Category: Small Town South
Today, we offer a prayer. To our beloveds and our comrades in Charlottesville, who witnessed and fought against what too many of us have long known to be true –  that the racism, white supremacy, and white vigilante violence on…

Category: Small Town South
Across the country and in the South we recognize the importance of this political moment. We recognize how dangerous and rampant the anti-Black, anti-immigrant, anti-poor, anti-woman, anti-trans, and anti-queer rhetoric is this election cycle. All spring and summer SONG members,…

Category: Small Town South
The Tragedies and Violence of Our Times Will Be Met with the Fierceness of Our Rage and Grace This year has been like a never-ending game of battleship. The political ground is shifting before our feet. The universe itself has…

Category: Small Town South
Across the South countless statewide bills have been introduced that spread viscious lies and myths about transgender people, queer people, and LGB people who fall along a gender spectrum, either by appearance or behavior, not deemed within, “a natural order…

Category: Small Town South
*English Transcript Available on Vimeo January 2016 hit many of us full speed ahead. As we were planning our New Year’s resolutions and dreaming about all the projects we would do this year, we wrestled with the reality of a…

Category: Small Town South
Over the weekend of April 2nd and 3rd, members of Southerners On New Ground attended We Want Freedom: Resisting Criminalization in the Southeast, a regional gathering in Birmingham, Alabama, to discuss the intersections of police violence, mass incarceration, unjust immigration…

Category: Small Town South
Today is the day! SONG is participating with over 55 LGBTQ organizations and 70 cities for the #not1more Day of Action to STOP DEPORTATIONS, because we know that there are 267,000 undocumented queer and trans people navigating the cogs of the…

Category: Small Town South
MEDIA RELEASE Media Contact: Paulina Helm-Hernandez 404-919-1412 LGBTQ Southerners Join the National Day of Action to End Deportation Southerners on New Ground (SONG) is bringing the call of the national Not1More campaign to four locations in the South on Saturday, April 5th.…

Category: Small Town South
SONG has been hard at work over the past 12 months developing a rural and small town organizing program for LGBTQ people in the South. We’ve done a lot of research and have talked to a lot of people. Our…