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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