Statement of Community Alignment

This project acts as a culmination of experiences from all parts of the spectrum in terms of reality, personality, identity, and movement. We acknowledge we each have our own biases and personal stake in this, unrelated to what benefits our community directly. There are limited safe spaces for racialized individuals and queer individuals. There are even fewer for racialized, queer individuals. We aim to provide that. History shows that our movements are at their strongest when we combine efforts and struggles. Therefore, it is important to acknowledge that there are and always have been individuals - racialized and white queer alike - working tirelessly to combat racism and white supremacy coming from within our communities. But our history is often hidden.  

This project is the embodiment of our intersections. This project seeks to support and uplift all racialized, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, asexual, intersex, gender nonconforming, and beyond (LGBTQ+), and all working-class communities in a way that seeks to highlight, uplift, and inform our experiences throughout history and in present times. 

We prioritize racialized, queer, and working-class liberation as the only way forward for social change, while also acknowledging the problems within all of our communities that led us to disregard and undermine one another in the past. We aim to convey how our respective issues have relentlessly stifled our collective progress but also have allowed us to become open to the critiques of one another in a way that is both healthy and productive for the movement. Though it feels as though we are moving backward as a society, we would be even further behind without the support of our accomplices and co-conspirators.

With this, we elevate community organizing via all platforms, radical activism, anticapitalism, radical queer liberation (particularly racialized, queer studies), anticolonialism, anti-neoliberalism, intersectionality, abolitionist theory, decolonial theory, transformative social change, and so much more. Though this acts as a space to acknowledge and understand our flaws and qualms, it also acts as a space for healing and mending with a recommitment to one another moving forward. A revolution of our social, cultural, and political dimensions must happen in order for us to achieve social equity, justice, and progress for a future of collective, radical liberation.