friends at WAW have **GIFTED** our amazing community with **25 FREE Season 2 WAWs**. These NFTs will be airdropped to winners at the conclusion of the public mint period.
 

Season 2 will be a new approach to minting. It will be an Open Edition mint where each piece will be completely unique! It will be a 5-day (120-hour) mint, allowing for strategic and low-gas minting. It will start on June 22, 2022, at 12:00 PM CST. 
 
**How to win:**
1) Head to the Premint link provided below.
2) You must be a Women Rise holder to participate.
3) You must follow Women and Weapons on Twitter and Discord. 
4) The raffle will last 48 hours. Winners will be chosen randomly and announced shortly after the raffle ends. Remember winners will get completely free WAW Season Twos airdropped into the wallet they register with. Airdrops will take place after the conclusion of the Public Sale.
 
Please sign up using the following premint link: https://www.premint.xyz/waw-season-two-raffle-WR/

Good luck fam! And we are so excited for our WAW friends!!

@everyone ❤️

**6 Month recap and our future**

Dear Women Rise family,

We are so excited to be sharing this report with you that recaps all the things we have achieved as a family together and give some insights into what you can expect from Women Rise in the future.

Women Rise community, mission and what we have been creating here is the reason we feel motivated to show up every day, more and more excited than the day before!

I’ll end this note here as you will have loads to read in the report.

So excited for what’s coming! Thank you for your constant support.

6-month report link: https://medium.com/@womenrisenft/women-rise-6-months-recap-and-our-future-9b09c7a2daf1

https://twitter.com/womenrisenft/status/1534939478107750400?s=21&t=sTKrn98r4ID9GguRs8mIOg

@everyone

**Women Rise at Vee Con**

We are so excited for this weekend to meet our community at Vee Con but also to host you at some of the events we have going on! This is what is happening during the weekend and how Women Rise holders can participate:

**19th May:** Vee Con welcome party. Please find more information for it on Vee Con Blog.

**20th May:** 
12:50 pm panel at Delta- Coinbase Club.
9:00pm : Trailblazer event

**22nd May** : Women Rise Holder dinner (invites have gone out. Please check your emails).

In between, we will be hanging out at the U.S Bank Stadium at the creators lounge, sharing content from the conference, attending various panels, mingling with community members and meeting the NFT community at large!

For our community members who are not in town this weekend, we will be sharing content throughout the day in our discord through photos, videos and just general updates ☀️

This weekend will be amazing 🥰

P.S : If have any questions related to the Trailblazer event or the Women Rise holder dinner, please reach out to the team.

@everyone

**THE announcement we have been hinting at**

Dear Women Rise fam,

Today, I have great news. Something I hinted at a few weeks back.

I’m extremely proud to announce that, I as a creator of Women Rise have been selected for **INSTAGRAM’s** Alpha Cohort  for their **NFT Digital Collectibles feature. ☀️**

Adam Mosseri, head of Instagram, announced today, “It is a limited number of people to start with. We wanted to start small and learn from the community.” He further added, “One of the unique opportunities we have is to make web3 technologies [NFTs] accessible to much broader range of people.”

The Alpha Cohort (a group of select creators curated by Instagram) will be supporting Instagram in testing this new cool feature and help them shape this new functionality through providing feedback on the use of this feature and make recommendations for additional features on the platform!

In the coming days you can expect:
-Myself posting Women Rise NFTs on my instagram **@​maliha_z_art** using the new Instagram Digital Collectible feature.
-Instagram announcing the members of the Alpha Cohort.
-The content I will post will be a mixture of posts, stories, reels.
-This content will feature Women Rise NFT and will be amplified by Instagram.
-Marketing from Instagram to promote this feature leading to Women Rise NFTs showcased, reaching new audience. ❤️🥰

Instagram will share more details over the next few days.

Lets all make this week an Insta week! Women Rise team will be changing their profile pictures on Instagram to WR NFT to represent our project. I encourage all Women Rise holders to share your Insta profile links in the #🐦share-your-socials channel so that we can follow each other! 

Thank you

🥰 @everyone

**THE announcement we have been hinting at**

Dear Women Rise fam,

Today, I have great news. Something I hinted at a few weeks back.

I’m extremely proud to announce that, I as a creator of Women Rise have been selected for **INSTAGRAM’s** Alpha Cohort  for their **NFT Digital Collectibles feature. ☀️**

Adam Mosseri, head of Instagram, announced today, “It is a limited number of people to start with. We wanted to start small and learn from the community.” He further added, “One of the unique opportunities we have is to make web3 technologies [NFTs] accessible to much broader range of people.”

The Alpha Cohort (a group of select creators curated by Instagram) will be supporting Instagram in testing this new cool feature and help them shape this new functionality through providing feedback on the use of this feature and make recommendations for additional features on the platform!

In the coming days you can expect:
-Myself posting Women Rise NFTs on my instagram **<@874779454763831338>** using the new Instagram Digital Collectible feature.
-Instagram announcing the members of the Alpha Cohort.
-The content I will post will be a mixture of posts, stories, reels.
-This content will feature Women Rise NFT and will be amplified by Instagram.
-Marketing from Instagram to promote this feature leading to Women Rise NFTs showcased, reaching new audience. ❤️🥰

Instagram will share more details over the next few days.

Lets all make this week an Insta week! Women Rise team will be changing their profile pictures on Instagram to WR NFT to represent our project. I encourage all Women Rise holders to share your Insta profile links in the <#898614049477124126> channel so that we can follow each other! 

Thank you

🥰 @everyone

**Women Rise at VEE CON**

Dear Women Rise fam, 

Vee Con is only a week and a half away so let’s get prepping for it. I am so honoured and grateful to be representing our wonderful community at Vee Con as a speaker.

In addition to the Vee Con itself, we will be hold 2 community events.

The first is the incredible Trailblazer event in partnership with Women and Weapons, WOW and BB- where all 4 communities will come together for an unforgettable night.

And the other will be a separate Women Rise holders’ dinner.

**Trailblazer event: ** If you entered the raffle, please click on this link and connect your wallet to see if you have won a spot. https://www.premint.xyz/trailblazers-event-WR/winners/ . If you won, you should see the access code after connecting your wallet that will allow you to register yourself for the event via Eventbrite. This is important as this will give you access to your ticket for entry to the event.

**Women Rise holders’ dinner:** We would love to meet our holders during Vee Con. If you are a Women Rise holder and you will be in Minneapolis between 19th of May and the 22nd of May, please fill out this form. There are limited spots due to restaurant’s capacity therefore we will not be able to confirm spots for all. The form will close in 48 hours: https://forms.gle/MiZXZ1MvJN71T6Sc7. 
Date: 22nd of May
Time: 6pm CDT

We are excited for it all!

https://twitter.com/womenrisenft/status/1522990474243551232?s=21&t=5XHYE6kmjMcBW4lnrSTLgQ

@everyone
🥰🌙☀️🔥

**WE RISE Vol I auction is LIVE!**

Dear Women Rise fam, 

We have just launched our 5-piece 1/1 collection that celebrates Black influential women such as Dr Maya Angelou, Josephine Baker, Wangari Maathai, Audre Lorde and Angela Davis.

The collection is now LIVE on Rarible: https://bit.ly/3OTYIo1

100% of the proceeds (primary and secondary) from this collection will be going to 5 organisations that are supporting and contributing to Black women owned businesses, Black artists and non-profit orgs working to support Black communities in education, healthcare and mental health. 

Organisations include **Janet’s List, The Cowrie Culture, Girls on Fire Leaders, CAMFED and IPPF Africa**. You may have heard from 3 of these organisations just now on our twitter spaces as they shared their stories on the Women Rise platform. 

This is also the beginning of our “Rising Women Club” that we mentioned in our roadmap 1.0. As we move forward, more initiatives will be introduced within this club.

We are so grateful to you that together we have built a community that can contribute to communities around the world, contributes to girls’ education, celebrates women together & continues to RISE together. ✊🏽💖☀️

https://twitter.com/womenrisenft/status/1522310125087825920?s=21&t=kavbJbOlbxAJKrfJvoJHIg

@everyone

Dear Women Rise community,

Sharing another sneak peek from the 1/1 collection that we are dropping tomorrow.

Today we celebrate Wangari Maathai. She was the first African woman to win a Nobel Prize. An environmental activist who dedicated her life to protecting the earth, democracy and advancing human rights. ❤️ She inspires us.

**Tomorrow’s agenda:** 

We will kick off things with a twitter space with 3 incredible organisations that we are supporting through this collection. You will be able to hear from these leaders and connect with their stories. twitter spaces will be co-hosted by Women Rise and Rarible.

The auction will be live right when the Twitter Spaces starts at 7pm BST / 2pm EST. The auction ends on the 11th of May at 11:59pm BST.

These 5 NFTs give you access to the same utility as the 10k Women Rise tokens and hold the same value. 100% of the proceeds (primary and secondary) will be donated to the 5 organisations supporting small business, artists, and girls’ education within the Black communities around the world.

We are grateful to the Women Rise community who continues to build with us and this collection, which will allow us to create an ongoing cycle within WR, is just another example of the goals we can achieve together!

Love, Maliha

@everyone 

https://twitter.com/womenrisenft/status/1521940965539393540?s=21&t=MJndGwUl0Q15MHL3jUY7eA

**Women Rise, Women & Weapons, World of Women and Boss Beauties are coming together at Vee Con!**

Dear Women Rise Fam,

We are extremely excited to announce something amazing happening on the 20th of May at VeeCon!

Four trailblazing female-led projects **(Women and Weapons, Women Rise, Boss Beauties, and World of Women)** are coming together for one epic event and an unforgettable night!

Say hello to the “Trailblazer: WAW x WR x BB x WOW” event, powered by The Female Quotient and Coinbase.

This is a celebration of what we, as women of web 3, have accomplished together, have built together - all thanks to the support our communities have shown us, so if you really think about it, this is a celebration of our communities!

All four founders **(Sara Baumann, Maliha Abidi, Lisa Mayer, and Yam Karkai)** will be your hosts.

We have booked a fantastic venue for 400 guests, 100 per community. There will be good food and good company, and you can already imagine that the vibes are about to be immaculate. Because we expect enormous demand for the event and have limited capacity at the venue, we are holding a raffle via premint xyz to randomly select 100 holders from each community to receive tickets. Please only enter if you will be in Minneapolis and available at the time and date of the event so that the spots go to individuals capable of attending. 

**How to enter the raffle:** https://www.premint.xyz/trailblazers-event-WR/

Winners will be chosen randomly. Upon the conclusion of this raffle, if chosen, you will be given a formal invitation and further details.

Please note that though this is a holder-only event, you DO NOT need to hold a VeeCon ticket to be a part of this event.

A special shoutout to Sara Baumann! This event would not be possible without Sara bringing us all together, planning everything, and ensuring our communities get an experience of a lifetime! ❤️

@everyone

**Coinbase Partner Spotlight and Forbes feature**

Dear Women Rise fam,

We are excited to share that Coinbase has just featured in their partner spotlight series and we ofc we had to share it with you all!  Also, we have been featured it another Forbes article. Does that make it our 4th feature in Forbes? Proud of us!

Coinbase has been an incredible partner to Women Rise. Even before they launched their beta! But trust me, this is just the beginning! Loads is coming. 💙

Forbes focused on how incredible our community is and I mean… did they lie? 🥰 

Here is the Coinbase feature on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/coinbase_nft/status/1519046846370357248?s=21&t=U190MSmYS3Yti8FJ6g7UBg

And you can also find the feature on official **Coinbase Instagram** 🔥

Here is the Forbes feature: https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbesbusinesscouncil/2022/04/26/building-a-strong-community-with-nfts/amp/

@everyone 🎉

**Still, I Rise**

Dear Women Rise fam, 

Mark your calendars for the 5th of May! We are launching the 5 1/1 pieces that are celebrating Black influential women such as Dr Maya Angelou, Josephine Baker and 3 other incredible women that we cannot wait to share about.

This collection and collaboration have been in works since January and we are finally ready to launch it! 

100% of the proceeds (primary and secondary) from this collection will be going to 5 organisations that are supporting and contributing to Black owned businesses, Black artists and non-profit orgs working to support Black communities. The orgs Women Rise has previously partnered with & continues to partner with supports BIPOC (Black, indigenous and people of colour) communities from around the world, but this collection will specifically be launched to create an on-going mechanism within WR that supports several organisations focused on Black communities.

The 1/1 series will be launched as an auction on Rarible! We will also be doing a twitter spaces with some of our partners that are part of this series and are leading these incredible organisations that WR will be contributing to through this initiative. Trust me, their stories will inspire you and will blow you away

This is also the beginning of our “Rising Women Club” that we mentioned in our roadmap 1.0. As we move forward, more initiatives will be introduced within this club.

I feel inspired by every woman I am drawing for this series.**Dr Maya Angelou’s** Still I Rise poem has inspired me for years & was the inspirational behind my 2nd book’s name, RISE: Extraordinary women of color who changed the world. The book’s title later inspired the name of this incredible community we call “Women Rise” today!

We are so grateful to you that together we have built a community that can contribute to communities around the world, contributes to girls’ education, celebrates women together & continues to RISE together ❤️

@everyone

**Chicago Bulls RISE?**

We are excited to announce Women Rise x Chicago Bulls collaboration!

This summer, Women Rise will be reimagining the iconic Chicago Bulls logo for a very special drop! But wait, there is more!

Close to the drop, we will be giving away 4 tickets to our amazing community members to a Chicago Bull game and special pre game tour of the arena! You will ofc need to wait a bit more for this one because the next season doesn’t start till October 🥰

@everyone 🏀❤️🔥

https://twitter.com/womenrisenft/status/1513575214080307208?s=21&t=1CSkgI7CwjNm_cpx2Ah50A

**Voice x Women Rise NFT Residency**

Dear Women Rise fam,

We are so excited to be partnering with Voice HQ for this amazing NFT artist residency. We will be selecting 10-15 artists for this amazing residency where you will be able to further explore your artistic side, unleash your creativity and make your mark in the NFT world! ☀️

Apply for season two of the Voice NFT Residency Program- centering themes of equity & justice, clean planet, future-proof, and well-being.

This artist residency is especially dedicated to supporting creators from underrepresented and marginalized communities to create more equity and equality in the NFT space.

Deadline : 7th of May. @everyone 

Let’s RISE together and let’s help artists RISE! 🥰

Applications open now: https://voicesocial.typeform.com/to/YDBXAa3w

Details: https://about.voice.com/women-rise-residency/

**Featured by Adobe** ❤️

Dear Women Rise fam,

I am excited to share that Adobe has just feature myself for their Women #WomenCreateWednesday 

You can find the video feature on all the official Adobe platforms.

Adobe is a company that I have been working with since I was 16. We have one more thing planned from this feature which I will share about in a few days. 🥰

Adobe has shared this feature on their platforms. Their Instagram has 1.3million followers, their twitter has 732k followers and their Linkedin has a community of 3.4 million! 🙏

I am grateful to share these opportunities I get as a creator to be able to share with about and amplify the Women Rise project further. @everyone 

https://twitter.com/adobe/status/1511780897422413824?s=21&t=PpgKgT8n-ecPDKrpVxDUPQ

**Can you keep a secret?**

Dear Women Rise fam,

Have you been feeling the calm before the storm? Because we certainly can!

2022 has been insane in the best way possible and April is ready to be bigger than March! We have back to back announcements coming up in April so you better be ready to keep up fam.

From publications to collaboration to airdrop and announcement of a huge new avenue Women Rise will be traveling on!

From more on our core goal of advancing women’s rights and girls’ education to artist residency program for the creatives in our community to air drops and brand/company collaborations! Major collaboration coming up which you may have already gotten a whiff of in the media lately!

We also crossed 50,000 on twitter which is so amazing because our family is growing constantly!

In a couple of days, we will be putting out a video with a round up of all the things we have accomplished lately and all that needs to be celebrated! Yes, weekly update videos are coming back.

Also, here is a small sneak peak of an upcoming collaboration and this art piece may or may not be an airdrop for the Women Rise holders!

Keep all of these secrets for us and stay tuned ❤️

Love, Maliha and Aski

@everyone

Announcing Women Rise x WOW Galaxy Winners ☀️✨

Dear Women Rise fam,

Here are the winners of the WOW Galaxy WR list. Please find the excel sheet attached to check if you won.

This link will be removed after 48 hours, allowing plenty of time for all winners from all time zones to confirm whether they made it to the pre-sale list! ✨

We will now forward all the winning wallet addresses to the WOW team. 

Congratulations to all the winner 🥳 @everyone

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/14r1J1BeXbOpciV6T7yT7xIUy86X8f-WGur1oACEZV2c/edit?usp=sharing

**History was just made ✨🧊❄️**

Dear Women Rise fam,

Our friends at Top Dog Beach Club just made history by depositing the first ever NFTs in the Arctic vault! 🤩

We are grateful and are honoured to share that they included a Women Rise NFT as well! So yes, we are in the Arctic vault now for 1000 years! 🧊 ❄️ 

What an incredible day! We want to say a huge thanks to Abby and Paul, the co-founders of Top Dog Beach club for taking this initiative and paving the way for all of the NFT community ❤️ @everyone

**Women Rise at the Rolling Stone x Meta ‘s official SXSW event** ✨

Dear Women Rise fam,

This is my first SXSW and so far, I am grateful to say that I have represented Women Rise at 4 incredible satellite events! But remember I said there is one more left?

Well, the final event is an **OFFICIAL SXSW** event with none other than Rolling Stone x Meta where I will be speaking about the Metaverse Creator Economy! ✨ I am quite excited for this panel and I hope to see some WR family members on the 18th as well. @everyone 

https://twitter.com/womenrisenft/status/1504163840300310542?s=21

Women Rise x WOW Galaxy : Pre-sale spots

Dear Women Rise fam, 

We are excited to share that the wonderful team of World of Women is giving away 25 spots to our the Women Rise holders for their upcoming WOW Galaxy mint.

All you have to do is submit your wallet addresses in the google form that’s linked below and through a raffle, we will select 25 holders that will get a spot for this amazing new upcoming WOW collection.

This is **only for Women Rise holders.**

The selected wallets will be posted in the discord on the 17th of March, 2022.

Let’s all RISE together 🥰❤️💕✨ @everyone 

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScy9cIf13Yfqs5Q5gL5dF_6v--X9YDXUqW8z85fpLcmomP2Sg/viewform?vc=0&c=0&w=1&flr=0

Women Rise at SXSW ✨

Dear Women Rise fam,

Me and @​Aski | Women Rise Team are headed to SXSW in Austin, Texas and are excited to represent Women Rise from 11th to the 19th of March ✨💫

I am honoured to be a speaker at some incredible events including a panel by **Pussyverse x Unicorn DAO**, at the **Female Quoteient Equality Lounge** , at the **Twitter House house for an amazing event by TW** and also at an amazing event called **MINT THIS** ✨.

Alongside these amazing events that will allow us to represent Women Rise in front of a new audience and will help them join our family, we will also be exhibiting NFTs from our collection at some of these events so if you see us at SXSW, come say hi ✨ ! We would love to meet you ♥️

I will be speaking at one more incredible event that I cannot share about just yet but that just means that more excitement awaits! 

https://twitter.com/womenrisenft/status/1502010272646676493?s=21 @everyone ✨

Women Rise at SXSW ✨

Dear Women Rise fam,

Me and <@!874784051645526089> are headed to SXSW in Austin, Texas and are excited to represent Women Rise from 11th to the 19th of March ✨💫

I am honoured to be a speaker at some incredible events including a panel by **Pussyverse x Unicorn DAO**, at the **Female Quoteient Equality Lounge** , at the **Twitter House house for an amazing event by TW** and also at an amazing event called **MINT THIS** ✨.

Alongside these amazing events that will allow us to represent Women Rise in front of a new audience and will help them join our family, we will also be exhibiting NFTs from our collection at some of these events so if you see us at SXSW, come say hi ✨ ! We would love to meet you ♥️

I will be speaking at one more incredible event that I cannot share about just yet but that just means that more excitement awaits! 

https://twitter.com/womenrisenft/status/1502010272646676493?s=21 @everyone ✨

Women Rise is excited to partner with Snapchat this International Women’s Day. 

Snapchat is an amazing platform with over 330 million daily users worldwide. 🌎 

This partnership is starting with our very own filter celebrating Women Rise NFT collection representing women astronauts, scientists, activists, coders and more. ☀️

This IWD we want to hear from you and want to know the causes close to your heart that have helped you or your community RISE and that you believe people should know about and support. For example, for us, we originate from Pakistan which one of the countries with the highest number of children out of school, so that’s a cause close to our heart.

Sharing your story will also give you an opportunity to win a Women Rise NFT this Women’s History Month.

**To Enter**
All you have to do is create a video using this Snapchat filter using this link: https://www.snapchat.com/unlock/?type=SNAPCODE&uuid=9781920d31b14dd98e04808c49aaeda0&metadata=01 
Save the video to your camera roll
Post it on at least one of your favourite social media platforms (e.g Snapchat, Twitter, Tiktok or Instagram) with hashtag **#WomenRiseIWD**

Don’t forget to tag #WomenRiseIWD so that we can see your incredible submissions.

Deadline: 10th March midnight PST

We can’t wait to see how creative you get with this filter and what stories we get to discover. @everyone ✨📣

https://twitter.com/womenrisenft/status/1501338272085204994?s=21

Happy International Women’s Day

Dear Women Rise fam,

Though we celebrate women all year long, IWD 2022 is an amazing opportunity to go all out and celebrate all women, all at once!

Women Rise team and community is busy today with the following engagements and there may be a few surprises here and there too!

First up, we will be taking over Ledger’s twitter and they will be taking over our twitter! ✨

Next, there is a video celebrating women of Web 3.0! Will you be able to spot your favourites? ✨

At 5pm GMT, we will be going live with **Rarible** on their Instagram ✨

And finally, our big collaboration with **Snapchat** will be launched! We are so so excited for this one and will post a separate announcement later in the day with all the details about it. 👻✨

🥳 so much to celebrate ♥️ @everyone

Women Rise x Malala : A conversation

Dear Women Rise fam,

So excited to share the full conversation between myself and Malala on the Women Rise stage.

We also promised a giveaway for our lovely holders and as you know, we always come through!

We are giving away **20 tickets to Women Rise** holders for an upcoming IRL event where Malala Yousafzai is a speaker. ♥️📚

**To enter giveaway:**
Quote retweet this video on twitter with how you think we can help advance girls' education

**About the conversation:**
We are joined by the biggest activist for girls' education, Malala. We spoke about the importance of education for all girls and especially members of the marginalised communities, how to reimagine education using the power of Web 3.0 and if bridging the digital divide a component in this.

There are 130 million girls currently out of school and by educating all girls only till the 12th grade, we can add 30 trillion dollars to the world economy. Not to mention how we can advance human rights, fight climate change and liberate millions of women and girls by rising for girls' education. Which is why advancing women's rights and girls' education is at the centre of everything we do at Women Rise.

Malala is an inspiration to us at Women Rise just like she is an inspiration to millions around the world! We are so grateful to her for this conversation and to be able to celebrate her on the Women Rise stage.

Thank you for your constant support, WR fam!

☀️✨ @everyone 

https://twitter.com/womenrisenft/status/1500984826643554314?s=21

Women Rise x Snapchat ✨ 

Dear Women Rise fam,

We are so grateful and excited to announce our 5th big announcement and a one of its kind collaboration and partnership with one of the biggest social media companies, Snapchat. 👻 ✨💫

The beginning of our partnership and more details will be revealed on the 8th of March where we are partnering with this incredible company that has more than 300,000,000 daily active users across the world!

Here at Women Rise, our goal is to advance women’s rights, girls’ education and keep creating value for our holders by building relationships within and outside of the NFT space. One of our main goals is to onboard more people in this space and this partnership will help us contribute towards this goal as well.

International Women’s Day 2022 is a day to celebrate women and girls! We, at Women Rise, do that all year long and me but that doesn’t mean we cannot do something special on the 8th as well!

P.S this is just the first of several amazing things that will be happening at Women Rise on the IWD 2022 so stay tuned!

https://twitter.com/womenrisenft/status/1500251949949767685?s=21 @everyone

Women Rise at SXSW

Dear Women Rise fam,

We are so excited and grateful to share that we will be at SXSW. This is our first SXSW and we are speaking at several events, Women Rise will be a part of an amazing exhibition as well and we will shortly share all the details with you! 💫

We will then be in New York for some other Women Rise meetings and engagements before going back to LA.

We will share all the details and more information shortly. @everyone 

We are truly grateful for these opportunities and for us to be able to represent Women Rise globally. ☀️♥️

Texas, here we come 

https://twitter.com/womenrisenft/status/1499716545534210060?s=21

Trailer for Women Rise x Malala: a Conversation is out ♥️

Dear Women Rise family,

We have just posted the trailer for our conversation with Malala on the Women Rise stage and we will be uploading the full video on the 7th of March!

This was an amazing moment because Malala is the biggest activist for girls’s education and Women Rise is focused on the education of the most marginalised communities. It was an honour and a blessing! 

Full video coming shortly 💫 📚 @everyone 

https://twitter.com/womenrisenft/status/1499567468842557440?s=21

Coinbase x Women Rise 

Dear Women Rise fam,

We are so proud and extremely excited to share that we are officially partnering with Coinbase NFT for their launch! We are one of the projects that will be on their NFT platform and as part of this partnership, we will be included in their marketing efforts, and various other opportunities! ♥️

@everyone 💫

https://twitter.com/coinbase_nft/status/1498707576820699138?s=21

Dear Women Rise fam,

We have a fantastic week ahead! Tomorrow, the 4th of the 7 big announcements is happening and I don’t think you all are ready for it because it is absolutely AMAZING! Even we aren’t ready for it ❤️

This announcement will help Women Rise grow for the entire 2022 and beyond! This announcement has the potential to make Women Rise one of the biggest collections out there and we are extremely proud to have achieved this! And what an awesome way to start the month of March (Women’s History Month), right?

1st March: BIG ANNOUNCEMENT
2nd March: Beginning of our partnership with Ledger. Starting with the Twitter Spaces with Ledger!
3rd March: Books and Art prints are being shipped off!
4th March : I will be speaking at an event for Horasis USA and will be representing Women Rise proudly.
5th March: 5/7 BIG ANNOUNCEMENT
6th March: Release of Women Rise x Malala conversation ♥️

What did I tell you? Even we aren’t ready for it all!!! And this is just the beginning so let’s go & let’s keep rising! 💫❤️🥳 @everyone

Ledger x Women Rise

We are proud to announce Ledger x Women Rise!

We are truly grateful to be working with Ledger during the month of March. 

Ledger's the smartest way to secure, buy, exchange and grow your crypto assets.

Our partnership will start with a twitter spaces that will take place on the 2nd of March. We will share it’s link soon. Next, we will be taking over their twitter to share more about Women Rise. Further, we will be sharing stories from Women Rise with the Ledger community! Ledger will also come to Women Rise to help, educate and support our community in making sure we are all secure in Web 3.0 and are growing our crypto assets in a smart and safe way!

This is a long term partnership that we hope will grow and nurture beyond Women’s History month as well because here at Women Rise, we believe in celebrating women and BIPOC stories all year long and Ledger agrees!

So who is ready for this incredible partnership? ☀️ @everyone 

https://twitter.com/womenrisenft/status/1498017287135121409?s=21

Women Rise x @Malala: A conversation.

Dear Women Rise fam,

Happening today, in 50 minutes and will be live streamed on our YouTube channel

This is a conversation with the biggest activist for girls’ education about how we can advance women’s rights using Web 3.0📚@everyone 

Link: https://youtube.com/channel/UCxpUq-ZrrysRwRnzPgbSv9A

https://twitter.com/womenrisenft/status/1496819720053411841?s=21

Dear Women Rise fam,

Unfortunately we have to hold off on the announcement for today. We have received word from our partners that there is a slight delay in putting the announcement out there and as soon as we have more clarity on the time, we will inform you. This happened this morning so before this, we weren’t aware of it ourselves 

None the less, the announcement will happen and it is an amazing partnership- just the timeline is changed a bit.

When you are working on collaborations, unfortunately these decisions are not yours only so we need to work with our partners to be accommodating and ofc we owe it to our wonderful community to communicate it all.

Thank you for your constant support. I will write to back to you with more soon @everyone

Women Rise in Forbes ☀️

Dear Women Rise fam, 

Women Rise in @Forbes, as part of this amazing feature written by journalist Rebekah Bastian.

We are truly grateful to be recognised by such an amazing publication 3rd time now. And this happens thanks to the support of the community 💫

This is an amazing week and we have loads to look forward to! So here we go @everyone

Full article: https://twitter.com/womenrisenft/status/1495781443917971456?s=21

https://twitter.com/WomenriseNFT/status/1494795757102067713

Dear Women Rise fam,

We wanted to share this update with you. As you know that Women Rise pledged to support 4 organisations as part of our Roadmap 1.0. One of the organisations was Girl Effect.

This is an amazing organisation that I have been in love with for several years. They work on digital divide, cultural shift and helping women and girls rise by using the power of tech and media.

Women Rise is proud to announce that we have contributed 13.1 ETH or £27679 to Girl Effect organisation. This is just the beginning of our long term partnership with this incredible organisation.

Thank you for your on going support. This wouldn’t be possible without the WR fam @everyone ☀️

https://twitter.com/womenrisenft/status/1494795757102067713?s=21

5000 ETH in trading volume crossed! 😍🥳

Dear Women Rise family,

We have so much to celebrate! So much has happened in the past several days and more is coming your way but every once in a while, we also love sharing statistics to reflect on the growth of our project and community.

So here is Women Rise in number:
☀️5000 ETH crossed in trading volume.
☀️39,000 members on twitter
☀️10,000 members on instagram

Our family is getting bigger! ♥️ we are grateful for your constant support 💫 @everyone 

https://twitter.com/womenrisenft/status/1494089806615351305?s=21

Dear Women Rise fam,

We are excited for this conversation happening in just a little bit. We will be talking to the team of The Girl Effect, an organisation I have been in love with for several years now. They were previously a part of Nike foundation and now are an independent organisation working in 20 countries across Africa and Asia. 

☀️They are one of the four organisations we have contributed 13.1 ETH to as part of our Road Map 1.0. They use the power of media and tech to help girls around the world RISE!✊🏽

Join us today at 10am PST/6pm GMT

Spaces link: https://twitter.com/i/spaces/1eaJbNXzROaJX

See you all there in a few hours @everyone

https://twitter.com/womenrisenft/status/1493945924019757062?s=21

The 2nd big announcement out of the 7! ☀️

Dear Women Rise fam,

We are so excited to announce that we have joined Randi Zuckerberg’s newly-launched creator accelerator, groupHUG! The first cohort of groupHUG is focused on elevating women-led projects and we are proud to have been selected alongside Boss Beauties, Curious Addys, and Women and Weapons to benefit from her mentorship and gain access to other resources like a network of industry leaders in technology and the arts, PR exposure, introductions to additional funding, and more.

Learn more about what Randi and team are building at thehug.xyz!

Let’s go and let’s keep riding together! 😍☀️ @everyone 

https://twitter.com/randizuckerberg/status/1493693048328527874?s=21

BIG ANNOUNCEMENT COMING TODAY!

Dear Women Rise family, 

As you know, we have 7 major announcements in general! We have already announced the first one which is the amazing Malala coming to the Women Rise stage! and now it is time for the 2nd one! Don’t worry, you won’t have to wait for too long. Just a few hours and it will be out soon.

Hint: Women Rise is grateful to be selected for this opportunity of a life time with amazing industry leader in tech and business! Cannot wait to share more.

Thank you for your support! ❤️

@everyone 

https://twitter.com/womenrisenft/status/1493657625791188994?s=21

Women Rise takes over LA!

Dear Women Rise fam,

We are so excited to announce that me and Aski are off to LA and we have so much to look forward.

From the 14th of February till the beginning of April, we will in LA and all across the U.S.

We are starting by participating at an event taking place in Soho House LA where I am proud to be a panelist. 🌴

The next day, we are filming with a media company that has over 40+ million followers. Will share more information soon ☀️

There are also several business/potential partnerships meetings that have been set up across California and in New York and we will are quite excited for them. 💫

Women Rise will be a part of several events as well (more information will be shared shortly.)

And we will be traveling across United States for all of these engagements, partnership conversations and collaborations.

We are extremely excited for this move to LA for month and a half to progress business side of things here at Women Rise to keep creating value for our holders and to keep rising for women’s rights and girls’ education! There are too many opportunities organically coming our way and many that we have worked extremely hard for! Cannot wait to share them all.

Thank you 

☀️ @everyone 

https://twitter.com/womenrisenft/status/1493230359063973892?s=21

Dear Women Rise fam,

What an amazing week we have had!

-We got interviewed by BBC (twice)
-We were mentioned in Forbes thanks to our lovely fren, Mai.
-We made a $42,000 contribution to The Pad Project. An amazing organisation that is fighting against period poverty. And they were also the guest on our twitter spaces. (More to come 😊)
-We recorded a podcast with Meta (formerly known as Facebook).
-We announced about our involvement with Adidas x Creative Debuts exhibition for International Women’s Month.
-and finally, the biggest announcement, we announced that the biggest advocate for Girls’ education will be in conversation with us! We are grateful to Malala.
-We crossed 22,000 in discord, 38,000 on twitter, 9000 on instagram and 4800 ETH in trading volume!

Now, the question is, can we top this week? And my answer is, YES! Yes we can. Stay tuned 😏

Load of love, Maliha

@everyone 

https://twitter.com/womenrisenft/status/1492944989374058501?s=21

Women Rise x Malala : A conversation

Dear Women Rise fam, 

This is probably the biggest announcement I will ever make in my entire life because this is something that I personally have dedicated my life to.

Of course, Malala needs no introduction, and it is no secret that she is the biggest advocate for girls’ education globally. This announcement is part of the 7 announcements I hinted at several weeks back.

We are so grateful and honoured to announce that Malala will be taking the Women Rise stage (virtual stage so everyone can join in) and me and her will be in conversation about the state of girls’ education around the world, the work Malala Fund and Women Rise are doing to advance it and how, through Web 3.0, we can reimagine education and make it accessible to all. Especially to the 258 million children currently out of school, 129 millions of them are girls.

She is a personal hero of mine. Not just because she is a fearless activist but also because she is a Pakistani sister that represents our country around the world and fights for billions of girls’ and women’s rights. I have been involved with Malala Fund for 3 years now and this is only the first step at Women Rise.

The event will be held on the 24th of February at 1pm GMT/ 8am EST/ 6pm PKT.

We will share the links and more details on how to join the event closer to the conversation. Also, the week of 21st February will be super exciting and this annoucemnt is just one of the reasons why.

Thank you for your constant support! Let’s keep rising for girls’ education and women’s rights.

📚✏️☀️❤️

@everyone 

https://twitter.com/womenrisenft/status/1492229017960857602?s=21

Women Rise as part of a Adidas exhibition ☀️

Dear Women Rise fam,

We are so excited to share this with you! Moniker Culture is thrilled to join Adidas x Creative Debuts for a 4 floor art extravaganza on March 17th at 425 Oxford St in London celebrating International Women’s Month. The exhibition will shine the spotlight on todays finest women NFT projects and Digital Artists by taking over the stores’ digital screens.

Expect everything from thought provoking zines, mind blowing NFTs, jaw dropping live art and artworks from the best and brightest artists from the UK and beyond. There will also be many more special surprises including a scavenger hunt, free art and more interactive elements than you can shake a paintbrush at.
 
The exhibition presents a cross-section of hugely talented curators and artists who are using their unique visual language to create striking and important work. Launching during International Women’s Month and Women Rise is so grateful to be a part of this exhibition 🇬🇧☀️🥳! 

RSVP via the adidas app via this link: https://go.adidas.com/ihha/CDxLDN

Spaces are limited. We can’t wait to see you all there!

@everyone

Rising against period poverty!

Dear Women Rise fam,

As mentioned on our roadmap, at 75% we pledged to contribute to 3 organisations! One or them is The Pad Project. 

We have just contributed 13 ETH or approximately $42000 to this amazing organisation that I have been working with for past 2 years now and will continue to work with them! We shall rise together against period poverty globally which isn’t just a health concern for millions of women and girls around the world but also is a barrier for girls education!

The Pad Project team was in conversation with Women Rise yesterday in a twitter spaces where we spoke about the details of this matter and also how Women Rise community can get involved to create further change! @everyone ❤️✊🏽☀️

https://twitter.com/womenrisenft/status/1492152842886561797?s=21

Women Rise and Meta (Facebook) 

Dear Women Rise, 

I just finished recording a two-part podcast for the Meta (previously known as Facebook) Business, Innovation, and Technology Podcast.☺️🥳

I spoke about how Women Rise is working to advance women’s rights, girls’ education and is building the first school in the metaverse. We also touched upon all the exciting elements of this space and how we can truly make it global and inclusive where we can have people from around the world. It is always our mission to have human rights at the core of our values while building amazing partnerships such as this one which will create more value for our holders.

This is an exciting opportunity for Women Rise to be represented in front of millions of people at Meta and their audience. This will be amplified on their channels as well as in front of their global audience of:

19 million for Meta for Business.
8 million for Meta for Developers.

The podcast is currently being edited! Cannot wait to share it all when it goes live and for all of you to hear the incredible ideas that were discussed during this amazing conversation.

@everyone ☀️

https://twitter.com/womenrisenft/status/1491855834049126404?s=21

Rising to end period poverty! ✊🏽

Dear Women Rise fam,

You always hear us say that we are rising for Women’s Rights! Well, there so many things that fall under these two words and period poverty is one of them!

Please join us today, as we are in conversation with the team of the Pad Project to talk about how we can rise against period poverty globally! ✊🏽 The Pad project is one of the organisations Women Rise is supporting and is working with! ☀️

@everyone 

https://twitter.com/womenrisenft/status/1491563777053110277?s=21

Women Rise mentioned in Forbes 🥰☀️

Dear Women Rise fam,

Wanted to share this lovely news that our fren Mai, who is the co founder of Curious Addys, was kind enough to mention us during her interview with Forbes and we are truly grateful 🥰

This is one of the most beautiful things about women of Web 3.0. Even when you aren’t in the room, they will hype you up and support you! Ofc a huge congratulations to Mai and Curious Addys for their feature in Forbes ☀️

@everyone 

https://twitter.com/womenrisenft/status/1491071259215634437?s=21

Women Rise on BBC! 👀
 
Dear Women Rise fam,

We are excited to share with you that BBC will be featuring Women Rise and not just once! We are filming with them this Friday and are so excited to share some behind the scenes with you!

BBC is an amazing network with global reach and we are so looking forward to potentially millions of ppl learning more about Women Rise through this opportunity ☀️

Nothing would happen without you!

P.S, we also have many other media engagements coming up! 

Grateful 🥰 ! @everyone 
https://twitter.com/womenrisenft/status/1490712992027082753?s=21

Congratulations to the short story competition winners 🥰🥳

Dear Women Rise fam, 

We loved receiving all the beautiful stories from our community! You all are so talented and such beautiful writers 

We have picked 4 winners for the competition and they have been contacted via Twitter DMs!

🥰❤️ @everyone thank you all who entered the competition and wrote a beautiful story. We loved them and congratulations to the winners ☀️

https://twitter.com/womenrisenft/status/1490498288872824832?s=21

New Twitter spaces alert ☀️

Dear Women Rise fam,

We took a small break from our season 2 of the Women Rise tw spaces show but we are back with episode 11 and we have a super special and brilliant guest on today! Sian Morson, a woman of many talents and someone I was so grateful to meet in Miami at a Samsung Next event where, as two women of color, we spoke about the importance of diversity in the Web 3.0 space! She is absolutely incredible and you do not want to miss this episode! I have been waiting for it for months so let’s goooo! 🥰💕 @everyone 

https://twitter.com/womenrisenft/status/1490404764382814210?s=21

New collection details ☀️

Dear Women Rise fam, 

It is Black History Month and while I have been celebrating black women for many years through my work, books, as part of Women Rise collection, and otherwise as well, the team wanted to celebrate stories of black women during this month and also support the black community as part of it.

Women Rise will be releasing a 5-piece 1/1 collection celebrating 5 incredible black women. 100% of the proceeds from the collection will be going towards supporting a small business run by an entrepreneur from the black community, supporting black artists, and supporting 3 grassroot organisations dedicated to supporting the black community or run by black activists. We shall share all of it with you via discord and twitter.

The collection will be launched in mid-February as an auction on Rarible.

This is a part of WR’s core values to supporting and amplifying diversity in our community. As an artis, an author, an activist and most importantly, as a woman of color, I look up to many black women and constantly learn from them.

One of the pieces from the collection is inspired by Josephine Baker, the ever so talented performer, singer, a civil rights activist, a French resistance agent and all in all a beautiful soul that we can never forget. I got to research on her life extensive when I was writing my 2nd book, RISE, and I am so thrilled to share this portrait inspired by her as a 1/1 for this project. ☀️

Cannot wait to share the rest of the collection with you.

https://twitter.com/womenrisenft/status/1489705077984092171?s=21

@everyone

New COLLECTION? 👀☀️

Dear Women Rise fam,

Here at WR, we are all about advancing women’s rights, supporting our community, amplifying diverse voices and stories and of course staying committed to our ultimate goal of educating 258 million children currently out of school.

Later today, we will be announcing a new collection that is dropping in February and this collection will be supporting small businesses, artists and grass root organisations!

Thank you for your constant support @everyone ☀️

https://twitter.com/womenrisenft/status/1489635520045105154?s=21

3900 ETH in trading volume 🎉

Dear Women Rise fam,

Always a celebration because you are all just an amazing bunch of humans who continue to campaign with us for our cause and keep supporting us!

We just crossed 3900 eth in trading volume, are at 5650 unique holders, 33,000k on twitter    AND Women Rise is going to California in 10 days! More details to come shortly but what we are most excited for is the announcement of our 7 collaborations 🥰! The first one is being announced in 2 weeks and we cannot wait

Thank you for your love and support @everyone 

🌙

https://twitter.com/womenrisenft/status/1489049728071487492?s=21

3800 ETH Volume traded! 🎉🥰

Let’s talk about Women Rise in numbers!

We crossed 8,000 members on instagram
22,000 here on discord
3800 eth in trading volume
32,000 on twitter
And we have an increase in the number of unique holders as well 🥰 switching between 5600-5650

@everyone 

Loads to celebrate! We are a growing fam ☀️

https://twitter.com/womenrisenft/status/1488691451336839180?s=21

🚨  Hey @everyone it has been brought to our attention that there is a scam going around of a giveaway drop on a website that is trying to replicate our Women Rise!! Please only use #🔗official-links  the fake/scam one looks almost identical to our website except they add an 's' on women to make it womensrise.art. ---SCAM!!! Please do not engage with any links in DMs or connect your wallet unless you are going through #🔗official-links  to be certain!! there is a screenshot of the scam in the #❌scam-alert channel!! Please be safe everyone and take a moment to read and review #🚧safety-news , the team is looking at ways to get this removed!! Much love your WR Team ❤️

🚨  Hey @everyone it has been brought to our attention that there is a scam going around of a giveaway drop on a website that is trying to replicate our Women Rise!! Please only use <#898607778577387530>  the fake/scam one looks almost identical to our website except they add an 's' on women to make it womensrise.art. ---SCAM!!! Please do not engage with any links in DMs or connect your wallet unless you are going through <#898607778577387530>  to be certain!! there is a screenshot of the scam in the <#904633333760266290> channel!! Please be safe everyone and take a moment to read and review <#904632749997039636> , the team is looking at ways to get this removed!! Much love your WR Team ❤️

Happy World Hijab Day

Dear Women Rise fam,

February 1st marks the World Hijab Day and here at Women Rise, we want to celebrate this for everyone who wears a hijab as their choice.

A hijab to me not just a symbol of modesty or freedom. It is also a reminder of all the bigotry, discrimination and prejudice hijabis face for visibly being of the muslim faith.

As a hijabi woman that is leading a project in this space, I want to make sure we celebrate this day how we would celebrate Christmas or Black Friday or Women’s History month or any of the other days that hold any sort of significance to us as a society. @everyone ☀️

Hijabis RISE!

https://twitter.com/womenrisenft/status/1488604504316645379?s=21

Let’s talk about Girls’ education ✊🏽📚

Since day one, our commitment and conversations we lead have been about women’s rights and girls’ education.

Now that we have a rise in floor, with many new eyes on the project and our social media numbers rising as well, I would like to use this moment to again redirect our attention to the state of girls’ education around the world!

We have just posted this thread on twitter with some sources as well where you can read more about this global issue impacting over 129 million girls, countless families, world economy and is contributing to an increase in inequalities. @everyone 📚✊🏽♥️

https://twitter.com/womenrisenft/status/1488475517787512832?s=21

0.8 ETH Floor and 3200 Eth volume traded 🔥

Dear Women Rise fam,

What an incredible day. We started the day with 0.4 ETH floor and now we are at 0.8! Doubled in last few days and them doubled again today!

We were mentioned by Malala Fund on their twitter and Facebook and we have some amazing news coming up!

We also got the word that Pranksy, one of the biggest collectors in all of NFT land bough 47 NFTs just 2 hours ago!

We crossed 31k twitter members and 21k discord members!

We had an AMAZING call with an incredible organisation that is supporting girls all over the globe and we are working with them to support girls’ education but also to change the cultural practices that impact women and girls negatively- especially in the most marginalised communities!

We have so much to celebrate but what the WR team wants to celebrate is you all! 🥰 We couldn’t get here without you believing in us, cheering us on and simply being with us since the beginning

So the Women Rise team, ( Aski : Project Director, Sodi : Developer , Abbey : Discord community Manager, Meg: Digital Marketing Manager and our amazing mods : Aurora, Gigi, Almz, Ralen) want to say a huge thank you to you! @everyone 🎉

https://twitter.com/womenrisenft/status/1488318161694908416?s=21

Let’s show Malala Fund some love 🥰❤️

Dear Women Rise fam,

Malala Fund have just mentioned Women Rise on their twitter! Imagine the power Malala Fund holds and how many women and girls Malala Fund and Women Rise can onboard together?

Malala Fund is an organisation have admired and worked with for several years now by contributing to articles and sharing my artivism as well! 🥰 @everyone

Let’s share our Women Rise with the Malala Fund community ☀️💕

Exciting news coming up! 🔥

https://twitter.com/malalafund/status/1488166105571074049?s=21

Book

Licensing fee

IRL events

Virtual events

Physical version

Launch partner

Artistic collaboration

International Women's Month exhibition 2022

Partnership

Residency Program to Support Female Creators

Launch partner for NFT marketplace

Charity partner

Artist and Founder

Developer

Project Director

Community Manager

Maliha Abidi

Marta

Trivia

Women's campaigner Maliha Abidi is the ultimate breakthrough activist

Chicago Bulls

Instagram

Adidas AG

Voice

Snap inc.

Ledger

Coinbase

Malala Fund

NFTea Time with Maliha Abidi, Founder of Women Rise NFT

Diversity - NFTs — The New Frontier for Social Impact

Diversity - NFTs — The New Frontier for Social Impact, Part 2

Cultural Diversity and Representation with Maliha Abidi

Into the Metaverse: Leaving No Girl Behind

Women Rise is a collection of 10,000 randomly generated and unique NFT art pieces created by the internationally acclaimed visual artist Maliha Abidi. The collection represents women from around the world and the traits go beyond the diversity of just skin colors. Women activists, artists, scientists, coders and many others rising to make the world a better place!

Women Rise allows art lovers to own a unique art piece while also making the NFT space more diverse and inclusive.

Join them in their journey to celebrate the incredible women rising on the blockchain while supporting important causes in our society that we are passionate about.

Women Rise

Incredible women rising on the blockchain

Aski

Abbey

Sodi

Women Rise at @veecon 🥰

We are so excited to meet the WR fam &amp; to connect with the NFT community members at large.
Our founder, @Maliha_z_Art , is a speaker at #VeeCon.

Apart from Vee Con, we will be holding 2 community events. Trailblazer event &amp; a WR community dinner. ☀️ 

Dear @WomenriseNFT fam! 💖🥰
Let me change your WR NFT’s background to this design we created to celebrate our selection for @instagram @meta ‘s IG Digital Collectibles Alpha Cohort!

Simple post your Women Rise below with the number of your WR NFT 💖 

All RISE my $Cult Queens!!!!!

What's one of the best things about the $cult community? Our strong $Cult Women ALL ready to $RVLT!!!!

ALL HAIL OUR $CULT QUEENS. LFG

@IRLart__ @wencultdao @cultomb @LusineAghajany2 @SoraOshi_ @mama_peens 

@wearecultdao @MrOmodulus #CultDAO #RVLT 

Just chilling on the @Coinbase_NFT homepage! 🥰❤️💙 @WomenriseNFT 

Say hello to The “Trailblazer: WAW, WR, BB &amp; WOW” event 🔥🎉

Powered by @femalequotient &amp; @Coinbase_NFT! This is a celebration of our communities!

Founders @NFTSaraBaumann , @Maliha_z_art , @lisacmayer and @YKarkai will be your hosts.

More info in our discord 🥰 

✨SPOTLIGHT✨

Q: Who's on the rise???
A: @WomenriseNFT 

Let's dive into this collection by @Maliha_z_Art, featuring artists, astronauts &amp; more.🧵👇 