Organizations

• Affinity Community Services - A Black led, queer led organization on Chicago’s South Side dedicated to social justice in Black LGBTQ+ communities.
• Assata’s Daughters - A Black woman-led, young person-directed organization rooted in the Black radical tradition that organizes young Black people in Chicago through political education, leadership development, mentorship, and revolutionary services.
• Black Lives Matter Chicago (BLM Chi) - An intersectional vehicle that values Black people and their right to self-determination. BLM Chi fights for justice with families most impacted, while working to create just and equitable systems.
• Brave Space Alliance - The first Black-led, trans-led LGBTQ+ Center located on the South Side of Chicago, dedicated to creating and providing affirming, culturally competent resources, programming, and services for LGBTQ+ individuals on the South and West Sides of the city.
• BYP100 - A national, member-based organization of Black 18- to 35-year-old activists and organizers, dedicated to creating justice and freedom for all Black people.
• Good Kids, Mad City - Develops young leaders to advocate for resources that will allow them to create sustainable, livable community conditions, as well as providing tools to address both mental and physical trauma.
• Interrupting Criminalization - An initiative led by researchers Mariame Kaba and Andrea J. Ritchie that aims to interrupt and end the growing criminalization and incarceration of women and LGBTQ people of color.
• A Long Walk Home - A national art organization based in Chicago that empowers young people to end violence against girls and women.
• MPD150 - A participatory, horizontally-organized effort by local organizers, researchers, artists, and activists to shift the discussion around police and policing in Minneapolis from one of procedural reforms to one of meaningful structural change.
• Showing Up for Racial Justice - A national organization that brings hundreds of thousands of white people into fights for racial and economic justice.
• Southerners on New Ground - A home for LGBTQ liberation across all lines of race, class, abilities, age, culture, gender, and sexuality in the South.

Recommended Reading & Materials

• #AbolitionReadings: Selected Articles by MPD150
• BYP100: Agenda to Build Black Futures
• Defund CPD Community Conversation Toolkit by Defund CPD Campaign
• #DefundPolice Toolkit by Interrupting Criminalization
• Trans Wellness Resources by Brave Space Alliance

What’s Next? Safer and More Just Communities Without Policing by Interrupting Criminalization