Afrofuture Youth

A Detroit based, Black youth led organizing group. Creating new worlds through black futurism via arts, tech, & healing. Our resistance stems from creation💙

[Afrofuture Youth @AFYDet]

If anyone knows of any Black illustrators, DM us! (bonus points if they’re from Detroit!)

[Afrofuture Youth @AFYDet]

AFY actually visiting Ireland to do this work sounds real nice. And we’re talking with them about that potentially happening in the future

[Afrofuture Youth @AFYDet]

Just got off a call with organizers who live in Ireland & im excited

We talked about ways to connect AFY with their youth so we can organize around creating communities free from state violence

I’ll be in Scotland in June & im hoping I can make my way to them 🌟

-Adrienne

[Afrofuture Youth @AFYDet]

We know the revolution won’t be funded. There aren’t enough dollars to go around to sustain all the projects & work. Nor should organizing work rely on pay

When the work relies on funding it’s contradictory to the work itself

we’re going back to community support in other ways

[Afrofuture Youth @AFYDet]

It’s also been an amazing year financially

$90k in one grant (split between 3 years)

$6k from GoFundMe

$5k from Skillman

We were nominated for every last dollar by the community. No initial applications

We’re working on divesting from capitalist funding after this though✨

[Afrofuture Youth @AFYDet]

It’s literally been years of doing this work solo while repairing my capacity to trust again after experiencing much harm

I finally found someone who feels like family to hold this work with me. Shared ideologies, values, & commitment to political edu & revolution

-Adrienne

[Afrofuture Youth @AFYDet]

Sorry we’ve been so quiet on here. Adrienne has been running the behind the scenes aspects of AFY by themselves while helping our siblings with liberation projects, until last month when we got an intern. 🌟

Can’t wait to introduce y’all to them.

[Afrofuture Youth @AFYDet]

As always thanks for sharing y’all 😊

Liberation projects start debuting this summer.

2 films

An anti capitalist art & healing space for Detroiters

& political education sessions for African parents of trans youth

Stay tuned ☺️

[Afrofuture Youth @AFYDet]

Preference goes towards Detroit based, African, anti capitalist, LGBTQ artists

[Afrofuture Youth @AFYDet]

Looking for an adult support person to help an AFY sib develop their liberation project. Paid position. Send recommendations via dm, replies, or email. Don’t initiate a convo between us & who you recommend. We’ll reach out if interested

Requirements are in the following tweets

[Afrofuture Youth @AFYDet]

We understand these may seem like a lot of traits to some folk, but we want you to understand these things are necessary for the protection of our youth & our people

Furthermore, revolution & developing/developed values is never a separate aspect from anything we do in this org

[Afrofuture Youth @AFYDet]

Congrats to all other receipts.

A link for the announcement can be found here

https://t.co/sXwK64v6bF

[Afrofuture Youth @AFYDet]

We’re excited about our nomination from the Skillman Foundation President Youth Council which led to a surprise $5,000 grant we were awarded at the end of last week

The recipients announcement has now been made public. A special thank you to Jeremiah Steen for seeing the vision

[Afrofuture Youth @AFYDet]

https://t.co/cYfuoHxVxr

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