National LGBTQ Leadership and Aging Award Recipient, Katherine Acey

BCRW Senior Activist Fellow Katherine Acey is being honored at this year’s Creating Change Conference in Chicago for her organizing on aging issues impacting LGBTQ people, particularly LGBTQ people of color. We are honored to work with such an incredible movement leader.

To honor her steadfast work in fighting for equity and justice for LGBTQ elders, Katherine Acey was presented with the Sage National LGBTQ Leadership and Aging Award. Acey has been a leader in movement building and organizing for social justice and LGBTQ liberation from her 23 years at Astrea Lesbian Foundation for Justice to her ongoing involvement with the Griot Circle. Acey has been dedicated to various organizations that are powerful sites of support, engagement, and activism for the rights and wellbeing of LGBTQ folks who face racial, economic, gender, and age oppressions. Her extensive involvement in social justice organizing extends to groups such as: Women in the Arts, the Center for Anti-Violence Education, New York Women Against Rape, MADRE and Women Make Movies, National Executive Committee of the Palestine Solidarity Committee, and the Arab Women’s Gathering Organizing Committee.

In recognizing the legacy and continued importance of Black feminism as central and informative for collective action, Acey also acknowledges the interconnected nature of movements fighting against anti-semitism, for immigration reform, and towards Palestinian liberation. For Acey, intergenerational movement building is an important aspect of organizing for the empowerment and self-determination of LGBTQ elders.Cross-generational exchange continues to be a crucial aspect of seeking transformative justice in activist efforts centralizing the livelihood and wellbeing of LGBTQ communities. Acey has shown a passion for organizing at the community level for transformation at the structural level to undo the systems by which LGBTQ elders face legal, social, economic, and racial inequities.

For Acey, activism is a practice that is rooted in radical love and motivated by visions of collective liberation.

To hear Acey’s story of the deeply personal experience of coming up as a lesbian and feminist in the wake of the Combahee River Collective Statement, watch below.

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