Our Values

We unapologetically uphold these core values in our practice. They define who we are, how we show up, and how we pursue our mission and vision. 

We are firmly committed to our values and invite our friends, members, partners, and supporters to practice them as well. 

1. We are community first. We will not compromise the community's need to appease any individual, group, or institution. We hold the agency and self-determination of our partner communities above all other interests.

2. We do not glorify poverty or engage in deficit framing of communities; we believe that communities have the nonnegotiable right to be represented with dignity in ways that are authentic to them.

3. We recognize and hold space for generational trauma, community trauma, and the pain we carry from our histories as a global community. We recognize that we both suffer injustice and benefit from current systems of oppression in our intersectional identities.

4. We are anti-colonialist. We intentionally fight to stop the perpetuation of colonialist and imperialist practices domestically and globally. We work with communities to reconcile and heal from the harmful remnants of colonialism in formerly colonized communities.

5. We do not subscribe to the “zero-sum” game or limited resource mentality which causes competition between social movements; we use our platform to make other causes more visible, reverberate the messages of other movements, build coalitions to amplify our collective power, and pursue solidarity among social causes.

6. We work toward achieving collective liberation. We celebrate and support the pursuit of racial justice, climate justice, disability justice, post-colonial global justice, gender justice, and movements in line with liberating marginalized identities and dismantling oppression.