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Radical Imagination and Transformative Leadership: Announcing Carlin and Jade as SONG Co-Directors

Our Work

Free From Fear 2024 Cohort

Calling Southern LGBTQ+ freedom fighters committed to meeting wretched times with bold and visionary campaign organizing to build power and

Strategic Almanac

The tradition of Southerners on New Ground is that we embrace hope over fear, and that we know ourselves to

Our Chapters

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Our Beliefs & Strategies

SONG is about transformation: transforming our communities, the world, and ourselves.  The vision for this transformation, and its resulting programmatic

Free From Fear Campaign

North Carolina SONG Black Lives Matter Cohort
Photo by: Elainiel Baldwin
After years of shifting political waters and we know

Member Initiated Projects

SONG’s kinship network is the bedrock of our membership and organization. As our theory of change states, “When SONG can

Convenings

SONG’s membership convenings are a key way for us to come together, build and strategize as a regional organization. Our
Mourning the loss of our dear comrade Roberta Penn 
January 23, 1944 – Nov. 28, 2024 Roberta was a fierce, loving, and committed member-leader of SONG. She was deeply involved in The Campaign to End Cash Bail, guerilla theater, and prison letter writing. Residing in Wilmington, she put SONG…
Make Empire Impossible
Let us keep breathing. Let us keep allowing grief to wash over us and our love for our people to fill us. Let us feel our ancestors at our back. Let us keep reaching out, checking in on, and holding…