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Black and Pink – Chicago Chapter

In addition to learning through letter-writing, we learn through participating in political education. Our study group gets together to discuss books and articles, and screen films like Herman’s House. We read about specific ways queer and trans people are targeted by police and prisons, and how the PIC is a continuation of structural racism and Jim Crow laws. We’ve read about campaigns to fight back, and this summer read the autobiography of Assata Shakur. We are now reading about links between industrial agriculture and the PIC.

The Chicago chapter of Black and Pink started in 2013. We first came together to read and discuss a book called The New Jim Crow, and write holiday cards to LGBTQ people locked up in Illinois. We officially formed as a chapter of Black and Pink last spring. Since then, we have focused on finding, matching, and supporting LGBTQ penpals in Illinois, and learning more about the prison industrial complex, or PIC.

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