SisterFire
From Social Justice Wiki
On Tuesday, April 5, 2005, Group 23 was able to go to the Center for Immigrant Families office at 20 W. 104th Street. Here, we interviewed Ujju Aggarwal about Sisterfire. The following paragraphs are taken from this conversation.
Sisterfire is under the umbrella of INCITE, a national organization of women of color that fights to end violence against women, especially women of color. INCITE can be found at INCITE
Sisterfire is concerned more with organizing than with protesting. One of the beliefs of Sisterfire is that arts and culture are instrumental to activism. To foster arts and culture, Sisterfire creates safe spaces for women and children to be free of oppression to speak out and have their voices heard.
Sisterfire itself is a National Arts and Culture tour centered around raising consciousness of the violence against women of color. To do this, Sisterfire finds artists who identify themselves as women of color. These artists then gather together, discuss their perspectives as women of color, and hold events in spaces that would have constituents that Sisterfire is trying to reach. For example, Sisterfire threw a concert in New York at a park where women and children of color are present anyways, to ensure that the target audience is reached.
By organizing and creating spaces for women of color to be heard, Sisterfire hope to raise consciousness about violence as a way to initiate prevention. Sisterfire searches for alternatives to incarceration as ways to fight violence.
Here is Sisterfire's New York City tour's website:
SisterfireNYC
The following links take their information directly from Sisterfire's Organizing Principles, Issues, and from local literature.