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Queer Dreams and Nonprofit Blues

Queer Dreams and Nonprofit Blues

 \ Queer Dreams and Nonprofit Blues

BCRW and The Engaging Tradition Project co-convened a conference called Queer Dreams and Non-Profit Blues to examine the critiques emerging from queer and feminist activists and scholars about the impact of funding on social movement agendas and formations. During the conference, Hope Dector from BCRW and Dean Spade from The Engaging Tradition Project conducted interviews with many of the speakers about their analysis and strategies related to the conference themes. These interviews were edited into 30 short videos that aim to bring these critical perspectives into an accessible format for use in activist spaces and classrooms. These videos highlight the type of knowledge production that is possible when the boundaries between activism and the academy are actively traversed.

Building a Powerful Grassroots HIV/AIDS Movement

July 18, 2019

JD Davids, Che Gossett, Imani Henry, and Jason Walker discuss what it looks like to build a truly grassroots movement around HIV/AIDS that centers the people most impacted.

Who Leads the Fight Against HIV/AIDS?

July 18, 2019

Che Gossett, Jason Walker, and Imani Henry discuss how professionalization of the fight against HIV/AIDS leaves out the people most impacted.

Social Service Or Social Change: Building Political Power for People with HIV/AIDS

July 18, 2019

Che Gossett, Jason Walker, and Imani Henry offer a view of how nonprofitization of the fight against HIV/AIDS created a divide between service provision and movements for social change.

N’Tanya Lee: Grassroots Organizing Builds Power

June 26, 2019

N'Tanya Lee discusses why base-building is fundamental to all social justice work and the need for a new left with a vision for longterm social change.

N’Tanya Lee: Building Real Coalitional Queer Struggle

June 26, 2019

N'Tanya Lee discusses the shortfalls of single-issue queer organizing, reflecting on her work in the 90s, and how she carries those lessons into her current work through base-building and grassroots organizing within working-class communities of

Queer Dreams and Nonprofit Blues 3: The Nonprofit Hamster Wheel

November 20, 2016

Featuring Urvashi Vaid, Craig Willse, Andrea Ritchie, Amber Hollibaugh, and Shira Hassan. This video is included in The Scholar & Feminist Online issue 13.2, “Navigating Neoliberalism in the Academy, Nonprofits, and Beyond.” In October 2013,

Queer Dreams and Nonprofit Blues 6: Where Do We Go From Here

November 20, 2015

Featuring Andrea Ritchie, Dean Spade, Craig Willse, and Amber Hollibaugh

Queer Dreams and Nonprofit Blues 5: Basebuilding

November 20, 2015

Featuring Dean Spade, N'Tanya Lee, and Amber Hollibaugh

Queer Dreams and Nonprofit Blues 4: Who’s In Charge?

November 20, 2015

Featuring N'Tanya Lee, Urvashi Vaid, Jason Walker, Paulina Helm-Hernandez, Craig Willse, Dean Spade, and Imani Henry

Queer Dreams and Nonprofit Blues Part 1: What are We Fighting For?

November 20, 2015

Featuring N'Tanya Lee, Dean Spade, Trishala Deb, Tourmaline, and Kenyon Farrow.

Tourmaline: Historical Erasure as Violence

October 30, 2015

Tourmaline talks about learning and sharing histories of trans women of color, including Sylvia Rivera, Marsha P. Johnson, and STAR (Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries), as a strategy to transform and heal from historical isolation and

Amber Hollibaugh: A Movement for Liberation

October 30, 2015

Amber Hollibaugh talks about a the importance of a liberation framework centering low-income people and people of color for LGBTQ organizing.

Dean Spade: History of Queers Against Police

October 30, 2015

Dean Spade talks about the dramatic shifts in queer and trans movements over the last 50 years with the emergence in the 1990s of a highly visible and well-funded gay rights movement whose demand for
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