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The Color out Cash Bail coloring book was dreamed up in August 2019 by a group of Richmond SONG members – Jasmine Leeward, Micky Jordan and Laura Chow Reeve – dreaming of ways to support community learning and conversation about…

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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…

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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,…

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SONG is a 23-year old LGBTQ organization working across lines of class, race, gender, sexuality and culture. We are from the South, rooted in the South and accountable to our Southern LGBTQ family. We vision a South where all of…

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*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…

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So far this year, we’ve lost at least 16 people to transphobic murder and those are just the ones that we know about. Statistics like these can be daunting, can haunt us, and can be perplexing in a moment when…

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May 8th, 2014 Here in Richmond, we find ourselves in a defining moment of our city’shistory. As Southerners on New Ground (SONG), a Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender & Queer organization of people living and working in Richmond and throughout the…

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We are Virginia SONG. We are queers in the good old commonwealth. We are artists, activists, organizers; immigrants, language interpreters, and students of the universe. We are bike babez, barrier-breakers, femmes, butch, and bois. We are parents, spirit-builders and poets—speakers…

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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…

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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.…