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Resources
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Grassroots Law Project: Stand with Bre #Justice for Breonna Taylor #SayHerName
Sign the petition & make calls. Check back here for the latest ways you can help.
ATHLETE ACTIVISM RESOURCES
- Read Olympic athlete Gwendolyn Barry’s “Sports, Politics, Protest—and the Olympics” letter here
- Watch Gwendolyn Barry: Why the Olympics Punished me for Protesting, NY Times Opinion piece
- Burn it All Down Podcast
- Wyomia Tyus Track Legend & Actions in the ’68 Olympics
- Buy Tigerbelle, The Wyomia Tyus Story
- Maya Moore & Athletes in Action; Follow @MayaMoore
- Join the Maya Moore Academy
- Ibtihaj Muhammad: U.S. Olympic athlete and change agent
- Support the Brenda Villa Foundation for increasing water safety and expanding diversity in aquatic sports
- Girls Leading Girls, a non profit that trains girls and women in leadership through soccer
- Inspire Girls Football
- Join the Women’s Sports Foundation Equity Project. Sign the Equity Pledge here
- Colin Kaepernick’s Know Your Rights Camp
- https://kaepernick7.com/Black Girls Swim and Black Kids Swim
- We Coach Sports: dedicated to the recruitment, advancement, and retention of women coaches
- Global Sports Matters: Black Athlete Activism
- Public Books: Black Athletes, Black Activism
ANTI-RACISM RESOURCES
- Talking About Race, National Museum of African American History & Culture
- San Jose Public Library #BlackLivesMatter Reading list
- AAM: “Racism, Unrest, and The Role of the Museum Field”Black Museums Directory
- Harrassment Intervention Training
- Support Assatasdaughters , a Black woman-led, young person-directed organization rooted in the Black Radical Tradition
- Support @SeeBlack Women
- United We Dream, The Largest Immigrant Youth-Led Network
- Equal Justice Initiative: Led by Bryan Stevenson
- Stand with Standing Rock
ANTI-RACISM RESOURCES FOR FAMILIES
BLACK LED LGBTQIA ORGANIZATIONS AND TRANS ORGANIZATIONS
The Audre Lorde Project
A Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Two Spirit, Trans, and Gender Non-Conforming People of Color center for community organizing, focusing on the New York City area. Through mobilization, education and capacity-building, we work for community wellness and progressive social and economic justice. Donate here.
Trans Justice Funding Project
Community-led funding initiative to support grassroots trans justice groups run by and for trans people. Donate here.
SNaPCo
Builds power of black trans and queer people to force systemic divestment from the prison industrial complex and invest in community support. Donate here.
Black AIDS Institute
Working to end the black HIV epidemic through policy, advocacy, and high-quality direct HIV services. Donate here.
Trans Cultural District
The world’s first-ever legally recognized trans district, which aims to stabilize and economically empower the trans community. Donate here.
LGBTQ+ Freedom Fund
Posts bail for LGBTQ people held in jail or immigrant detention and raises awareness of epidemic of LGBTQ overincarceration. Donate here.
House of GG
Creating safe transformative spaces for community to heal and nurturing them into tomorrow’s leaders, focusing on trans women of color in the south. Donate here.
Youth Breakout
Works to end criminalization of LGBTQ youth in New Orleans to build a safer and more just community. Donate here.
Transgender Gender-Variant & Intersex Justice Project (TGIJP)
A group of transgender, gender variant, and intersex people—inside and outside of prisons, jails and detention centers—creating a united family in the struggle for survival and freedom. Donate here.
The Okra Project
Collective that seeks to address the global crisis faced by black trans people by bringing home-cooked meals and resources to the community. Donate here.
The Black Trans Travel Fund
A mutual-aid project developed in order to help provide Black transgender women with the financial resources needed to be able to self-determine safer alternatives to travel, where women feel less likely to experience verbal harassment or physical harm. Donate here.
BlackTransConnection
Helping exclusively Black Trans, non-cisgender AND/OR Intersex individuals with funding/fundraising and also sexual education to live their best life.
BlackTransMedia
Trans Women of Color Collective
TWOCC’s Visibility Campaigns serves as a vehicle to raise awareness of the lived experiences of transwomen of color.
Trans Women of Color Collective
A collective that seeks to address the global crisis faced by Black Trans people by bringing home cooked, healthy, and culturally specific meals and resources to Black trans people wherever we can reach them.
Marsha P. Johnson Institute
The Marsha P. Johnson Institute (MPJI) protects and defends the human rights of Black transgender people.
ADDITIONAL LGBTQI+ SERVICES
- Outright Project: Human rights for LGBTIQ people everywhere
- Billy DeFrank LGBTQ+ Community Center, San José
- The Audre Lorde Project
- Lyon-Martin Health Services, San Francisco
- The Trevor Project
- Gender Justice LA
- The LGBTQ Youth Space
- PFLAG San Jose
- Transfamily Support Group of Santa Clara County
- Gender Spectrum
- Family Acceptance Project
- Somos Familia
- API Family Pride
ABILITY / DISABILITY
- Eli Wolff: Director of Power Sport Lab and co-founder Disability in Sport International, Athletes for Human Rights, the Olympism Project, and Mentoring for Change, and the Sport and Society initiatives at Brown University.
- Dr. Mary Hums, University of Louisville
- Coach Stephanie Wheeler, U of Illinois
- Adaptive Sports, Dr. Okanlami, University of Michigan
- All In Sports Consulting, Dawna Callahan
- Angel City Sports: Sports programming for kids, adults & veterans with physical disabilities or visual impairments.
