Audre Lorde Project
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The Audre Lorde Project is a
History
The purpose of the Project emerged from "the expressed need for innovative and unified community strategies to address the multiple issues impacting LGBT People of Color communities."[1]
In 1996, the organization moved into its permanent home in the
The Project was begun to "serve as a home base" for LGBT peoples of African/Black/Caribbean, Arab, Asian and Pacific Islander, Latina/o and Native/Indigenous descent can work to further a collective history of struggle against discrimination and other forms of oppression.[1] At the time of its founding, it was the only organization in New York dedicated to people with an intersection of those identities.[2]
Radical politics and nonviolence
The Project's decision-making structure seeks to be "representative of our communities" and acts to promote existing LGBT people of color organizations, cultural workers and activists. The organization also acts in an explicitly
Campaigns and Working Groups
Safe OUTside the System: the SOS Collective
The Collective is an anti-violence organization focusing on hate and police violence targeting "Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Two Spirit, Trans, and Gender Non Conforming people of color", in particular in the
Originally called the Working Group on Police and State Violence, it began in 1997 in response to a rise in street violence and police harassment the organization believed was connected to the "
The group helped to found the
The Collective manages the legal case for Jalea Lamot, a trans woman who was arrested and brutalized by New York City Housing Authority police.[4]
As part of a broader anti-violence and anti-oppression approach, the Collective has collaborated with other progressive organizations, including the Rashawn Brazell Memorial Fund, the Third World Within-Peace Action Coalition, Racial Justice 911, Al-Fatiha Foundation and the American Friends Service Committee, following the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001. The Collective's "war against terror meetings" focused on how homophobia and transphobia are a part of the policies of the United States' war on terror.[5] Following the start of the Iraq War in 2003, SOS helped to coordinate Operation Homeland Resistance, civil disobedience protesting the war.[6]
TransJustice
TransJustice is an advocacy organization created by and for trans and gender non-conforming people of color. The group focuses on trans-related policies in jobs, housing and health care, including job training programs, resisting transphobic violence, HIV services and trans-sensitive medical services.[7]
Working Group on Immigrant Rights
The Working Group on Immigrant Rights consists of volunteers who are LGBT people of color born outside of the United States (including
The group also places itself within the global justice and peace movements, and acts in solidarity with liberation struggles throughout the world. The working group's members "reject the us/them divide of citizens and foreigners, and are working toward a US foreign policy rooted in nonviolence, fair distribution of resources, and equity. We also recognize that the War on Terrorism is both a war abroad and a war at home, oppressing our communities in many places at once."[8]
The organization went on record in 2006 as opposing the three-tier "path to legalization" legislation (the
The group seeks to increase understanding of transphobia and homophobia within immigrants rights and social justice movements and immigrant communities within New York City.
In 2004, the working group published a report, "Communities at a Crossroads: U.S. Right Wing Policies and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Two Spirit and Transgender Immigrants of Color in New York City".
Facilities Program
The Audre Lorde Project acts to "build capacity and support the organizational development" of LGBT people of color organizations by making available the Project's meeting space, office infrastructure and training as well as offering technical assistance, networking and coalition-building opportunities.[10] Some of the groups that have met in the Project's meeting space "include African Ancestral Lesbians United for Societal Change (formerly the Salsa Soul Sisters), Arab and Iranian LBT Women’s Group (formerly Arab and Persian LBT Women’s Group), Asian Pacific Islander Coalition on HIV/AIDS (APICHA), Brooklyn Pride, Gay Men of African Descent (GMAD), Queer Koreans of New York, South Asian Lesbian and Gay Association (SALGA), Las Buenas Amigas, and Latino Gay Men of New York."[1]
Awards
In 2000, then-executive director
See also
- Audre Lorde
- Sylvia Rivera Law Project
- Black Radical Congress
- Critical Resistance
- The New York Foundation
References
- ^ a b c d e "Audre Lorde Project". NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project. 2022. Retrieved 28 February 2022.
- ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 29 June 2021.
- ^ "AUDRE LORDE PROJECT INC". guidestar.org. Retrieved 28 February 2022.
- ^ a b c d "Safe OUTside the System: The SOS Collective"
- ^ The Audre Lorde Project (6 November 2007). "Safe OUTside the System: The SOS Collective". Retrieved 18 January 2018.
- ^ "Safe OUTside the System: The SOS Collective". Also see "AFSC Support of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) People Archived 8 April 2010 at the Wayback Machine"
- ^ "TransJustice Archived 17 April 2010 at the Wayback Machine"
- ^ a b "Working Group on Immigrant Rights"
- ^ "For All The Ways They Say We Are, No One Is Illegal Archived 28 December 2008 at the Wayback Machine"
- ^ "Facilities Program: Capacity-Building and Technical Assistance for LGBTSTGNC People of Color Groups"
- ^ "Audre Lorde Project". unionsquareawards.org. Archived from the original on 14 March 2016. Retrieved 27 January 2017.