FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Farah Tanis, 646-263-1050 | Ftanis@blueprintny.org Ericka Dixon, 917-685-9687 | Ericka@blueprintny.org Black Women Converge at Atlanta HBCU to Resist Trump Cuts April 29 - 30, 2017 Spelman College - Black Women’s Blueprint and the Women’s Research and Resource Center will convene the Words of Fire Conference with a focus on Gender, Power and a Black Feminist Call for Social Justice. More than 1200 grassroots activists, artists and academics of

“What woman here is so enamored of her own oppression that she cannot see her heelprint upon another woman's face? What woman's terms of oppression have become precious and necessary to her as a ticket into the fold of the righteous, away from the cold winds of self-scrutiny?” ― Audre Lorde, The Uses of Anger: Women Responding to Racism Black Women’s Blueprint stands in solidarity with Muslim and immigrant women and their families who have been impacted by the recently impose

Black Women’s Blueprint Ushers in the New Year Happy Birthday Ms. Recy Taylor! On December 31st, Recy Taylor celebrated her 97th birthday. At Black Women’s Blueprint we know how important it is to celebrate all our elders everyday they are with us. Farah Tanis was able to visit Recy in her Alabama home and everyone at the BWB family wishes Recy light, love and peace on this special occasion. Recy Taylor remains an inspiration and guiding light for us in our anti-violence,

1. Black Women’s Blueprint was in Washington D.C. This Week! Farah Tanis and Sevonna Brown travelled to Washington D.C. on Monday to meet with the Department of Justice, Just Beginnings Collaborative and Office of Violence Against Women to discuss how we will end Child Sexual Abuse under the current and the next presidential administrations. BWB is honored to be a grantee of Just Beginnings Collaborative, and part of a consortium of organizations fighting to end CSA. Read

1. Visioning Resistance: a Black Feminist Call to Action. Last Monday, Black Women's Blueprint was honored to be in community with over 50 of our members. We began the evening with a visualization practice and went through a process of calling out the ways we have been ever-sustaining and resilient in times of trauma and highly climatic socio-political moments. We discussed embodying resistance and emboldening ourselves to step into our power as we approach 2017. This moment

​1. Visioning Resistance: a Black Feminist Call to Action TONIGHT: Black Women’s Blueprint invites you to our monthly member meeting tonight at 6:30pm. Tonight we will be creating a blueprint for resistance that honors all of the expressions of Blackness and the many identities that will be impacted under the new presidential regime. We will be envisioning answers to the following questions How will we resist? How do we envision black feminism creating revolution inside o

One day until #GivingTuesday! On Tuesday November 29th, every donation to Black Women’s Blueprint will be matched up to $5,000! Your donation will empower us as Black women and girls to tell our truths and continue the work of our Truth and Reconciliation Commission, to access the healing that Black survivors of sexual and state violence deserve, to fight for justice by mobilizing as survivors as experts in our own lives to effect policy change multiple levels, and finally, t

#AndStillWeRise Use this hashtag with us to celebrate to resilience and brilliance of Black women as we move forward post-election period with the integrity and grace that we have always possessed from our foremothers. How do you rise? Share it with us! Feeling Paralyzed? Pledge Your Support for BWB on #GivingTuesday, two weeks from today. If you are anything like us, it has been difficult to get out of bed, let alone make a plan for action or connect with those around us. Th

1. You must let the pain visit. 2. You must allow it teach you 3. You must not allow it overstay. (Three routes to healing) - Ijeoma Umebinyuo, Questions for Ada Photo source: http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/video/young-black-woman-on-wooden-boat-dock-she-looks-stock-video-footage/472903806 You are precious. They will never say this enough to you, Black girl. I say it neither to erase what’s been hard nor to ignore the reasons you don't believe you are but to give you

10 Things to Know This Week: 1. The family of Sandra Bland, the 28 year old Black woman who was found hanged in her Texas jail cell on July 13th 2015, reached a $1.9million settlement in a wrongful death civil suit. The settlement also includes a change in prison policies of the Waller County jail where Bland was located, however, this part of the settlement is still in contention. Read more here. 2. The officer who shot and killed Korryn Gains, a 23 year old Black woman,

"Every woman has a well-stocked arsenal of anger potentially useful against those oppressions, personal and institutional, which brought that anger into being. Focused with precision it can become a powerful source of energy serving progress and change. And when I speak of change, I do not mean a simple switch of positions or a temporary lessening of tensions, nor the ability to smile or feel good. I am speaking of a basic and radical alteration in those assumptions underl

1. On Monday September 12th, BWB hosted a Black Healing Space at the Museum of Women’s Resistance where members were able to engage in a communal and individual healing activities. 2. On Tuesday, September 13th, BWB launched a petition: President Obama - Recognize Black Women Survivors of Sexual Assault. We need 100,000 signatures! Sign here and read the full open letter on our mama black blog here! 3. On Tuesday September 13th, the family of Korryn Gains filed a wrongful de

We, the undersigned women of African descent across ethnicities including anti-violence advocates, survivors, activists, scholars, organizational, and spiritual leaders who convened the first Black Women’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission on Sexual Violence in 2016, wish to address the President of the United States, Barack Hussein Obama. Dear Mr. President, “I just want him to know who I am.” This is what 96 year old Recy Taylor, a civil rights leader who worked with Ros