Women’s History Month 2026

We’re celebrating Women’s History Month with a vibrant lineup of events that honor the power, creativity, and resilience of women. From local voices to global histories, each gathering is a chance to reflect, learn, and connect. Expect hybrid panels, riveting storytelling, and dynamic speakers. Join us as we explore the past, celebrate the present, and imagine the future. Dive into details below and mark your calendar!

Location:
269 4th Ave
Brooklyn, NY 11215

To Believe in Women

Speaker: Betsy Carswell
March 1, 12:30 PM

Women, including lesbians (sapphic people), have been integral to the expansion of rights for all people in the United States. Join us for a talk about the role women have played and how women who loved other women were essential to the fight for rights throughout our history…and now.

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Women You Need to Know

Speaker: Muriel Tillinghast
March 15, 12:30 PM

Seemingly, humankind has always been in some form of struggle. Rarely, if ever, was there a “golden age” of peace and harmony outside and beyond the home. Historians generally select men and kings, mighty men to determine what happened in this or that episode of existence. Long ago, I learned that men did not do whatever is attributed to them by themselves. Often women were beside them, frequently, as partners in what, in fact, was their joint pursuit. Sometimes the women were ahead of the men, bringing forward new information. Sometimes women were opposed to the prevailing norms, mounting their counter arguments and often paying a price.

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Check out our Women's History Month film screenings!

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Film Club

At Brooklyn Ethical, we don’t just watch films. We gather around them.

The Film Club is a bi-weekly drop-in screening for neighbors and film lovers who want more than passive entertainment. Each night we share a carefully chosen documentary or classic, then stay for a facilitated conversation where reactions, questions, disagreements, and personal stories are welcome. No expertise required, only curiosity.

Some films help us understand history. Some illuminate care and community. Others simply remind us how wide human experience really is.

Light snacks, open seating, and a room full of people thinking together. Come for the film. Stay for the conversation.

Location:
269 4th Ave
Brooklyn, NY 11215

March Theme: Women’s History Month

This March, the Film Club highlights women as authors of culture and caretakers of life. Our selections explore how women record experience, preserve memory, and shape communities across generations. One film looks at storytelling as survival and identity. The other looks at birth as both intimate care and social reality.

Together they ask a simple question: how do women carry history forward, in words and in bodies?

In Her Words: 20th Century Lesbian Fiction

March 1, 2:30 PM
Cost: $10

In Her Words: 20th Century Lesbian Fiction celebrates the writers who transformed lesbian storytelling across the 20th century. Through rare archival footage and candid reflections, the film explores the triumphs, controversies, and cultural shifts that shaped generations of writers and readers. A moving celebration of visibility and voice, In Her Words honors the stories that helped countless readers see themselves, finally and fully, in print.

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Midwives (2022)

March 15, 2:30 PM
Cost: $7

Two midwives, one Buddhist and one Muslim, defy strict ethnic divisions to work side by side in a makeshift clinic in western Myanmar, providing medical services to the Rohingya of Rakhine State. Over five years we witness their struggles, hopes and dreams amidst an environment of ever-increasing chaos and violence.

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Black History Month 2026

Come join us for our Black History Month programming:

February Schedule

Sun, February 1 at 12:30 pm

High Priestess of Soul Offerings and Reminders with Rita Wilson

Nina Simone was a dynamic and influential artist still relevant today. Some of her most impactful songs include her version of “Pirate Jenny,” “Mississippi Goddamn” and” I Wish I Knew How It Feels to be Free.” She was a talented, creative, and outspoken voice during the Civil Rights Movement.
With music by Dupree & Barry Kornhauser. Click here for more information.

Sun, February 8 at 12:30 pm

Writing to Remember with Jacqueline Woodson

Using excerpts from various books that she’s written, Woodson will speak on the importance of our stories in the world and holding history through narrative.
This event is ASL interpreted. Click here for more information.

Sun, February 15 at 12:30 pm

Art Is My Weapon with Hollis King

Spend an afternoon with Hollis King as he shares his journey using art as his voice to go from being an immigrant in the stockroom to a Grammy nominee. Hollis would like to inspire you to use your voice, your art, your creativity as your weapon in these current challenging days. And to use your art to carve out a new future for yourself and in your community. Click here for more information.

Sun, February 22 at 12:30 pm

Black Americans and Resistance/Resilience with Lujira Cooper

Black Americans have long transformed resistance into resilience. This program examines the histories, stories, and strategies that have sustained Black communities in the ongoing pursuit of justice and liberation.
With music by Dupree.
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All Ages Talent Show – August 2025

Saturday, August 16th, we hosted our second All Ages Talent Show, where a supportive and caring audience welcomed beginner and experienced talents of all ages, sang along, clapped effusively, and enjoyed learning a little more about each other’s talents. Saskia, from our Ethics for Children program, was the Master of Ceremonies and demonstrated her own talents by running the event with kindness, humor, and a supportive and welcoming spirit. We hope you will join us next time for this fun event!
Thank you to all who helped make it happen, especially Angel and Damon, who organized the show!

Greening, Cleaning and Collecting Food Day!

Last Saturday, we joined FOFA (Forth on Fourth Ave) and the Park Slope Civic Council for a day of cleaning 4th Avenue and planting in tree beds. We also collected food and diaper donations for Camp Friendship, which distributes food each week to over 500 households in need, including food deliveries to homebound seniors.
Thanks to a grant from the American Humanist Association, we also offered refreshments to all who came to Brooklyn Ethical for a break and to refuel.
It was fun, multigenerational service day, and our avenue looks even more lovely thanks to all the volunteers!