Ignite the fire this Giving Tuesday with your contribution towards SISTA Fire’s sustainability!

Celebrate Giving Tuesday with us by supporting our members as we build towards better and bigger possibilities. Give today, and consider becoming a Fire Starter with your commitment to a monthly gift. As we come to the close of another successful year, we are celebrating many accomplishments made possible by our members. Here are just a few of the things we’ve done utilizing our four core strategies:

1. Building a Strong Membership Base and Network: This spring we hired two organizers, Valerie Santil and Terri Wright, to hold down our base building efforts. Through two marches, a vigil, and our Liberated Circle this November, SISTA Fire has activated women and nonbinary people of color in Rhode Island throughout the year in order to form deep relationships with each other, our communities, and our families--chosen and birthed. Our Liberated Circle brought out over 150 people to the Southside Cultural Center for a day of fun, freedom, and fellowship.
2. Solidarity and Collective Healing: In the spring and summer, local artist Shey Rivera facilitated a Healing Justice Committee for our members to discuss ways in which we can build towards healing justice together. Participants practiced and developed skits utilizing Theatre of the Oppressed techniques. A skit on housing was debuted in August at an event hosted by the Providence Commemoration Lab. In September, we hired Alexa Barriga to continue to hold our healing justice work based on what members have expressed a desire in exploring.
3. Growing our Economic Power: This year, our Political Education Coordinator, Justice Gaines has been working with our membership to develop a framework around regenerative economies. As our understanding has become clearer, our membership is preparing to build a ten year agenda towards building our own regenerative economy in Rhode Island that will support and sustain women and nonbinary people of color and our families. At November's Liberated Circle we invited the community to contribute to the process and help inform a clearer direction to move towards.
4. Organizing for Change: In April, we hosted the Center for Third World Organizing who led a two-day Community Action Training for our members. In October, we invited leaders from local grassroots movement organizations to participate in a two-day Popular Education Training held by Pancho Arguelles of the Praxis Project. Participants were then invited to join us at our Liberated Circle, an opportunity to continue building relationship with our partners across movement spaces.

As a member-led organization, SISTA Fire has been investing in the leadership of women and nonbinary people of color to build our collective power for social, economic and political transformation. Your support is a commitment to the change we are creating in Rhode Island!