Announcing: Free Movement Retreat Space for SVA Partners
by Serenity Hill Retreat Center | Jul 31, 2023 | Movement Building
The Southern Vision Alliance provides incubation, infrastructure, capacity building, coaching and technical assistance to frontline organizing projects, leadership programs and collaborations. Our purpose is to be an anchor for frontline groups and leaders to disrupt...
Actions to Affirm: A Letter to the SCOTUS
by Kylah Guion and Nea Richard | Jul 6, 2023 | Call to Action, Movement Building, Statement, Uncategorized
Take a second to review the life you lived so far. Think about the times you've experienced your first understanding of who you are, explored the possibilities of what you could be, and had a safe space to really just figure it out. If you're like me, you've just...
News from the Frontlines
by Nada Merghani | Jun 11, 2023 | Movement Building, Political Education, Uncategorized
Southern Vision Alliance is committed to resourcing innovative, bold grassroots efforts led by directly impacted communities across the U.S. South. SVA's Frontline Fund is a mini-grants program that helps groups scale-up efforts, identify best practices, and deepen a...
Movement Journalism: The Journalism We Need For Liberation
by Nada Merghani | May 23, 2023 | Movement Building, Toppling Racism, Uncategorized
The journalism that is written today shapes tomorrow. Journalism is remembered in our history books as vital to many progressions society has made in the modern era. Journalists play an important role in their community as a source of information for their...
Queer Mobilization Fund: $100,000 for Queer Liberation
by Asher Skeen | Apr 27, 2023 | Call to Action, Movement Building, Uncategorized
The Queer Mobilization Fund has exciting news - and an urgent appeal for your support! To meet the needs of southern LGBTQ+ organizing, we need to raise an additional $100,000 by June 2023. Since our relaunch in Spring 2020, we have been intentionally growing the...
The Queer Mobilization Fund needs your support!
by Asher Skeen | Apr 24, 2023 | Annual Reports, Call to Action, Movement Building, Statement
The Queer Mobilization Fund steadily grew our program in 2022! We were able to increase our grantmaking by over $30k for a total of $125,470 in small grants to 23 QTBIPOC grantees across 9 states. That makes our total granting to date over $348,000 to nearly 70...
Organizing Against White Supremacy and Fascism
by Manzoor Cheema | Apr 20, 2023 | Movement Building, Toppling Racism
On December 3rd, 2022, white supremacists attacked an electric grid station in Moore County, NC in response to a drag show in the county. This drag show featured performers from the Durham, NC based House of Coxx, who organize drag performances across North Carolina...
Op-Ed: All Weapons Are Lethal in the Hands of the Police
by Nada Merghani and Blue Miller | Mar 29, 2023 | Movement Building, Uncategorized
Darryl Williams, 32, was tased to death by Raleigh police on January 18 while unarmed and attempting to flee. Lovingly referred to as “Boo Boo,” Williams is one of more than 1,000 people who have been killed by police with tasers since 2000. More than 90 percent of...
Black History Month reflections: How can our Southern grassroots movements create lasting structural change?
by Joshua Vincent | Feb 26, 2023 | Movement Building, Thought Leadership
Originally published in Scalawag. In the U.S. South, race is one of the most significant hurdles to our social political progress. Racialized geographies haunt our daily interactions. They are infused into our collective memory banks, dictating much of the ways we...
Statement on Attacks in Moore County
by Southern Vision Alliance | Dec 9, 2022 | Movement Building
The attacks in Moore County, NC are just the latest in an ongoing string of attacks against the LGBTQ community, and specifically transgender and the drag communities. Recently, the Charlotte Observer reported that North Carolina is tied with Texas for the highest...