Support Sisters Unchained!

Sisters Unchained is a collective for young women of color with loved ones currently and formerly behind bars. Our program seeks to create a radical and loving space for affirmation, healing, political education, and the realization of our collective power to build up our communities.

Sisters Unchained started as a summer project, formerly known as Coding for Justice, for young women impacted by parental incarceration to acquire skills in computer coding and community organizing. The pilot program, founded by Families for Justice as Healing in 2014, is now led by Youth Against Mass Incarceration with support from the South End Technology Center.

Our goals are the following:

-To create and hold space for dialogue as well as healing of mind, body, and soul 

-Organize ways to better meet the needs of incarcerated children 

-Honor multiple paths towards empowerment and self-determination

-Support each other in sisterhood 

-Encourage creativity, radical resistance, and leadership in movement building

We achieve this through a six-week curriculum that is rooted in a political education that breaks down
the prison industrial complex and centers the voices of women freedom fighters. All of the areas
explored, from computer science, art and self-expression, and community organizing, are structured
around the knowledge we exchange regarding our different, yet interconnected, histories and
experiences as women of color.

Your donations will make it possible for us to pay for a space, feed the participants, buy books/materials, and provide the young facilitators/creators of this program with stipends.