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Dear SONG family and friends, Twelve years ago, I unknowingly started a journey toward finding chosen family and a political home. As a queer man from an immigrant family, I was cutting my political teeth doing work around immigrant rights,…

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What is the North Carolina BLM Cohort? The North Carolina Southerners On New Ground (SONG) BLM Cohort is a leadership project for Black queer, trans, and gender non-conforming identified organizers and emerging leaders within North Carolina. Through this new cohort,…

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On July 13, 2016, members of Black Lives Matter Atlanta (BLM ATL) organized civil disobedience to amplify the call for long standing local demands in light of the police killings of Alton Sterling, Philando Castile, and Jerry Williams. Heavy police…

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Every year thousands of LGBTQ people descend on a U.S. city for the annual Creating Change conference put on by The National LGBTQ Task Force. It is the biggest national gathering of LGBTQ people over a long weekend filled with…

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Dear SONG family, allies and supporters, Nine years ago when Paulina and I became Co-Directors of SONG, the organization had few monetary resources and a small group of active leaders. What we lacked in money though was not overshadowed by…