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Joan Garner is wearing a red jacket in this group photo of former SONG Co-Directors, Board Member, Co-Founders and Family. Photo Courtesy  Mab Segrest. It is with a heavy heart that we share with y’all the news of Joan Garner’s…

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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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Dear SONG political family, allies and friends, Eleven years ago I said, “Yes!” to the most transformative experience of my young life. I said yes, alongside Caitlin Breedlove, to help nurture and guide a political home, organizing shop and kinship…

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 Our enemies have waged battles in our backyards but not without our organizing and our outright refusal to live without our desire nor embody their shame. Our defiance and our desire has been our survival and our resistance. Our longing…

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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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Free From Fear: SONG Announces Local Campaigns Across the South “What could be born in our communities if LGBTQ people and people of color were not afraid to walk our streets, lead in our towns, and fully lean into our…

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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…

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This year has been marked by SONG’s hard work to come together, defeat fear, and unleash power. The heart of the history of the Queer Liberation struggle has been about the will to take our lives back in order to…