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Our Mission

SPARK serves as an entry point and leadership pipeline for new social justice leaders, and a political home for Black women and young people, centering Black queer women, trans folx and folx living outside the gender binary.

We utilize arts, culture and media to build resources for and shift narratives about our communities. SPARK engages in power building through grassroots organizing, advocacy, knowledge-building, and political development of our base and members in Georgia and across the US South.

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Our Vision

SPARK serves as an entry point and leadership pipeline for new social justice leaders, and a political home for Black women and young people, centering Black queer women, trans folx and folx living outside the gender binary.

We utilize arts, culture and media to build resources for and shift narratives about our communities. SPARK engages in power building through grassroots organizing, advocacy, knowledge-building, and political development of our base and members in Georgia and across the US South.

Our Values

SPARK’s work and culture is rooted in principles

of love, joy, and connection.

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We value radical rest and wellness as practices of liberation.

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We honor fluidity, adaptability and growth as practices

that allow us all to stand in our authenticity.

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We strive to center folx who exist further in the margins, and prioritize their needs and ideas.

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We engage in principled struggle as a means to build deeper relationships and communities and to lean into trust, honesty, grace, and accountability.

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We value freedom, equity, and accessible autonomy that is complete and unobstructed in all facets.

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