Act in Solidarity With The Lazy Black Femme Collective
“It is our duty to fight for our freedom.
It is our duty to win.
We must love each other and support each other.
We have nothing to lose but our chains.”
― Assata Shakur, Assata: An Autobiography
Karibu! Sanibona! Akwaaba! Mesiere! Salaam Alaykum! Welcome!
Habari Gani?
Umoja (Unity). Ujima (Collective Work). Ujamaa (Cooperative Economics)
We are the Lazy Black Femme Collective. We are a worker-owned, democratically controlled arts collective created to explore the misconceptions of the “lazy Black femme” and illuminate the labor Black femmes do without recognition or compensation. Additionally, we affirm and fund Black femmes who face shame for resting, not working, or working at our own pace. We also decenter productivity and reimagine bodies without disposability. We hope to reclaim our existence and create alternative and empowering ways to view ourselves, reparations, and the term “lazy.”
Our philosophy is informed by the work of Audre Lorde, Angela Davis, bell hooks, the Combahee River Collective and other critical theorists that write about the intersectionality of being femme and Black in a capitalist society. We also take into account anti- colonial, anti-capitalist texts that speak on the sociopolitical experience of the worker under inhumane market conditions.
We are creating this fundraiser to sustain our Lazy Black Femme Emergency Fund and several social enterprises organized by our members. These include but are not limited to: a jewelry enterprise, a reparations bag and clothing enterprise, a social justice curriculum enterprise, LGBTQI migrant healing circles, a blog exploring labor, a susu lending circle, Queer Femme of Color healing circles, Black femme healing circles, undocuBlack femme healing circles and a blog celebrating Queer People of Color and Women of Color in Hiphop.
It is important for accomplices to be in solidarity with us because there is an escalated attack on our existence and in order for us to survive and thrive, (and mother earth and society as a result) there needs to be a radical, revolutionary, redistribution of resources.
We hope you can act in financial solidarity with us as we work towards a more just and egalitarian world. Community members in solidarity with us will have the option to receive a “Stop The Devaluation of Feminized Jobs” sticker.
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In Unity,
The LBF Collective Team
