Equity

An app to see and plan protests in your area and connect with the social justice community. Made by Houston-based, black women activists in college!💫.

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Equity, an app to post and plan protests and public demonstrations, is available now in the app store. Using social networking and event sharing, you can connect with your community for social change. Download now!! 💫

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BOOK CLUB WEEK 7!

“I am not a man. I am not a woman. I am not heterosexual. I am not homosexual. I am not bisexual. I am a dissident of the gender-sex binary system. I am the multiplicity of the cosmos trapped in a binary political and epistemological system."

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BOOK CLUB WEEK 7!

An Apartment on Uranus is the latest collection of experimental essays by Spanish philosopher, essayist, academic, and self-professed “dissident of the gender-sex binary system” Paul Preciado.

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Kimberlé Crenshaw
Activist | Scholar | Professor

“It’s not about supplication, it’s about power. It’s not about asking, it’s about demanding. It’s not about convincing those who are currently in power, it’s about changing the very face of power itself.”

—Kimberlé Crenshaw

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Looking for a better to stay connected to the world of activism? Look no further than EQUITY, the nation's first community organising app for social justice.

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BOOK CLUB WEEK 6!

“She knows that the woman is not in Brooklyn, standing on Flatbush Avenue, but home. She went crazy in America, her mind halting in the loneliness, anxiety, and the soundlessness of things falling apart: a sweet surrender."

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BOOK CLUB WEEK 6!

Nicole Dennis-Benn's sophomore novel is a book rich with themes of sacrifice, shame, guilt, desire, and disillusion. Dennis- Behn's eponymous character yearns for the chance to escape her restrictive life in Jamaica by fleeing to America.

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Audre Lorde
Writer | Poet | Professor | Activist | Womanist

- Self-described "black, lesbian, feminist, socialist, mother, warrior, poet"
- Early supporter and pioneer of intersectional feminism and black feminism (what Lorde dubbed womanism)
- 1991–1992: NY State Poet laureate

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Kylar W. Broadus
Activist | Attorney | Professor

- Founder of the Trans People of Color Coalition.
- First trans person to testify in front of the US Senate.
- In 2019, Broadus was awarded the Trans Trailblazer Award by the LGBT Bar Association of LA.

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Organize your own protests, get your community involved in the cause, easily connect with other activists, and stay up-to-date on the latest news and events with Equity's networking tools. Download EQUITY now and stay connected to the causes most important to you!

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Miss Major
Activist | Community Leader

"We've got to revolt, and we’ve got to reclaim who the f*ck we are and let these people realize, before they came along, we were honored and worshipped and appreciated and adored."

—Zachary Drucker

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CeCe McDonald
Community Leader | Activist

- Gained attention through criminal case.
- Brought conversations about trans and GNC incarceration into the public consciousness.
- Awarded the Bayard Rustin Civil Rights Award by the Harvey Milk LGBT Democratic Club.

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With EQUITY, you can easily keep track of protests in your area, so you can join in on the action, or just stay informed.

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BOOK CLUB WEEK 5!

In their sophomore novel "The Thirty Names of Night," Zeyn Joukhadar has found a lush and playful way of marrying memoir, fiction and poetry. His writing is melodic, reverent, and venous, tapping straight from one heart to another.

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BOOK CLUB WEEK 5!

"If an object can become sacred by placing it on a table and calling it an altar, then who is to say we cannot sanctify our own bodies?"

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Barbara Smith
Author | Academic | Activist

"For those of you who are tired of hearing about racism, imagine how much more tired we are of experiencing it..."

—Speech delivered by Smith

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Brittany Packnett Cunningham
Community Leader | Activist

- Member of Missouri's Ferguson Commission responding to 2014'S Ferguson Protests.
- Member of President Barack Obama's Task Force on 21st-Century Policing.
- Co-founder of Campaign Zero, a police conduct reform campaign.

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Looking for a better to stay connected to the world of activism? Look no further than EQUITY, the nation's first community organising app for social justice.

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Kimberly Jones Author | Activist | Leader

- Co-author of the YA book "I'm Not Dying with You Tonight" (written with Gilly Segal).
- Featured in a video titled "How Can We Win" during the George Floyd protests, amassing more than 2 millions views.

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Nekima Levy Armstrong
Lawyer | Activist

- Former president of NAACP Minneapolis.
- Chair of Minnesota State Advisory Committee to the US Commission on Civil Rights (USCCR).
- Chair of Everybody In, a nonprofit aiming to close race-based employment gaps in the Minneapolis area.

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Nekima Levy Armstrong Lawyer | Activist

- Former president of NAACP Minnesota.
- Chair of the Minnesota State Advisory Committee to US Commission on Civil Rights (USCCR).
- Chair of Everybody In, a nonprofit aiming to close race-based employment gaps in the Minneapolis area.