Our Mission
BYP100 is a National, member-based organization of Black 18-35-year-old activists and organizers, dedicated to creating justice and freedom for all Black people. We do this through building a network focused on transformative leadership development, direct action organizing, advocacy, and political education using a Black queer feminist lens.
Our Vision
BYP100 envisions a world where all Black people have economic, social, political, and educational freedom.
Our Work
We mobilize through building a network focused on transformative leadership development, direct action organizing, advocacy, and education. Our membership core believes in the principles of decision-making, radical inclusivity, and is building a Black politic through a Black, queer, feminist lens.
Our work is generally centered on ending systems of anti-Blackness and emphasizing the urgency of protecting folks living on the margins of the margins, including women, girls, femmes, and the gamut of LGBTQ folk. We approach our work through relational organizing which involves community building through a democratic and consensus-building process. We stress training in grassroots organizing, fundraising, public policy debate, and electoral organizing. Lastly, we engage in digital content creation (video, graphics, blogging), political education, and consciousness-raising.
Black Queer Feminist Lens
The Black queer feminist lens is a political praxis (practice and theory) based on Black feminist and LGBTQ traditions and knowledge, through which people and groups are able to bring their full selves into the process of dismantling all systems of oppression. By using this lens, we are aided in creating alternatives of self-governance and self-determination, and by using it we can more effectively prioritize problems and methods that center historically marginalized people in our communities. It is an aspiration and liberatory politic that Black folks must take up for the sake of our collective liberation and acts on the basic notion that none of us will be free unless all of us are free.
Healing Justice
Healing Justice identifies how we can holistically respond to and intervene in intergenerational trauma and violence and bring collective practices that can impact and transform the consequences of oppression on our collective bodies, hearts, and minds. It seeks first to re-imagine and then re-establish the nature of the relationship between the persons immersed in the conflict in as health and safe manner as possible.
Principled Struggle
- Be honest and direct while holding compassion.
- Take responsibility for your feelings and actions.
- Seek deeper understanding (ask, read - first).
- Consider that this may or may not be the container for what you need to bring.
- Side conversations and one on ones should build us up.
- We struggle for the sake of deeper understanding and greater unity.
BYP100 Members must:
- Identify as Black
- Be 18-35
Alumni Members are BYP100 members 36+.
Squad Members are Black folks who are not currently eligible for BYP100 membership, but are/were at some point in their life. They cannot be individuals who have been expelled or have otherwise left the organization on bad terms.
Further, you understand that being a BYP100 member requires a commitment of time and treasure. BYP100 members volunteer three hours per week to BYP100 work, payment of monthly dues ($10 monthly/$120 annually), and consistent fundraising within your networks and communities to further BYP100 work.
Questions? Email membership@byp100.org.
* Alumni and Squad Members are dues-paying members, but have no voting power within the organization nor are they required to commit three hours per week.