A Long Walk Home: A Long Walk Home is a Chicago-based national non-profit that cultivates the next generation of leaders committed to gender equity and racial justice. Founded in 2003 by sisters Salamishah and Scheherazade Tillet, A Long Walk Home works with artists, students, activists, therapists, and community organizations and cultural institutions to elevate marginalized voices, facilitate healing, and activate social change. [Website] [IG]
BYP100: BYP100 is a National, member-based organization of Black 18-35 year old activists and organizers, dedicated to creating justice and freedom for all Black people. They do this through building a network focused on transformative leadership development, direct action organizing, advocacy, and political education using a Black queer feminist lens. Their #SheSafeWeSafe initiative works to bring attention to gender-based violence against Black women, girls and gender-non-conforming individuals. [Website] [IG]
Femme Defensa: A by-survivors, for-survivors collective that supports femmes in Pilsen and Little Village and provides them with tools and tactics to keep themselves safe and organizing mutual aid. [IG]
KAN-WIN: KAN-WIN works to eradicate gender-based violence through comprehensive, survivor-centered services, education, and outreach to Asian American communities and beyond. [Website] [IG]
Love & Protect: Love & Protect supports those who identify as women and gender non-conforming persons of color who are criminalized or harmed by state and interpersonal violence. Through love, they work towards healing and transformation with these individuals and their families. Through resistance, they seek to protect their right to defend themselves. [Website] [IG]
Sarah’s Circle: Sarah’s Circle provides a full continuum of services for women, including housing, life necessities, and supportive services to help them permanently end their homelessness. [Website] [IG]
Transgender Action Self-Defense Collective: TASC are trans revolutionaries working in Chicago to cultivate practical knowledge, skills, resources, consciousness, & dual power, offering workshops and resources on self-defense, cybersecurity and more. [IG]
beyond november 