Our Mission

Girls for Gender Equity (GGE) works intergenerationally, through a Black feminist lens, to achieve gender and racial justice by centering the leadership of Black girls and gender-expansive young people of color to reshape culture and policy through advocacy, youth-led programming, and shifting dominant narratives.

What we believe

• We believe that young folks are experts who will organize and lead an intergenerational movement for gender equity rooted in Black feminism. 
• We believe in the power of a Black feminist storytelling tradition to break the silence on structural violence and state violence at the various intersections of racism and heteropatriarchy. 
• We believe in the words of Audre Lorde that “difference is that raw and powerful connection from which our personal power is forged” and that “I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own”. 
• We believe in the powerful uses of anger for young people as they respond to injustice and inequity. 
• We believe cultivating and investing in Joy is necessary for our liberatory movement work. 
• We believe in the interconnectedness of struggles for liberation for women and femmes of color, queer folks, undocumented peoples, Indigenous peoples, differently abled folks, folks fighting imperialism and capitalism, and various marginalized groups in the U.S. and around the globe.
• We recognize that our Black feminist politics are grounded in our practices, both our everyday lived experiences and our grassroots organizing and advocacy as and with cis and trans girls, young women, and gender nonconforming youth and adults of color. 
• We love and appreciate the many girls of color and TGNC youth in GGE over the years who have taught us more than we could imagine.  
• We affirm various articulations of Black feminism and other women of color feminisms. 

We ultimately believe liberation is possible.