Homeplace (A Site of Resistance)
"When people no longer have the space to construct homeplace, we cannot build a meaningful community of resistance." - bell hooks
We rely on your monthly contributions so we can fund the stipends, meals, and transport for our youth activists (all of whom are BIPOC students between the ages of 12 and 18) on a consistent basis. Your commitment ensures that they can afford to do the work they love.
Build homeplace with us today – become a monthly sustainer today & donate:
ARISE's Homeplace project is a radical reimagining of how change can be made: not funded by corporations, but by and for our community.
Grant funding is hard to find for work that isn't "exciting": the costs of weekly paychecks, maintenance, etc.
In addition, it’s hard to find funding for more “radical” campaigns – especially CounselorsNotCops. Our organizing is made possible only by your monthly contributions. We rely on that consistent funding in order to act quickly and flexibly against the harmful events that often occur out of the blue.
Changes to oppressive structures will not be funded by the powers-that-be.
Why “Homeplace”?
bell hooks’ concept of “homeplace,” defined as “a site of resistance,” describes the spaces that Black women built to be free of white supremacist logics. “In the midst of oppression and domination,” when even the subconscious is being colonized by logics of capital and white supremacy, homeplaces are critical to learning how to “love and respect ourselves.”
The name “homeplace” affirms and celebrates the lifesaving work done by Black women throughout history to create space for political, ideological liberation, while also recognizing that this work should not and cannot fall only on the shoulders of Black women.
Simultaneously, the name “homeplace” recognizes the need for spaces built by and for minoritized people. Crucial change cannot be made when we’re acting within and limited by white supremacist structures.
We ask for your support in co-constructing a homeplace built on radical love, joy, and care – and $5 donations! – toward our collective liberation.
Fueling Homeplace
A homeplace isn’t a home without a fire to keep it warm. In keeping with our symbol of the phoenix, we invite you to become an ember of our homeplace - embers as a symbol of regeneration and rebirth, as a symbol of warmth (and so of community care), and as a symbol of the radical change we’re enacting against existing oppressive structures (to build anew in their place). Learn more about what it means to become an ember here.
