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As we have continued to uplift and demand justice in individual instances of police violence against Black women, girls, trans and gender nonconforming people, the need to create alternate visions and structures of safety premised on community care, survivor-centered leadership, rapid response and accountability beyond police has become more and more apparent. We can no longer solely pursue visibility of our experiences of policing, reforms that fail to reduce the role of police in the lives of Black women, trans and GNC people, or strategies that seek justice and accountability from systems explicitly created to police, regulate, control and punish our bodies and restrict our autonomy and self-determination. At the same time, we need to continue to document the ways in which our bodies are violated by police in order to demand justice for our sisters and siblings and to make the case for removing police from our schools, institutions, and communities and building alternatives that will genuinely produce safety for all of us.

 

 Campaigns:

Building Safety for Black Transwomen and Gender Nonconforming People:

Ensuring the safety and leadership of Black trans women and GNC people are woven into every step of our network strategy, from membership training to resource creation and sharing, and allocating resources to support their healing spaces.
 

Halting The Eviction Crisis and Police Encounters at Home: A Queer Black Feminist Strategy for Safe Alternatives: Addressing police terrorism on Black women, girls, trans, and GNC people's housing insecurities and creating large-scale safe alternatives.

The Black Feminist Vision to End The War on Drugs:

Building a Black feminist Care Network to protect Black women, girls, trans, and GNC people who are drug users from police-sanctioned violence.
 

Safety Over Commerce: Ending the Shoplifting Copaganda:

Utilizing our research report findings and recommendations to make a toolkit for community understanding and intervention against shoplifting-related police violence.

 

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Movement Building Projects:
 

Police Violence Survivor Fund
Acts as a direct aid and mini-grant program for individuals targeted by racialized and gendered police violence and criminalization. It will directly support survivors of physical, sexual, economic, and fatal violence by police, as well as people subject to family policing and separation by providing them with tangible resources to heal and reroot their lives in safety.

Youth Teach-In Series for Sexualization Not Safety
This series aims to empower and amplify the voices and findings of the youth research team from our national storytelling project, providing a platform to explore findings and recommendations from the report "Safety Not Sexualization."

Safety for Black Transwomen and Gender Nonconforming People
Aligning with our Black feminist values and the growth of our political movement, we prioritize the safety and leadership of Black trans women in every network strategy aspect and allocate resources to ensure that Black trans women survivors of police violence are part of healing spaces.

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