DIRECTORY OF CRIMINAL SYSTEM BAIL FUNDS

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Which Hawks are you today? Stop the video and take a screenshot, then reblog this post with the result!

We've all heard 10 big hot men, but consider: 10 big hot women

This Pride, don’t forget about us

ID: “This Pride remember to respect all trans people : Trans women who don’t shave with a drawing of a woman whit a yellow and pink beard, trans men who don’t bind, masculine trans women and feminine trans men with a drawing of a trans woman with short pink hair wearing a yellow baseball T-shirt holding hands with a trans man with a yellow crop top and short curly blue hair, fat trans people with the drawing of a fat trans woman with short white hair, dark skin and a pink cropped top, disabled trans people with a drawing of a wheelchair and a walking cane in the color of the trans flag, neurodivergent trans people with the symbol of the autistic community, trans people who are sex worker with a drawing of blue bra and pink underwear, poor trans people who can’t afford transition, trans people who aren’t out yet with a drawing of a closed door, trans people who don’t plan on transitioning, black trans people with a black fist holding a trans flag, and any trans people who isn’t white with multiple hands of different skin tones, muslim trans people with a drawing of someone wearing a hijab in the color of the trans flag, jewish trans people with a drawing of someone wearing a white shirt and a kippah in the color of the trans flag, non binary people even those who don’t identify as trans with the non binary flag, those whose identity you might not understand with the genderfluid flag, the agender flag, the demi gender flag and the genderqueer flag, trans people who don’t pass and don’t want to with a drawing of a trans woman with a beard and dark skin raising her fist, every pronouns with dialog box in which are different sets of pronouns, trans people of every identity with the gay flag, the lesbian flag, the ace flag, the bi flag, the pan flag and the aro flag, every trans person is beautiful and deserving of so much love so don’t forget the T.” End ID

P.S. : can someone tell me if I did the image description right cuz I have no idea

FOR THOSE OF YOU PROTESTING

TAKE NOTES FROM HONG KONG AND USE THE BRICKS THAT THE POLICE ARE PLANTING TO INCITE VIOLENCE TO YOUR ADVANTAGE!!

We need to be smarter and stack them up, glue them to the ground, or place them in large patterns to block Police vans from causing more damage.

PLEASE SPREAD TO GET THIS IDEA ROLLING

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donate to black trans groups

the following organizations accept donations via Venmo, PayPal or Cashapp:

Homeless Black Trans Women Fund: supports Black Trans women that live in Atlanta and are sex workers and/or homeless

Trans Justice Funding Project: supports grassroots trans justice groups run by and for trans people, focusing on organizing around racism, economic injustice, transmisogyny, ableism, immigration, and incarceration

Trans(forming): membership-based organization led by trans men, intersex, gender non-conforming people of color, to provide resources and all around transitional support

Black Trans Men Inc.: the first national nonprofit social advocacy organization with a specific focus on empowering Black Transgender men by addressing multi-layered issues of injustice faced at the intersections of racial, sexual orientation, and gender identities

Kween Culture: provides programming towards social and cultural empowerment of transgender women of color

Heaux History Project: a documentary series and archival project exploring Black and Brown erotic labor history and the fight for sex workers’ rights

Tournament Haus Fund: mutual aid fund for protesters and trans/non binary BIPOC in the ballroom scene in Portland/Tacoma/Seattle

Black Excellence Collective Transport for Black NYC LGBTQ+ Protesters: raising funds to provide safe transport for Black LGBTQ+ protesters (NYC)

F2L Relief Fund: provides commissary support (and legal representation & financial assistance) for incarcerated LGBTQ+ and Two-Spirit POC in NY state

Trans Sistas of Color Project Detroit: uplifts, impacts and influences the lives and welfare of transgender women of color in Detroit

Black Trans Protesters Emergency Fund organized by Black Trans Femme in the Arts Collective: supports Black trans protesters with resources like bail and medical care

Black Trans Travel Fund: a mutual aid project developed to provide Black transgender women with the financial resources to self-determine safer alternatives to travel, so they feel less likely to experience verbal harassment or physical harm

Reproductive Justice Access Collective (ReJAC): a New Orleans network that aims to share information, resources, ideas, and human power to create and implement projects in the community that operate within the reproductive justice framework

the following organizations can be donated to individually or all-together via this split donation form that will split your donation amount to equal parts:

Okra Project/Tony McDade and Nina Pop Mental Health Fund: provides Black Trans people with quality mental health & therapy and addresses food security in Black trans communities

For The Gworls: provides assistance to Black trans folks with travel to and from medical facilities, and co-pay assistance for prescriptions and (virtual) office visits ⁣

Third Wave Fund: an activist fund led by and for women of color, intersex, queer, and trans people under 35 years of age to resource the political power, well-being, and self determination of communities of color and low-income communities; rapid response grantmaking, multi-year unrestricted grants, and the Sex Worker Giving Circle

Unique Womens Coalition (Los Angeles, CA): supportive organization for and by transgender people of color, committed to fostering the next generation of black trans leadership through mentorship, scholarship, and community care engagement work

Black Trans Women Inc.: a national nonprofit organization committed to providing the trans-feminine community with programs and resources 

SisTers/Brothers PGH (Pittsburgh, PA): A transgender drop-in space, resource provider and shelter transitioning program

Love Me Unlimited for Life: helps transgender community members reach their goals and fulfill their potential through advocacy and outreach activities

My Sistah’s House Memphis (Memphis, TN): designed to bring about social change within the Trans Community in Memphis by providing a safe meeting space and living spaces for those who are most vulnerable in the LGBTQ+ community

Black LGBTQIA Migrant Project: builds and centers the power of Black LGBTQIA+ migrants through community-building, political education, direct services, and organizing across borders; provides cash assistance to Black LGBTQ+ migrants and first generation people dealing with the impact of COVID-19

Taja’s Coalition at St. James Infirmary (San Francisco/Bay Area): navigating housing, medical services, legal services, and the workplace, as well as regularly training agencies

Marsha P. Johnson Institute: helps employ black trans people, build more strategic campaigns, launch winning initiatives, and interrupt the people who are standing in the way of more being possible in the world for black Trans people

Black & Pink Bail Fund: national prison abolitionist organization dedicated to dismantling the criminal punishment system and the harms caused to LGBTQ+ people and people living with HIV/AIDS who are affected by the system 

Black Visions Collective (MN): healing and transformative justice principles and develops Minnesota’s emerging Black leadership, creating the conditions for long term success and transformation

Middle Tennessee Black and Indigenous Support Fund (Middle, TN): a community fund for Black and Indigenous queer and trans folks to foster wealth redistribution in its larger community, direct the funds to Black and Indigenous community members, and build the leadership of Black and Indigenous community members

SNaPCo (Atlanta, GA): a Black, trans-led collaborative to restore an Atlanta where every person has the opportunity to grow and thrive without facing unfair barriers, especially from the criminal legal system

Brave Space Alliance (Chicago, IL): created to fill a gap in the organizing of and services to trans and gender-nonconforming people on the South and West Sides of Chicago

House of GG: a nonprofit, founded trans activist Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, that is raising money to build a permanent home for Transgender people  and be part of a growing network of Southern trans people who are working for social justice

TGI Justice Project: a group of transgender, gender variant and intersex people inside and outside of prisons, jails and detention centers challenging and ending human rights abuses committed against TGI people in California prisons, jails, detention centers

Trans Women of Color Collective: creates revolutionary change by uplifting the narratives, leadership, and lived experience of trans people of color

Youth Breakout (New Orleans, LA): seeks to end the criminalization LGBTQ youth to build a safer and more just New Orleans, organizing with youth ages 13-25 who are directly impacted by the criminal justice system

Translash: a trans-led project uses the power of individual stories to help save trans lives, shifting the cultural understanding of what it means to be transgender, especially during a time of social backlash, to foster inclusion and decrease anti-trans hostility

TRANScending Barriers:  empowers the transgender and gender non-conforming community in Georgia through community organizing with leadership building, advocacy, and direct services

My Sistah’s House: a trans-led nonprofit providing first hand experience and field research to create a one-stop shop for finding doctors, social groups and safe spaces for the trans community, providing emergency shelter, access to sexual health services, and social services

TAKE Birmingham: focuses on discrimination in the workplace, housing advocacy, support for sex workers, providing trans-friendly services, and working to alleviate the many other barriers that TWOC face

Dem Bois: provides charitable economical aid for female to male, FTM, trans-masculine identified person(s) of color ages 21 years old and older for them to obtain chest reconstruction surgery, and or genital reassignment surgery

G.L.I.T.S: approaches the health and rights crises faced by transgender sex workers

Emergency Release Fund (NYC): aims to ensure that no trans person at risk in New York City jails remains in detention before trial; pays cash bails

HEARD: Helping Educate to Advance the Rights of Deaf Communities: supports deaf, hard of hearing, deafblind, deafdisabled, and disabled people at every stage of the criminal legal system process, up to and including during and after incarceration

Black Trans Advocacy Coalition COVID-19 Community Response Grant: works daily to end discrimination and inequities faced in health, employment, housing and education to improve the lived experience of transgender people

Princess Janae Place: provides referrals to housing for chronically homeless LGBTQ adults in the New York Tri-state area, with direct emphasis on Trans/GNC people of color

The Transgender District: aims to stabilize and economically empower the transgender community through ownership of homes, businesses, historic and cultural sites, and safe community spaces

Assata’s Daughters (Chicago, IL): Black woman-led; organizes young Black people in Chicago by providing them with political education, leadership development, mentorship, and revolutionary services

Collective Action for Safe Spaces: A grassroots organization that uses comprehensive, community-based solutions through an intersectional lens to eliminate public gendered harassment and assault in the DC area.

The Knights and Orchids Society (TKO) work for justice and equality through group economics, education, leadership development, and organizing cultural work throughout rural areas in Alabama

The Outlaw Project (Phoenix, AZ): prioritizes the leadership of people of color, transgender women, gender non-binary and migrants for sex worker rights

WeCare TN (Memphis, TN): Supports trans women of color 

Community Ele'te (Richmond, VA): provides safe sex awareness and education, linkage to resources, emergency housing assistance

TAJA’s Coalition (San Francisco, CA): ending violence against Black Trans women and Trans women of color 

Black Trans Task Force: intersectional, multi-generational project of community building, research, and political action addressing the crisis of violence against Black Trans people in the Seattle-Tacoma area

The Transgender District: stabilize and economically empower the transgender community through ownership of homes, businesses, historic and cultural sites, and safe community spaces

Black Trans Media (Brooklyn, NY): #blacktranseverything storytellers, organizers, poets, healers, filmmakers, facilitators that confront racism and transphobia

Garden of Peace, Inc. (Pittsburgh, PA): for black trans & queer youth, elevates and empowers the narratives and lived experiences of black youth and their caretakers, guides revolutionary spaces of healing and truth through art, education, and mentorship

House of Pentacles (Durham, NC): Film Training Program and Production House designed to launch Black trans youth into the film industry and tell stories woven at the intersection of being Black and Trans

Minnesota Transgender Health Coalition (Minneapolis, MN): committed to improving health care access and the quality of health care received by trans and gender non-conforming people through education, resources, and advocacy

RARE Productions (Minneapolis, MN): arts and entertainment media production company for LGBTQ people of color that promotes, produces, and co-creates opportunities and events utilizing innovative artistic methods and strategies

Baltimore Safe Haven (Baltimore, MD): providing opportunities for a higher quality of life for transgender people in Baltimore

Transgender Emergency Fund of Massachusetts: recently helped organize a Trans Resistance Vigil and March through Boston, in place of the Boston Pride Parade that was cancelled due to COVID-19

Semillas: in Puerto Rico, the trans, gender non-conforming and queer communities are facing many obstacles to survival

Street Youth Rise Up: change the way Chicago sees and treats its homeless and street based youth who do what they have to do to survive

I swear if I hear another white man tell me how “people are inherently greedy and selfish in nature & there’s nothing you can do about it ‘cause it’s biology”, I’ll start throwing punches… and like it’s always white privileged men trying to justify their own shitty behaviour…  it’s like listening to the initial conclusion of the Stanford prison experiment all over again

Community Bail Funds / Jail Support

i love seeing the boosting of bail funds for protesters that are going around right now. i wanted to share a list of (US) community bail funds that are always in need of donations and support. please consider making small, regular donations to a bail fund local to you in order to support your community fight an unjust, corrupt legal system. and please share!

(full directory is here and i’ve specified whether the fund is for pre-trial or immigration services, if the name of the fund doesn’t already do that!)

National

Haitian Immigrant Bond Assistance Project (immigration)

LGBTQ Freedom Fund (immigration)

Alabama

Mongomery Bail Out Fund (pre-trial)

Etowah Freedom Fund (immigration)

Arizona

Tucson Second Chance Community Bail Fund (pre-trial)

Pima Monthly Meeting Immigration Bond Fund (immigration)

California (all immigration)

Al Otro Lado Vida Libre Bond Fund - Southern California 

Bay Area Immigration Bond Fund - State-wide

Familias Reunidas Immigration Bond Fund - San Diego area

Freedom for Immigrants Bond Fund - Adelanto Only

ICIJ Bond Fund - Inland Empire

Immigrant Families Defense Fund- Alameda County

Orange County Justice Fund - Orange County 

NorCal Resist Sacramento Region Bond Fund

San Diego Immigrant Rights Consortium Borderlands Get Free Fund - Southern California

Colorado

Colorado Freedom Fund (pre-trial)

Immigration Freedom Fund of Colorado  

Connecticut

Connecticut Bail Fund (pre-trial)

Immigrant Bail Fund

Florida

LGBTQ Freedom Fund (pre-trial, also serves other states)

Georgia

Georgia Immigration Bond Fund

Hawaii

Hawaii Community Bail Fund (pre-trial)

Illinois

Champaign County Bailout Coalition (pre-trial)

Chicago Community Bond Fund (pre-trial)

Iowa

Eastern Iowa Community Bond Project (immigration)

Kentucky

Louisville Community Bail Fund (pre-trial)

3R Fund for Immigrants

Louisiana

New Orleans Safety & Freedom Fund (pre-trial)

YWCA Greater Baton Rouge Community Bail Fund (pre-trial)

Freedom for Immigrants Bond Fund

Massachusetts

Massachusetts Bail Fund (pre-trial)

Beyond Bail & Legal Defense Fund (immigration)

Michigan

Kent County Immigration Bond for Our Neighbor’s Defense Fund 

Minnesota

Minnesota Freedom Fund (pre-trial & immigration)

Missouri

Kansas City Community Bail Fund (pre-trial)

Race Matters Friends Community Bail Fund - Columbia, MO (pre-trial)

Reale Justice Community Bail Fund - Kansas City, MO (pre-trial)

Nevada

Vegas Freedom Fund (pre-trial)

Las Vegas Family Unity Bond Fund - Arriba Las Vegas Workers Center (immigration)

New Hampshire

NH Conference UCC Immigrant and Refugee Support Group Immigrant Bond & Support Fund 

New Jersey

First Friends of NJ & NY (immigration)

New Mexico

Fronterizo Fianza Fund (immigration)

New York

Emergency Release Fund - New York City (pre-trial)

OAR of Tompkins County Bail Fund (pre-trial)

Syracuse Jail Ministry (pre-trial)

LIFE Bond Fund (New Sanctuary Coalition) (immigration)

New York Immigrant Freedom Fund (Brooklyn Community Bail Fund)

North Carolina

Alamance County Community Bail Fund (pre-trial)

Forsyth County Community Bail Fund (pre-trial)

North Carolina Community Bail Fund of Durham (pre-trial) 

Ohio

3R Fund for Immigrants

Oregon

Portland Freedom Fund (pre-trial)

Pennsylvania

Bukit Bail Fund of Pittsburgh (pre-trial)

Dauphin County Bail Fund (pre-trial)

Philadelphia Community Bail Fund (pre-trial)

Philadelphia Bail Fund (pre-trial)

Community Fund for Bond and Legal Support (immigration)

Rhode Island

AMOR Bond Fund (immigration)

Tennessee

Hamilton County Community Bail Fund (pre-trial)

Memphis Community Bail Fund (pre-trial)

Nashville Community Bail Fund (pre-trial)

Texas

Luke 4:18 Bail Fund (pre-trial)

Fronterizo Fianza Fund - El Paso area (immigration)

Hutto Community Deportation Defense & Bond Fund - Austin area (Hutto)

RAICES Texas Bond Fund - state-wide TX (immigration)

Vermont

Vermont Freedom Bail Fund (immigration)

Virginia

Richmond Community Bail Fund (pre-trial)

Roanoke Community Bail Fund  (pre-trial)

Cville Immigrant Freedom Fund 

Washington

Northwest Community Bail Fund (pre-trial)

Fair Fight Immigrant Bond Fund

Wisconsin

Free the 350 Bail Fund (pre-trial)