We are in the early stages of a long-term commitment to sisterhood across borders. For us, this means participatory grant making, because it inherently shifts power to the historically excluded. We are honored to partner with organizations taking up the mantle of leadership realized by maroon leaders Polonia in 16th century Colombia, Dandara in 17th century Brazil, and many other Black women throughout the Americas, known and unknown, who struggled, innovated and strategized for justice and peace.
AfroPoderosas
LimĂłn, Costa Rica & Cuajinicuilapa, MĂ©xico
AfroPoderosas, a new binational initiative, will launch a project that will educate Afro-descendant young women about sexual violence risk reduction and prevention. AfroPoderosas will conduct three community workshops with Black women age 16 to 30 who live in rural communities in Costa Rica and Mexico. They will cover topics such as “conscious menstruation,” self-care, and sexual and reproductive rights and distribute kits with sanitary napkins, contraception, and information on Afro-traditional medicines.
Project:
Empowering My Afro-descendant Body
Colectivo Ilé
Caguas, Puerto Rico
Colectivo Ilé works on leadership development of Black Puerto Rican women. Dedicated to antiracist and decolonial organizing, Colectivo Ilé has an advisory community of 17 Afro-descendant women. Colectivo Ilé will host workshops for adult women of African descent in various regions of Puerto Rico. They will collect oral histories to document the connections between race and gender and sexual violence in Puerto Rico. After the workshops, Colectivo Ilé plans to develop multimedia educational materials that will be used to raise awareness.
Project:
​Workshops Against Sexual Violence: Race and Gender
La COMADRE
Bogotá, Colombia
La COMADRE (CoordinaciĂłn de Mujeres Afrocolombianas Desplazadas en Resistencia) is an organization of Afro-Colombian women victims of armed conflict from various regions of Colombia. Their project will use digital animation to raise awareness about the impact of sexual violence and war on Black women. The video creation process will offer Black girls and women ages 10 to 60 an opportunity to share their stories of sexual violence in a way that contributes to their healing. The animated content is being produced as a pedagogical tool to be disseminated nationally and internationally.
Project:
Raising Awareness about Sexual Violence Experienced by Afro-descendant Black Women through Digital Animation
Revista Afirmativa
Salvador de BahĂa, Brasil
Revista Afirmativa provides journalistic coverage of issues pertaining to social inequality with a focus on race and gender in the Northeast and Amazonian regions of Brazil. They will select 15 journalists and filmmakers to produce a series of multimedia reports that explore sexual violence and toxic masculinity. They will prioritize Black women writers and others from underrepresented groups such as youth, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people, and people from the Northeast and North of Brazil. Once the series is completed, they use the content to host a webinar on Black women and sexual violence.
Project:
Escrevivencia Journalism: Narratives of Black Women Confronting Sexual Violence
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