The Language Justice Working Group is a space for members across the region, bilingual or monolingual, to help SONG strategize, build and fortify our values around creating authentic communication across race, culture, and difference. This is imperative for movement building. Language justice as a framework allows us to explicitly name the grief associated with the … Continued
The Political Education Working Group is a space for SONG staff, SONG members and Forever SONG family to identify the current political education needs for our membership. We know that grassroots organizing work requires intense study in rigor, and this space will help us continually provide tools and curricula for our membership. Contact: Angela Henderson (angela@songsouth.org)
On this Transgender Day of Remembrance, we reflect on the legacies of our trans ancestors and recommit to continuing their struggles for self-determination, liberation and abolition. Trans and gender non-conforming folks have always lead us to a world beyond binaries, restrictive categories and cages. A world not threatened by the infinity of our existence. Let's … Continued
Join the SONG Haiku Crew on November 20th at 7pm CST for "Freedom Knows Our Names", the follow-up event to their 2020 Black August group haiku practice. Building on the legacy of Black August haiku writing created by Mama Nia of Spirit House, Deborah Lilton, Ron Ragin, FreeQuency, Ra Imhotep, and Cherizar Crippen will read … Continued
You are warmly invited to attend SONG Atlanta’s Gaycation Staycation: Movie Night! Saturday, November 21st: Dinner and a Starlight Drive-In Double Feature (5PM – Until Late) You will receive a pre-packed, catered dinner as well as PPE (personal protective equipment) and have the chance to paint your vehicle as gay as you want before driving over … Continued
These once a month calls are a vehicle for member-leaders organizing SONG campaigns across the South to talk to one another, share strategies and tactics, assess the conditions we are facing regionally, share out core organizing training and tools, troubleshoot challenges that are arising, build trust, and strengthen relationships. The Free From Fear regional calls happen on the 1st Tuesday of each month. … Continued
You are warmly invited to attend SONG Atlanta's Gaycation Staycation: Movie Night! Saturday, November 21st: Dinner and a Starlight Drive-In Double Feature (5PM - Until Late) You will receive a pre-packed, catered dinner as well as PPE (personal protective equipment) and have the chance to paint your vehicle as gay as you want before driving … Continued
Calling all queer white Southern kin. Our ancestors designed this terror. Our cousins are the white vigilantes chasing and murdering Black people and fighting tooth-and-nail to extend this racist regime. As white Southerners, it has been long past time for all of us to come off the sidelines in this moment and play our role. … Continued
Calling all members, new and seasoned, to our End of Year Regional Membership Call + Holiday Party on December 6, 2020 from 6-8pm ET/ 5-7pm CT. Though 2020 had its trials and tribulations, along with growth and transformations, we are still here, ready and willing to fight. ⠀ ⠀ Join us as we welcome new … Continued
Join us on Wednesday, December 9th, at 5pm CT/6pm ET for our SONG Tennessee statewide virtual strategy set call. On the call, we will reflect on the past year, surface opportunities and threats for our organizing, hear from deep organizers in Tennessee ahead of 2021 and 2022 fights, and develop synergy around how to move … Continued
Join SONG Virginia members for Round 2 of Virginia W.A.P. (Writing And Political education program). This new initiative is focused on exchanging letters with folks incarcerated and prison abolition education. As the leader of the 1971 Attica Prison uprising, Frank "Big Black" Smith famously says "Attica is all of us", meaning the way we treat … Continued
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