In December 2022, the UU Funding Program awarded a $10,000 grant and a $5,000 challenge grant to ICUUW for a project in collaboration with Sueños Sin Fronteras de Tejas (SSFTX), a Latinx, Women of Color-led advocacy collective. “Building BIPOC power in San Antonio, TX: Justice, Healing, and Resistance” promoted reproductive, immigrant, healing, and economic justice through community-led practices that support the livelihoods, visions, and leadership development of low-income, immigrant, Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) in San Antonio, TX.
The project offered trauma-informed educational workshops for 25 low-income, immigrant BIPOC – regardless of sexual orientation, gender identity, or immigration status – to enhance self-advocacy and community grassroots organizing for reproductive, immigrant, healing, and economic justice.
The protected spaces enabled participants to share, reflect, learn, and heal together in the service of strengthening individual and collective leadership for resilience, justice, healing, and transformation. Please see a report by SSFTX leaders: Sexual and Reproductive Health Workshops for the San Antonio Immigrant Community.
How can you further support this initiative?
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Learn how to advocate for the unique needs of pregnant and birthing undocumented and immigrant people
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Work with your congregation to adopt educational materials and resources from the Reproductive Justice curriculum of the Spiritual Alliance of Communities for Reproductive Dignity (SACReD)