These are the initiatives and movements that I am currently working on!
Founder
#DoneForDiDi
GLOBAL
The History of #DoneForDiDi
#DoneForDiDi was born out of providing amplification to the necessary, valid stories of cash poor Black women and non-men. Since December 2017, we have amplified and funded close to 1,000 individuals. Many experts that are credentialed in poverty are far removed from living within the narrative of poverty. We assert that persons experiencing poverty are the best experts. Each organizer works in their local communities, and #DoneForDiDi supports resource redistribution relief via:
Monthly micro-funding to 8-16 cash poor individuals with urgent immediate needs known as “Petty Cash”
Supporting the seed funding of smaller projects such as The Book Drive, Books & Breakfast, and The Full Set.
Providing monthly stipends to organizers of $200 - $300 to provide a small cushion to their own footing.
Back-end administrative support, advertising and paid internships.
It is our hope that people with privilege do the right thing. Don’t know where you land on the privilege meter? No worries, #DoneForDiDi is a battle cry for action, now.
How will you respond?
about the full set
The Full Set is a podcast that centers Black voices in intimate and candid conversations about Blackness in all of its facets. These conversations focus on the often unheard stories of hustlers, intellectual heavyweights, Blackademics, single mothers, and front-line community organizers, all through a Black, queer, feminist lens.
“The Full Set began as a healing and self-care journey for me, a Queer Black femme (the host) during the beginning of the 2020 Coronavirus quarantine. The absence of my nail technician, who also happens to be my best friend, forced me to recognize the importance of having space to discuss issues important to folks who look like us. Not having this container during quarantine was a struggle for me and, I imagined, many others. I decided to recreate the space for healing. I wanted to hear about how everyone else was doing in the way that getting my full set would have provided the opportunity to do so. An episode of TFS is like a long phone call where there are a few specifics you want to touch on but the conversation goes where it needs to. Like a conversation between good friends or frenemies, there’s no spin and no restrictions; just plenty of camaraderie.”
- Didi Delgado
The History of BLM Cambridge
Black Lives Matter Cambridge began with three Cambridge, MA based activists who had been angered by how removed the movement had been from Cambridge and other liberal cities like Cambridge, as if to say that racism does not exist here. On January 21, 2015, lead organizers Toni Bee and Stephanie Guirand with support from Abe Lateiner, a white accomplice, a march and die-in took place in the streets of Cambridge. Many Cantabrigians relished that this was the first time an anti-racism protest took place in Cambridge.
Since the January protest, Black Lives Matter Cambridge has become an official chapter of the national #BlackLivesMatter movement. BLM Cambridge has organized a number of events and have begun campaigns to challenge structural racism in Cambridge.
About Us
The mission of the Society of Urban Poetry (S.O.U.P.) is to unite literary poets and spoken word artists across the Boston area. S.O.U.P. recognizes the diversity among creative individuals and groups across gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, faith, ability, and age.
We seek to do dope poetry with dope people; to shed light on poetry and spoken word as integral pieces of the Boston Creative Arts community; and to foster an inclusive network that embraces all forms of diversity, and aims to bridge divisions that still exist within the poetic community.