Support Black, Brown, and Indigenous queer & trans led land & wellness projects.

The mural pictured was painted by Rafa Tarín on the Peñasco Theater Collective Building in Peñasco, NM.

Because we know the impact of colonization on people, land and resources we’re encouraging our white listeners (who have extra funds) to engage in an ongoing process of reparations. If you're able please donate to projects founded and led by queer & trans Black, Brown, and Indigenous folks. The following is a list of projects across what is currently known as the U.S. we are asking folks to support. We check in with organizations and projects before posting to get consent uplifting these fundraisers in our podcast episodes and here on the website.

 

Black Appalachian Young & Rising

A Black-led program of the STAY Project. STAY (which stands for Stay Together Appalachian Youth) is a central Appalachian regional network of youth 14-30 working to create sustainable, equitable communities where young folks can and want to stay!

Black Soil: Our Better Nature

Works to reconnect Black Kentuckians to their heritage and legacy in agriculture. They represent over 60 Kentucky based Black farmers, culinary artists, value added product makers, artists/makers & are raising funds to match a foundation’s donation.

Build a Black led regenerative Farm

Kiley is a Black queer woman who is fundraising to start a farm on the west coast “where Queer folx can get their hands in the dirt, where our communities can thrive, laugh, and be fed.”

 

Disability Justice Work at the People’s Hub

A nonprofit that offers live, interactive trainings and workshops to build community power and support grassroots work.

FrontLine Farming

is a Denver, CO based Womxn & POC-led grassroots nonprofit that focuses on building food sovereignty & farmer liberation. FLF works from an asset-based perspective to “feed our communities with healthy, affordable produce grown from our 5 acres of land, educate our constituents, create equitable policies, and honor the land and our ancestors.”

In response to COVID-19, FLF started an initiative called Project Protect Food Systems that seeks to support immigrant food workers across the nation by raising funds to provide PPE, proposing and advocating for equitable policy action, raising awareness of Food Worker strengths and plights, and illuminating Food Workers contributions to our society.

Healing & Housing for Black Womxn after Bail

The RESIST Campaign is a vision led by formerly incarcerated Black womxn. Their goal is to ethically find and steward Indigenous land, to build a green, sustainable nest – ultimately creating a space for formerly incarcerated Black womxn – who include caregivers, sex workers, and mothers – to hold, nurture, and heal themselves and their sisters in experience & struggle

 

Maroon Grove Freedom Farm

Located in so called Waverly, VA / Nottoway territory, on Black liberated land that was bought with reparations. The farm will provide plant medicine and food as medicine to queer and trans BIPOC communities.

The farm is collecting ongoing reparations and donations to make repairs and updates to create a thriving community for QTBIPOC:

Venmo: @jas-battle
CashApp: $jasbattle
PayPal: paypal.me/jasbattle

My Sistahs House

A grassroots, direct services and advocacy organization that was founded in 2016 by two trans women of color who sought to bridge a gap in services for trans and queer people of color in Memphis, TN.

They currently have a 6 bedroom house that serves as emergency housing for TGNC people of color, and they are fundraising to build 20 tiny homes for trans women – expanding on their housing security work!

 

Reunion: Family & Black Land Stewardship

Melisse Watson is a Black indigenous queer non binary artist from Tkaronto, Dish with One Spoon wampum territory. They are raising money to buy land in Georgia where their birth father’s family has lived for generations – for the purposes of land regeneration, building community with Black and Indigenous farmers and earth workers, working towards land sovereignty, and protecting and restoring the land, reclaiming it from the state.

If you’d like to support by offering building materials or support, equipment and more email melissewatson@gmail.com

Support Miguel Mendías in reclaiming his family’s 4th generation Mexican-American adobe home

in the high desert of Marfa, TX (unceded Jumano-Apache territory). Miguel is a queer, trans, artist and activist of Czech, Basque, and Raramúri Tarahumara (indigenous Mexican) descent. The house, which belonged to his great-grandmother, was threatened with public auction by the county and is in a remote part of Texas that has experienced rapid gentrification.

 

White Mountain Apache Tribe’s Covid-19 Relief Fund

The White Mountain Apache Tribe COVID-19 relief fund has been established to help with the immediate needs of the community. Charitable donations made to the White Mountain Apache Tribe is deductible under Section 7871(a) of the Internal Service Code. A written acknowledgement of donations will be provided upon request.

 
 

Support Narrators!

Help country queers survive and thrive in rural communities by supporting the art, farms, creative projects, and businesses of country queers we’ve had the pleasure of meeting along the way!

 

  • Jonah from Connecticut made a great film documenting queer farmers in the U.S. called Out Here and now farms full time at Milkweed Farm in Guilford, Vermont.

Oral History Projects:

 

  • LGBTQ Oral History Hub hosts an AMAZING list of links to dozens of queer oral history projects compiled by the Digital Collaboratory.

  • The Digital Transgender Archive The purpose of the DTA is to increase the accessibility of transgender history by providing an online hub for digitized historical materials, born-digital materials, and information on archival holdings throughout the world.

  • The Tretter Transgender Oral History Project (TTOHP) is committed to collecting, preserving, and making available oral histories of gender transgression, broadly understood through a trans framework. Check out their new podcast Transcripts – about how trans people are remaking the world!!!

  • Louisiana Trans Oral History Project entirely trans-led oral history project! Check out their audio excerpts online.

  • Invisible Histories Project is designed to be a repository of LGBTQ+ history in Alabama and the southeast.

Organizations:

 

  • The STAY Project (Stay Together Appalachian Youth) : regional network of Central Appalachian youth, 14-30, working towards a more sustainable and inclusive future in the mountains

  • Out in the Open based in Brattleboro, Vermont supports rural LGBTQ+ communities in becoming stronger, healthier, and more visible .

  • Rural Organizing Project the Rural Organizing Project uses values-based organizing to advance a progressive vision of democracy in Oregon, with a focus on Democracy & Civic Participation, Immigrant Fairness, LGBTQ Justice, Economic Justice, and the Cost of War.

  • Appalshop and WMMT 88.7fm – Appalshop is a 50 year old art, media, and culture center in the heart of central Appalachia. The organization includes a youth media training program, community theater branch, archive, filmmakers union, community organizing efforts, and a community radio station broadcasting the voices of mountain people.

  • The Highlander Center is a catalyst for grassroots organizing and movement building in Appalachia and the South. They work with people fighting for justice, equality and sustainability, supporting their efforts to take collective action to shape their own destiny.

  • Scalawag Magazine just go read everything they publish about the South because it’ll be incredible.

  • Press On a Southern collective for movement journalism.