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After years of dedicated work toward building a safer, more just world in the greater DC area, CASS will sunset by March 31, 2025.
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Dear Community,
With deep gratitude and careful reflection, we share an important update about the future of Collective Action for Safe Spaces (CASS). 1/9
Over the next few months, we will focus on winding down operations with transparency and care while also uplifting the work of aligned organizations that continue to fight for the safety, dignity, and liberation of Black trans, queer, and non-binary people. 8/9
We keep us safe is a battle cry we hear often in the movement. But what happens when a group of Black trans women are harmed by a movement org that promised to keep them safe?
For several years, there were multiple Black trans women enduring harm & abuse in a local sw-er org 👇🏾
Join us on next Wednesday, June 12th from 6-8PM ET for a virtual session with some of the survivors, The Survivor Support Fund, and pod networks to hear our reflections on the journey, and to invite folks to take more action for Black trans survivors. RSVP below & in bio!
We will also debut our digital guide that archives the strategies we used, lessons we learned, impact we had on survivors, tensions we’re still grappling with, and what we recommend others do to create their own survivor support efforts.
Register here! us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi…
Is somebody gonna match our heat?? ❤️🔥
Our small squad is gearing up for an active summer, so we are still welcoming applications to join our board 👇🏾
Application link here - docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…
we also want to hold space for the untimely deaths our community faced last year. Pictured from top left to bottom right: A’nee, Louraca Jackson, Skylar Harrison Reeves, Jasmine Star Mack, & Aida Fitzgerald 🙏🏾
We uplift these women and their legacies, and hold them in our hearts
Needless to say, 2023 was a doozy. And while we’re nearing the halfway mark of 2024, we still find significance in honoring this journey through an archival of how we made it through. Molting Amidst Wildfire depicts how CASS continues to shed layers as we endure the unplanned,+
strengthen our anti-hierarchy praxis, providing material resources to Palestinian organizing, distributing $9K to local Black trans women, creating an org-wide conflict transformation process+guide for a DC-based union, and developing a new multi-year cultural organizing project
