LGBTQ activists at the intersection of race, place, class, sexuality and so much more working toward racial justice in the South? No, you’re not dreaming. This week, the Better Together Southern Leadership and Action Cohort, a network of eight organizations gathered by Colorlines’ publisher Race Forward, launched We Are the South. It is a photo campaign highlighting the people at the center of this week’s launch. On social media, #WeAretheSouth and #SomosElSur amplified those activists’ experiences.
Here now, a roundup of some of the photos activists shared via wearethesouth.org.
RT @YouthBreakOUT: #WeAreTheSouth #SomosElSur pic.twitter.com/Id54InwtBO #FreedomSide
— Sasha Costanza-Chock (@schock) October 1, 2014
#WeAreTheSouth #SomosElSur pic.twitter.com/I7MIkde5Wt
— BreakOUT! (@YouthBreakOUT) October 1, 2014
Farmworker Immigrant Father. Raised by a Single Mother. Queer, Chicana in the Miss. Delta #WeAreTheSouth #SomosElSur pic.twitter.com/p3tuD0onCY
— Miss. Safe Schools (@MSSafeSchools) October 1, 2014
Image via wearethesouth.org from the Center for Artistic Revolution, a Little Rock, Arkansas, social justice organization.
I was so fortunate to be apart of this camp #QYLTS and to be apart of this campaign #WeAreTheSouth #SomosElSur pic.twitter.com/qlu17Uy0xi
— Natt O. (@_Nat_the_Cat_) October 1, 2014
This photo campaign is important bc We didn't stop work in the 1960s. We kept going! We keep going #WeAreTheSOuth pic.twitter.com/reCnuetvQY
— Paris Hatcher (@parishatcher) October 1, 2014
For more information and to submit your own photo, visit wearethesouth.org, and check out Better Together organizer Paris Hatcher’s Storify of this week’s Tweet chat.