Red Wine & Blue Civics
Red Wine & Blue Civics is a sisterhood of women learning together about the issues that shape our lives, our families, and our communities. We host judgment-free conversations, share personal stories, and offer trainings and resources that help you change your community.
Want to get informed and meet great women along the way? Join us.
Red Wine & Blue Civics (formerly Red Wine & Blue Education Fund) is a 501(c)(3).
Healthy Shouldn’t Be This Hard
As women, we deal with health challenges that our doctors don’t seem to understand. Social media is full of people telling us how to be healthy, but it’s hard to know who to trust. Girls’ Night Out conversations often turn to those sneaky perimenopause and menopause symptoms, because it’s hard to find information anywhere else.
We all worry about our health, but being healthy in America has gotten harder and more expensive. Our grocery bills and healthcare costs are skyrocketing while giant corporations get tax breaks and put profits over our wellbeing. Many of us are caring for kids and our parents, and somehow we’re supposed to care for ourselves, too.
We are organizing women to fight for affordable healthy food, clean air and water, real science, and accessible healthcare. Join us for trainings and events, and take action with our app and local groups.
Freedom to Parent 21st Century Kids
Tired of the political attacks on our kids and public education? Feeling drowned out by extremists trying to control what our kids can learn? You’re not alone.
“Freedom to Parent” is a movement of mainstream moms (and dads, grandparents, caregivers, and educators!) who are standing up for our freedom to decide how to prepare our kids for the 21st century, ensure their safety from bullying and violence, and give them a well-rounded education.
Fight Book Bans
Book bans in school and public libraries have been drastically increasing over the past few years. In 2024, the American Library Association tracked 821 book challenges of 2,452 unique titles. Year after year, these challenges far exceed the numbers we saw before 2020 — because this isn’t about your community, book bans are a national political strategy to divide us. Extremists are banning books about Anne Frank, Ruby Bridges, Martin Luther King Jr., LGBTQ kids, climate change, and more. They want to control what our children read and learn, but the VAST majority of us do not support book bans. We want our children to have access to a wide range of voices and stories to read. As Book Ban Busters, we help you fight book bans in your community by providing Troublemaker Trainings, local organizing support, our Banned Book Club, and Banned Bookmobile kits. We give you the tools you need to work with school boards, legislators, and neighbors to ensure kids in your community have access to age-appropriate books.
Support Public Education
Extremists want to undermine public education and control what kids and families believe, do, read, and learn. On top of banning books, they want to keep our kids from learning accurate history. They want to control public school curriculum and remove discussions of race, social and emotional learning, and sex education. They are running to take over school boards, attacking teachers and administrators, and diverting taxpayer dollars from our public schools to unregulated private schools through voucher programs. Mainstream parents know how valuable our public schools are to our community, and the kids are counting on us to protect their ability to get a well-rounded education. So we’re helping you organize locally to support and protect your public schools. Through our educational events, Troublemaker Trainings, and local groups in the RWB Network, you’ll be prepared to speak at school board meetings and advocate for public education with lawmakers.
Protect Transgender Kids
We all want our kids — no matter what gender they are — to thrive in safe environments free from bullying and discrimination, with access to mental health support if they need it. But extremists have used trans kids as a national political issue to confuse and scare people. They have passed so many bans recently on transgender youth – participating in sports, receiving healthcare, using restrooms, what first names they’re allowed to use – all targeting a tiny minority of kids who deserve to grow up safe and supported like everyone else. Extremists have gone so far as to track kids’ menstrual cycles, permit body inspections for kids to play sports, ban teachers from displaying support for LGBTQ+ students, and even taking trans kids away from their parents. We have resources, like our “Showing up for the Trans Community” guide, that will prepare you to stand up for trans kids in your community.