Introduction
The “Post Trump edition” of the Feminist Community Archive of Washington (FCA WA) was needed to highlight the work of local organizations in response to Trump’s many failures to serve the people, record a truthful account of history, and to honor those whose lives were lost or made much worse due to these failures. There are four major areas where these organizations worked to combat his failures: immigration, education, mutual aid, and queer communities. When Trump was first elected, there was a large group of privileged people who downplayed the very real threat he posed. They gaslit members of marginalized communities because they could not see how their privilege insulated them from the harmful policies enacted during the Trump administration. This edition of FCA-WA holds the Trump administration accountable while also giving recognition to the organizations that altered their agenda or were created in response to the Trump administration’s criminal negligence.
Organizations in the Collection
Below, find a list of each organization recognized within this project in 2021, links to the organizations within the archive as well as their own websites when applicable, and a brief description of each. These descriptions can also be found organized into eight categories: Activist Organizations, BIPOC Organizations, Community Outreach Organizations, Education Organizations, LGBTQ+ Organizations, SARV + Anti-Violence Organizations, UW Bothell Organizations, and Youth Organizations.
Collegiate Community Transitions in the Archive
Collegiate Community Transitions (CCT) is a student club at the University of Washington Bothell. CCT seeks to create an authentic and uplifting community for students impacted by the criminal justice system. CCT is working to educate all students on the injustice of mass incarceration and to improve on campus educational opportunities for students of this background. Their work aims to offer program support, advocacy, mentorship, and greater access to resources in higher education for students affected by systems of incarceration. With education, recidivism rates are substantially reduced, and every person has the opportunity of fulfilling their dreams.
This mutual aid organization focuses on nonviolent direct action by using food and hot meals to protest war, poverty, and destruction of the environment across the globe. Food Not Bombs promotes veganism, vegetarianism and solidarity over charity. This Seattle chapter hosts a Free Market on Sundays and serves hot meals Saturdays and Sundays.
Gender, Women, & Sexuality Studies at UWB in the Archive
Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies (GWSS), historically called Women’s Studies, is a cutting edge interdisciplinary field that examines social and political realities shaped by gender, sexuality, and power. GWSS approaches topics from transnational and intersectional perspectives, enabling students to analyze and address issues of gender, sexuality, and social difference at personal, historical, institutional, and structural levels. GWSS scholars represent a wide range of disciplinary backgrounds, and conduct research in the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, and arts. GWSS at UWB launched a couple of weeks before the 2016 election.
Indivisible Kirkland in the Archive
Indivisible Kirkland promotes progressive ideals to advance justice, equity, and inclusion through civic engagement at the local and state level. Quite simply, they envision a just society. The organization’s priority issues for 2020 included: climate change, gun safety, healthcare & reproductive rights, civil rights & social justice, affordable housing, and immigrant & refugee rights.
Indivisible Kirkland stands in solidarity with Black-led organizations calling for defunding the police and investing in community wellness, particularly in programs that will positively impact Black, brown, and indigenous communities. Indivisible Kirkland pledges to support the organizations, with particular emphasis on Black-led groups, who are working to defund the police and invest in marginalized communities. Our support comes in the form of financial support, policy advocacy at the local and state levels, and amplifying the work that Black and brown leaders are doing in our community.
Snohomish County Mutual Aid Group in the Archive
This mutual aid group formed in response to the Trump administration’s handling of the COVID-19 crisis, specifically to help those most at-risk and underrepresented: undocumented families, immigrant and refugee communities, the elderly, communities of color, indigenous communities, LGBTQ+ folks, the poor, under-employed, or unemployed, those with disabilities/compromised immune systems, families of incarcerated or detained folks, and any other marginalized people. This organization offers varied support depending on need, from grocery and medicine contactless drop offs, finding local and federal resources, connecting with community members, outreach, providing transportation, mental and emotional support, and housing referrals.
Sunnyland Mutual Aid in the Archive
Sunnyland Mutual Aid is a neighborhood-based mutual aid project in the Sunnyland community of Bellingham, Washington. Formed in March, 2020 in response to the developing COVID-19 crisis, they are a collection of organizers, volunteers, and community members working to directly meet the needs of neighbors. If there’s capability in the community, they’ll work to get it done. To date they have connected neighbors with assistance with eldercare, tutoring, fundraising, food assistance, clothing, and more. While always evolving, their organization strives to be broadly abolitionist, anti-capitalist, socialist, and non-hierarchical.
Tacoma Mutual Aid Collective in the Archive
Tacoma Mutual Aid Collective works in solidarity with Tacoma communities to support resource, knowledge, and skill sharing across our neighborhoods.
UWB/CC Campus Library Community Reads in the Archive
Community Reads is a University of Washington Bothell (UWB) and Cascadia College (CC) campus library program that conducts quarterly events to cultivate productive discussion around equity, social justice, and diversity. This joint campus program aims to include all people regardless of background and to build a community through an intellectual experience discussing common books and media. Through large- and small- group discussions and activities, these events end with intellect turned action to encourage social change and engagement.
Washington Dream Coalition COVID-19 Relief Fund for Undocumented Individuals in the Archive
Washington Dream Coalition COVID-19 Relief Fund for Undocumented Individuals is a grassroots, community-led fund created by current and former undocumented young professionals in the Washington Dream Coalition. Launched on March 27, 2020, they’ve successfully raised over $7,000,000 to provide $500-$1000 one-time payments to thousands of undocumented people across Washington state. Thier mission was to provide emergency and recovery financial assistance to undocumented households left out of federal relief efforts and government safety net programs. By August of 2020, they closed their application after 20,000 submissions.
WSU Queer People of Color and Allies in the Archive
Queer Intersections Association WSU Queer People of Color and Allies (QPOCA) is a safe space for WSU students, staff, faculty, and community members to discuss the issues Queer People of Color encounter at WSU and in the greater community. As a collective, they strive to learn along side one another about the multiple ways they can support Queer People of Color. Queer People Of Color and Allies is an intersectional organizations that specifically focuses on issues that encompass Queer folxs of colors experience. They try to emphasize transgender, gender nonconforming, disability, mental health, differing forms of queer experiences, and mobilizing a queer theory not just identity. A space where people can exist as their full selves while their humanity is celebrated and supported.