![]() You can read our interview with the founder of The Okra Project, Ianne Fields Stewart, here. You can visit The Okra Project’s website here. ![]() You can follow The Okra Project on Instagram and Twitter. Those who are willing and interested may donate funds AND/OR may donate one therapy session with their Black male therapist. The T ony McDade Mental Health Recovery Fund is an emergency mutual aid fund that raises money to pay for one-time mental health therapy sessions with licensed Black male therapists. The Nina Pop Mental Health Recovery Fund is an emergency mutual aid fund that raises money to pay for one-time mental health therapy sessions with licensed Black women therapists. In honor of Nina Pop, a Black trans woman who was murdered in Sikeston, Missouri in May, and Tony McDade, a Black trans man who was shot and killed by police in Tallahassee, Florida last week, and to the countless Black Trans people who been murdered by state-sanctioned violence, The Okra Project created the Nina Pop Mental Health Recovery Fund and the Tony McDade Mental Health Recovery Fund. □️□ ✊□ Please consider donating to The Okra Project, a grassroots, organizer-led initiative with the goal of fighting food insecurity in the Black Trans community. ![]() Sign up for our weekly newsletter here.CW: Anti-Black trans death, murder, death “This is just our continued dedication to feeding people - not just through their mouth but through their soul,” Toussaint tells me with a glowing smile on her face. In January, they plan to resume direct services in New York City, though they have dreams of spreading their seeds to other cities in the U.S. And soon, they’ll be launching two different kinds of interfaith events called Faith By Okra - one for a mix of cis and trans folks and another specifically for Black trans folks. Recently, they hired a full-time bartender, Jamari Thomas, in the hopes that they can start to help people who want to throw house parties or other nightlife events. For the past couple months, they’ve paused direct services while they seek a fiscal sponsor from a “like-minded organization,” which would allow more flexibility in how they use their money.Īs the Okra Project approaches its one year anniversary, the core team has a long list of new initiatives that they want to take on in their second year. “You actually get to fill in the gaps in places that a nonprofit can't, because they're restricted,” Toussaint says, pointing out that sometimes the Black Trans Solidarity Fund goes towards a for a number of vital and urgent needs, whether it’s hormones, bail, or transportation funds for a Black trans person. And though they’ve been intentionally operating as a not-for-profit, they’ve also veered away from officially registering as a non-profit organization. So far, the Okra Project has been wholly funded by community donations, with all funds coming in through PayPal and their Patreon account. “All folks across lived experiences can come together to have a conversation about what Blackness and transness means to them, all while being fed.” “Healing comes through those events,” she tells me. The organization has also hosted a variety of health, wellness, and beauty events called #ByOkra, helmed by the Okra Project’s Community Coordinator Nala Simone Toussaint. The Okra Project is a social justice organization with a focus on LGBTQ/GNC people and individuals living with HIV/AIDS. There’s the International Grocery Fund, which allows any Black trans person in the world to receive $40 to purchase food after filling out a simple form, as well as the Okra Academy, a workshop that teaches Black trans folks how to cook. The pre-alpha version of Okra is a command line tool: okra -help okra upsert JuliaLang IJulia.jl 'sqlite:///ijulia.db. Okra uses analytics, not buzzwords, create a Jupyter notebook report on the health of a specific project. ![]() (August and other members of the team have moved on to “bigger and better things,” Stewart tells me, but all previously involved coordinators and chefs are acknowledged on the project’s website.) Within the first couple months, the organization extended the reach of their direct services from New York City to Philadelphia, and they’ve introduced a myriad of other initiatives. How healthy is our software Okra is a tool that diagnoses the health of projects which use git version control. ![]() Since then, the Okra Project has grown in leaps and bounds, with Stewart and Sampson leading the charge as co-facilitators. ![]()
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