Author: Hunter
This BlueprintNC Report, written by one of SONG’s co-founders, Mab Segrest, with Sofia Trovato, explores what some Western North Carolina organizers learned from the “unprecedented” climate disaster of a hurricane in their mountains.  We hope this information will be of…

Author: Hunter
SONG’s vision, members, and the sense of community it can build at its best make it one of the most beloved LGBTQ and Black Feminist organizations in the United States. SONG has been studied, archived, and chronicled in many ways…

Author: Hunter
Gone are the days of corporate Black History Month, filled with Target collections, Malcolm X and Angela Davis t-shirt drops by your favorite brand and red velvet fast food desserts. There have been no Martin Luther King, Jr. quote-laden statements…

Author: Hunter
Announcing Won’t You Be My Gaybor? Organizing Drive As queer and trans people across the South, we know that the safest community is an organized one.  Between ICE raids and rampant anti-trans legislation, attacks against Black, immigrant, queer and…

Author: Hunter
The old world is crumbling around us. And here we are at SONG— dreaming up new worlds. We are exercising our hope muscles, gathering our kin, cultivating queer and trans joy, and building power to liberate our people.  In our…

Author: Hunter
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…

Author: Hunter
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…

Author: Hunter
Comrades, kindred, family,  Last night, I took a drive through my neighborhood counting the number of yard signs on the front lawns of my community. The sun was beginning to set and it struck me that those signs would come…

Author: Hunter
This past month, from the hurricanes that swept through the Southeast to the BioLab fire in Conyers, Georgia, has been disastrous for far too many Southerners. Homes and infrastructure have been devastated, and thousands remain without water or power as…