Birth CoMadres Doula Collective
Texas, US – Coahuiltecan, Jumanos, Nʉmʉnʉʉ (Comanche), and Tonkawa lands
In today’s world, if we aren’t actively doing the internal and external work to decolonize and dismantle the unjust systems of inequality that exist here on earth, we are contributing to the upholding of this ongoing oppression.
White supremacy, amongst other systems of injustice, is the reality we have been born into and it is time we unlearn, relearn and rebuild a world that is safe and equitable for all.
How can we bring our whole selves — with all the intersections of our identities and experiences to the work of collective liberation?
#STWEquality #STWAntiOpression #STWJustice
In today’s world, if we aren’t actively doing the internal and external work to decolonize and dismantle the unjust systems of inequality that exist here on earth, we are contributing to the upholding of this ongoing oppression.
White supremacy, amongst other systems of injustice, is the reality we have been born into and it is time we unlearn, relearn and rebuild a world that is safe and equitable for all.
How can we bring our whole selves — with all the intersections of our identities and experiences to the work of collective liberation?
#STWEquality #STWAntiOpression #STWJustice
Texas, US – Coahuiltecan, Jumanos, Nʉmʉnʉʉ (Comanche), and Tonkawa lands
STONO is a concert-ritual exploring the 1739 Stono slave rebellion through the voices of its beyond-human participants: ancestors, water, mushrooms, guns, drums, the Kongolese Virgin
United States – Turtle Island
Wuru Taino Tekiro’uo is a grassroots initiative dedicated to the revitalization and celebration of Taino language, culture, and identity. Our mission is to create decolonial
Nyota (which means star in Swahili) is a project that aims to improve the conditions of imprisoned women and the children who live with them
State of Pernambuco, Brazil – Tabajara lands
SisterLove, Inc. is an organization dedicated to providing HIV/AIDS education, prevention, support, and advocacy for human rights and reproductive justice. To eradicate the adverse impact of HIV, sexual and reproductive health rights and justice challenges impacting women and their families through education, prevention, support, research and human rights advocacy in the United States and around the world. “We envision a world in which we can all live in human dignity with equal protections regardless of illness, disability, race, sex, class, sexual or gender identity or other cultural, social, political, economic or geographic
“The body is where our instincts reside and where we fight, flee, or freeze, and it endures the trauma inflicted by the ills that plague society. In this groundbreaking work, therapist Resmaa Menakem examines the damage caused by racism in America from the perspective of body-centered psychology. He argues this destruction will continue until Americans learn to heal the generational anguish of white supremacy, which is deeply embedded in all our bodies. Our collective agony doesn’t just affect African Americans. White Americans suffer their own secondary trauma as well. So do blue Americans—our police. My Grandmother’s Hands is a call to action for all of us to recognize that racism is not about the head, but about the body, and introduces an alternative view of what we can do to grow beyond our entrenched racialized
An in-depth look at the prison system in the United States and how it reveals the nation’s history of racial
The Community Justice Action Fund is committed to building power within Black communities to end gun violence. Community Justice works to reduce gun violence in Black and Brown communities by empowering those closest to the pain CJAF is the only national gun violence organization led by a woman of color, and is proud to be led by a governing board made up of 100% survivors of
Winner of the 1988 Before Columbus Foundation National Book Award, this path-breaking collection of essays is a clarion call to build communities that nurture our spirit. Lorde announces the need for a radical politics of intersectionality while struggling to maintain her own faith as she wages a battle against liver cancer. From reflections on her struggle with the disease to thoughts on lesbian sexuality and African-American identity in a straight white man’s world, Lorde’s voice remains enduringly relevant in today’s political
There is a growing movement to redefine manhood, and to address ways that violence is baked into our cultural expectations of masculinity. Courageous, visionary men are rising to the challenge. One of those men is activist, writer and public speaker Kevin Powell. In this half-hour, Powell boldly and bravely discusses his experiences with toxic masculinity and his journey to redefine what it means to be a man. This is Climbing Out of the Man Box: What Does Healthy Manhood Look