Our Mission
BYP100 is National, member-based organization of Black 18-35 year old activists and organizers, dedicated to creating justice and freedom for all Black people. We do this through building a network focused on transformative leadership development, direct action organizing, advocacy, and political education using a Black queer feminist lens.
Our Vision
BYP100 envisions a world where all Black people have economic, social, political, and educational freedom.
Our Work
We mobilize through building a network focused on transformative leadership development, direct action organizing, advocacy, and education. Our membership core believes in the principles of decision-making, radical inclusivity, and is building a Black politic through a Black, queer, feminist lens.
Our work is generally centered on ending systems of anti-Blackness and emphasizing the urgency of protecting folks living on the margins of the margins, including women, girls, femmes, and the gamut of LGBTQ folk. We approach our work through relational organizing which involves community building through a democratic and consensus building process. We stress training in grassroots organizing, fundraising, public policy debate, and electoral organizing. Lastly, we engage in digital content creation (video, graphics, blogging), political education, and consciousness raising.
Black Queer Feminist Lens
The Black queer feminist lens is a political praxis (practice and theory) based in Black feminist and LGBTQ traditions and knowledge, through which people and groups are able to bring their full selves into the process of dismantling all systems of oppression. By using this lens, we are aided in creating alternatives of self-governance and self-determination, and by using it we can more effectively prioritize problems and methods that center historically marginalized people in our communities. It is an aspiration and liberatory politic that Black folks must take up for the sake of our collective liberation and acts on the basic notion that none of us will be free unless all of us are free.
Healing Justice
Healing Justice identifies how we can holistically respond to and intervene on intergenerational trauma and violence and bring collective practices that can impact and transform the consequences of oppression on our collective bodies, hearts, and minds. It seeks first to re-imagine and then re-establish the nature of the relationship between the persons immersed in the conflict in as health and safe manner as possible.
To become a Squad member you need only identify as Black. Squad Members are Black folks who are not currently eligible for BYP100 membership, but are/were at some point in their life. They cannot be individuals who have been expelled or have otherwise left the organization on bad terms.
As a BYP100 Squad Member, you are a commitment to:
- Payment of monthly dues ($10 monthly/$120 annually)
- BYP100’s mission, vision, and values;
- Studying and practicing Black queer feminist politics;
- Taking action in service of a world where all Black people have economic, social, political, educational, and spiritual freedom;
Questions? Email info@byp100.org.
Alumni and Squad Members are dues paying members, but have no voting power within the organization nor are they required to volunteer three hours per week.
