August Black Membership Huddle 2020!

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This special membership meeting will convene SONG's Black members to plan for Black Queer August and beyond.

 

On Tuesday, August 11, 2020 from 6:30-8:30 pm ET, SONG will convene our Black membership for a Black LGBTQ+ liberation movement-building meeting. We will clock where our people are in this movement - from the margins to the frontlines. We will take a needs assessment of the resources and support that Black queer and trans people need to keep ourselves safe and continue fighting. We will build out a strategy for a Black Queer August full of Black queer joy, education, agitation, community-building, and resistance. As the people embrace abolition, we will manifest a world that cherishes and celebrates Black queer and trans people. Will you join us?

As we enter the seventh week of uprisings sparked by the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis, we see that this moment of rebellion has fed into the rekindling of the global movement for Black liberation. After centuries of abolitionist organizing, the call to defund the police, invest in communities and redefine public safety is a topic of household conversations. Elected officials in larger cities in the US are preparing to cut ties with police departments or dismantle them altogether. Small and rural town organizers are expanding their local power drastically by hosting protests and tackling racist monuments. We are seeing our wildest dreams play out in real time, and we have radical Black leadership to thank for it.

As Black queer and trans freedom fighters, we know how high the stakes are for our people. We carry on a legacy of resistance that is rooted in Southern organizing and survival. When white supremacists threatened our communities, we created underground networks of defense to keep us safe. When predominantly cisgender and straight Black liberation movements silenced our queer and trans identities, we raised our voices even louder in the streets. When police terrorized our loved ones, we threw the first brick. Black liberation cannot be separated from queer liberation -- they will always be fruit borne of the same tree.

When
August 11, 2020 from  6:30 PM to  8:30 PM