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🗣️🤲 Community Care as Resistance / El Cuidado Comunitario Como Resistencia Closing Panel

Moderated by FSNYC alum and Program Coordinator / Facilitator Frances Pérez-Rodriguez, our closing panel will center community care as resistance and uplift the ongoing work of revolutionary elders.

We are honored to invite Brother Shep, a community organizer and NYC Black Panther, Walter Bosque, a member of the Young Lords, health worker, and radical acupuncturist, and Denise Oliver-Velez a powerhouse political activist, feminist, journalist, anthropologist, and the former Minister of Economic Development of The Young Lords Party and member of the Black Panther Party, to be in conversation with us.

Moderado por Frances Pérez-Rodriguez, alumna de FSNYC y Coordinadora / Facilitadora del programa, nuestro panel de clausura se centrará en el cuidado comunitario como forma de resistencia y destacará el labor continuo de los líderes revolucionarios.

Nos sentimos honrados de invitar a Brother Shep, organizador comunitario y miembro de los Black Panthers en la ciudad de Nueva York; Walter Bosque, miembro de los Young Lords, trabajador de la salud y acupunturista radical; y Denise Oliver-Velez, una formidable activista política, feminista, periodista, antropóloga, exministra de Desarrollo Económico del Partido de los Young Lords y miembra del Partido de los Black Panthers, a conversar con nosotros.

English to Spanish interpretation will be provided by @babilloses / Interpretación de inglés a español por @babilloses

Link in bio to register ✊

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¡Ahora disponible en español!

Después de los terremotos, la cuarentena, huracanes, desahucios, protestas y más... logramos terminar el primer Manual que desarrollamos!

Estamos sumamente orgulloses y agradecides de compartirles nuestre manual - Descolonización para Organizadores. Inspirado en la rueda de la medicina taína, este manual de estudios nos ayuda via diverses diálogos, prácticas y actividades para apoyar en el camino hacia la descolonización.

Aunque se creó para fomentar un cambio en la cultura de movimientos, y es mayormente centrado en la historia y ancestralidad de Boriké, es un texto abierto para todes aquelles que desean construir, descontruir y unirse en la práctica de la descolonización de su mundo.

En nuestre linktree puedes encontrar dos versiones de este manual. La versión digital es gratuita y de libre acceso para todes quienes deseen! Compras de la edición impresa se utilizará para recaudar fondos para CEPA.

Agradecemos a todes que apoyaron a que se concretara el manual en español, a Colectivo Babilla, Tania Gonzales, Maribel Caro y Lau Pat RA por su increíble aportación.

hahobāna! Gracias, seguimos!

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Now available in Spanish!

After the earthquakes, quarantine, hurricanes, evictions, protests, and more... we managed to finish the first manual we developed!

We are extremely proud and grateful to share our manual - Decolonization for Organizers. Inspired by the Taino medicine wheel, this study manual helps us through various dialogues, practices and activities to support the path towards decolonization.

Although it was created to foster a change in the culture of movements, and is mostly focused on the history and ancestry of Boriké, it is an open text for all those who wish to build, deconstruct and join in the practice of decolonizing their world.

On our linktree you can find two versions of this manual. The digital version is free and open access for all who wish! Purchases of the printed edition will be used to raise funds for CEPA.

We thank all those who supported the realization of the manual in Spanish, to Colectivo Babilla, Tania Gonzales, Maribel Caro, and Lau Pat RA for their incredible contribution. Portrait for the cover for Manual for Decolonizing for Organizers. You see a hand holding a small wheel.
Portada del manual. Se ve una mano aguantado una rueda pequeña.

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Brothers, sisters, siblings, cousins, my Asian American family. Can we call each other in to join our voices for a free Palestine?

Right now, we have the staggering opportunity and responsibility as US tax payers to pressure congress for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza.

We must mourn the dead, the all too many, many dead; not just from the past two weeks but the past 75 years. And we must call — and march, and rally, and teach-in, and sit-in and have difficult, critical conversations — like HELL for the living.

Beyond immediate ceasefire — the very minimum of what we need now — as people of conscience we must call for an end to the state of Israel’s occupation of Palestinian land, to that government’s systems of apartheid, and to OUR government’s continued military transfer of $3.8 billion a year that aids and abets unfathomable harm, sorrow and genocide. Our US government that refuses us universal healthcare, or basic income, or student loan forgiveness.

For those interested, I am down to talk like the day is long about how US and Western imperialism has affected all of us children of the diasporas, all of us who are “here” because they were “there” — how we are all bound up together, in struggle and in the sheer, astonishing possibility of collective liberation. Our relatives and ancestors have a history of being in collective struggle together! I say this not to center, but to say we can step up and speak out and act now — once again.

And also too: None of us need to be experts to do the conscionable thing. With care, I’m calling us in — please join me.

SWIPE: A favorite photo of movement godmothers Grace Lee Boggs and Yuri Kochiyama. Swipe for a couple clips from a 2021 teach-in, “PALESTINE IS GETTING FREE,” co-organized by @FIG_NYC_ with Palestinian, Black, Indigenous, Jewish, Boricua and Asian (that’s me) comrades. This will be on FIG-NYC.org/study-group (link in bio) as a resource for folx looking to draw further connections between our communities and movements.

Plus a few favorite images from Palestine Poster Project Archives. Because we need solidarity and beauty, too.

Thank you to my sister @charlenekaye for editing these clips ❤️

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To us, there are few things as life affirming as growing food, touching the ground, getting your hands in the soil.

At all times — but especially in times of heartache and catastrophe, when it feels impossible to read the clock of the world — we must hold on as much as we can to life affirming practices. We are so loved and lucky to have been able to share in them yesterday with a garlic planting workshop @brooklyngrange, with many many hands in the dirt — enough to plant 1500 cloves of garlic at rapid speed 🤎🧄🤎 We hope to enjoy this garlic together next summer, distributed in @citgny veggie shares or prepared in our collaborative culinary workshops.

Thank you @g.stacke @wakethequaker @gaycringing and all of the farmers at Navy Yard for sharing your sky-bounded piece of land with us; @pansypao @gloriapoderosa interpreting and sharing pickled garlic and flowers enjoyment; @citgny community for all of the garlic magic and knowledge you shared, and trust in what we keep building together; @tikaboo4u and mom for the beautiful energy; @orawise for always.

Grateful to weave new friends in the mix such as @earth.tenders, visiting us from the UK alongside fellow land workers @spice.mystic and @ishwaqqq; and our grant partners NYC Connect, who captured some of the sweetness on film. Special thanks to @scarrspizza for keeping us nourished and fortified with the city’s best New York style pizza.

May we all be connected to land and find ways to be reconnected if we are separated — and may we always support each other in doing so.

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A food and farms love letter ❣️❣️❣️

Grateful for our whole team to join last week for the @fig_nyc_-organized multi-partner gathering to reflect on a full season of growing, harvesting, distributing and sharing fresh produce and prepared meals as part of our collaborative FIG Food Security Program — with members of all partners in attendance, including our host comrades @brooklyngrange, @rocksteadyfarm, @pixiescoutnyc, @babilloses, @blacktransliberation and @citgny.

Beyond thought partnership, happy to do what we do best for the event — provide delicious food! Such a treat to share some of our favorite 1:1 Foods dishes — including @kay.Leefatt’s porchetta, roasted delicata squash, and grilled mushrooms in herby vinaigrette — with our collaborators, and spend quality time.

Swipe for wholesome fall fun. Food photos by @orawise; video of marigold garland joy by @victoriajyan.

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Thank you, thank you many many times over — to all our partners with whom we are building collective, collaborative visions of community food sovereignty 🌼 to mother earth, source, spirit for holding us 🌼 to the fruitful time spent, the good food enjoyed together (@brooklyngrange salad, @kay.leefatt love language of porchetta, @pedro_arvizu chocoflan), and to showing up not only for the organizing meeting but for the sweetness and pure delight of opening the day with flowers!

We kicked off our end-of-season reflection meeting and luncheon yesterday with Food Security Program collaborators @rocksteadyfarm @brooklyngrange @babilloses @pixiescoutnyc @1to1foods @citgny @blacktransliberation making marigold garlands together. Especially auspicious as it was #diadelosmuertos — and, another comrade had just shared with @orawise that that time of day, that day, was a prescribed time to work with flowers according to the biodynamic calendar 🌞🌝✨🌟

Swipe for some of the wholesomeness — may we always be able to hold on to our joy and magic, amidst the hard work and challenge of the world/s we’re in.

Photos by @kimberchou and videos (and pic of Kim’s hair) with thanks to @victoriajyan. Last photo of Grange lunch extras on the way, with bonus adornment, to @blacktransliberation’s weekly fellowship, held down each week by @pixiescoutnyc love and labor and @rocksteadyfarm delicious veg.

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Still at it! 🤸🏻‍♀️🤸🏽🤸🏾‍♂️

Today marks 24 consecutive weeks of our collective Food Security Program prepared meals deliveries with / for our compas @citgny, since pivoting based on last season’s feedback to provide more individually packaged meals (to better meet the expressed needs of community members with varying housing and working situations); alongside fresh produce shares and egg deliveries.

In the last, almost-half-year span, together
💚 we’ve raised funds for and sourced two refrigerators for #comedorcomunitarioLGBTQI — all the better to hold this lovingly prepared, culturally relevant food by @1to1foods @pixiescoutnyc made with veg grown and co-invested by @rocksteadyfarm!
💚 collaboratively catered a 150-person PRIDE party @queensmuseum
💚 farmed, swam, harvested and frolicked with #TGNC fam in field trips to @rocksteadyfarm and @brooklyngrange
💚distributed 2,223 pounds of vegetables thus far @brooklyngrange!
💚raised almost $40K to expand our work with @blacktransliberation
💚began planning culinary workshops, and
💚built community, gained trust and invested in each other’s care and getting free — which is, as the commercials say, what’s truly priceless.

These dim but cheery photos of a regular Wednesday meal delivery may not easily convey all of the above — but this glimpse into the day to day prompted a moment of pause and reflection, and oh! how nice it is to see our names on the door together 🌿 #amorconamorsepaga @citgny 🌿

[ID: Levi and Kim smizing while stocking the fridge at @citgny offices with roast chicken and veg from @1to1foods.]

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🎉Pride Month Spotlight! Today we express our gratitude for the revolutionary work of @babilloses. ✨ Claim Our Space is honored to have worked with this phenomenal team.

Established in 2019, Colectivo Babilla is a collective of Queer/Cuir transfeminist anti-racist language workers who come from experiences of migration and diaspora.

💡Colectivo Babilla works to support cultural, artistic, community organizing and political spaces in prioritizing and practicing language justice through a lens of gender inclusivity, decolonizing our tongues and self- determination. We seek to build with groups and communities who, like us, are in a process of unlearning and healing. A lot of this is done through our work of interpreting, translating, facilitating workshops and developing curriculum.

Quotes borrowed from 🔗https://www.transequityconsulting.com/blog/babillacollective

Collaborate with them! {Babillacollective at gmail.com}

{ID: Image of team members Cristóbal, Patri and Pao. Quote about their work in slide 2. Alt text included. }

#PrideMonth #QTPOC #LGBTQ #BlackOwnedBusiness #ExperientialCuration #EventPlanning Pride Month Spotlight: Colectico Babillos

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“The government will not feed, nourish or liberate us — but we will liberate and care for each other.”

I have learned so much about love, care, liberatory ways of being, and unapologetic joy in this lifetime from the trans and queer folx with whom I am lucky to be in community.

This PRIDE month — ALL months, really — please join me and my comrades and collaborators as we invest in @blacktransliberation and launch #BlackTransLiberationKitchen!

Building upon the food security work of @fig_nyc_ and @citgny, this initiative will nourish and empower our beautiful trans communities in New York — through community meals, co-created workshops, fresh produce, gatherings, and more.

We’re aiming to raise $50K from now til mid August, and just surpassed $10K after one week ♥️♥️♥️

We are facilitating the fundraising via FIG’s website and fiscal sponsorship (leveraging 501c3 industrial complex for good), and sharing part of proceeds with TRANSgrediendo as a sibling organization and FIG as an accomplice organization (which will be re-invested back into the collective work). Please swipe to learn more and see the beautiful designs by @ashandchess, and click the link in bio to donate.

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Life affirming joy is revolutionary!

Whew. How do we say all there is to say with all that’s going on in the world? Amidst everything — despite and because of it, against it, resisting it — we lean into community joy as a balm and as fuel for our collective work.

Thank you to our beautiful compas @citgny and @blacktransliberation for sharing your joy, radical love, and belief in showing UP. Thank you to our farmer and food biz comrades @rocksteadyfarm, @brooklyngrange, @1to1foods and @pixiescoutnyc for joining us in whatever ways you can within a busy growing season and events season! Special shout out to @babilloses for riding with us on the language justice front ♥️

We can’t wait for all we’re growing together in our collaborative food access work.

Thank you to our hosts @citgny for opening your space to us, and always reminding: Amor y amor se paga. And lest anyone forget: Sex work is work!

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#Giving, this Tuesday, deep gratitude for all we’ve collectively done + will keep doing with our partners in our Food Security Program (FSP), @citgny and @brooklyngrange.

These are scenes from our FIRST EVER in-person gathering earlier this month of member-organizers and leaders of Colectivo Intercultural TRANSgrediendo, FIG and Brooklyn Grange — after more than a year and a half of connecting and building, and most recently, a full growing season of 20+ weeks of fresh produce deliveries to Colectivo community members.

It was especially meaningful to gather at the Grange’s Sunset Park farm, which hosted FIG member @1to1foods “Roof Stoop Sundays” — a pop up series that raised $5965 in funds to invest back into our food security work! — and to serve food by @pixiescoutnyc, the neighborhood mothership that has incubated so many FIG comrade projects, including FSP. And to work with @pansypao @babilloses — our first connection to @citgny — for simultaneous Spanish and English interpretation.

Most of all, what a gift to break bread and share space together after all this time organizing in a pandemic.

It is a strange, strange thing, to be collectively building a new world while living in the ashes of the current one. There was so much we originally thought to say here about this particular week we’re in: Coming off the American myth making of Thankstaking, the capitalist overwhelm of Black Friday through Cyber Monday, and now #GivingTuesday, a well-meaning and powerful occasion that also highlights the sense of competition for resources in the non-profit and philanthropic worlds.

Instead, let us ground back in gratitude and possibility in the change work we are commited to with our comrades. We give to each other, with so many things other than money, all days.

If you — or your company or institution with size, access and resources — are inspired to give today, may we suggest a recurring donation to a grassroots org to create consistency in budgeting and planning. All FIG donations are tax deductible through @alliedmediaprojects, as are all donations to @citgny, a 501c3. To our comrades — #amorconamorsepaga. Thank you, thank you.

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TOMORROW / MAÑANA

virtual @ 8pm NYC

FOUND IN TRANSLATION / TRANSENCUENTROS EN LA LENGUA

Curated by / con la curaduría de: xime izquierdo ugaz y edua restrepo castaño

Language has the potential to limit and expand realities. As gender expansive people we confront language that is weaponized against our existence, lean on language that is a tool for liberation, and transform our individual and collective reality across languages. Four translators and poets of trans experience come together to discuss the particular knowledge that brews in the process of translating literary works. A moderated conversation led by the curatorial fellows.

El lenguaje tiene el potencial de limitar y expandir realidades. Como personas de género expansivo nos enfrentamos al lenguaje que se arma contra nuestra existencia, nos apoyamos en el lenguaje que es una herramienta de liberacíon y transformamos nuestra realidad individual y colectiva a través de las lenguas. Cuatro traductores y poetas de experiencia trans se reúnen para discutir el conocimiento particular que se genera en el proceso de traduccíon de obras literarias. Una conversación moderada por les becarios curatoriales.

rsvp @ poetryproject.org/events

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