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If You Won’t Vote Differently, Pony Up.
Hello Community (Diasporic Kinfolk + Genuine Allies),
Hello Champions (Diasporic Kin),
Hello Others (everyone else):
As you know, we of the African Diaspora are building something different. Not awareness. Not another campaign full of talk. We’re designing real systems that cut the cost of living—starting right here in Boston.
Our focus begins locally, but Kinfolk everywhere should be watching. You’re about to see what we are told is impossible under “realistic” thinking:
- Housing, food, transportation, and community labor made free and accessible.
- Built without begging. Built without delay.
- Built by and for us.
We’ve always had the power. When we decide to build for ourselves, it’s already a success.
The next phase requires structure, and structure requires resources and space that are consistently stripped from us. Even our ability to gather in peace is treated like a threat.
Meanwhile, folks outside the Diaspora, those who benefit from our culture and labor are often the same ones who won’t vote differently, act differently, or even treat us like full human beings.
If that’s you? Pony up.
We’ve done everything so far out of pocket. No institutional funding. No corporate cosign. Just labor, intention, and persistence. That can only go so far.
Kinfolk: contribute only if it’s within your means.
Everyone else: If you aren’t voting differently, thinking differently, or standing differently, the least you can do is donate. You can afford to. Treat it like the trend you’ll turn it into anyway. Just know this time: it’s not going away. If real change scares you, GOOD. We’re building it with or without your approval. Think on your feelings.
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What This Funds
This launch fund will cover, but is not limited to:
- Securing at least one community-controlled housing site before winter
- Launching free, safe meeting spaces for organizing, education, and community connection
- Taking 10–20 of those from the Diaspora to D.C. for a historic strategy trip (transportation, hotels, food, )
- Launching a radical, community-run media platform (People’s Town Hall)
- Building our safety, legal, and administrative infrastructure
- Running community meals, public workshops, and apprenticeship-based events, always free for those who put in time or effort
None of this is abstract. If you’ve followed my work online or seen the organizing already done, this is the ramp up: not the beginning.
We’re not asking for handouts or mutual aid that stops after one transaction. We’re refusing to keep holding the world together for free and building one instead. This is what sustainability starts with.
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The Ask
We’re starting with $75,000. That’s just enough to set things in motion while building long-term sustainability.
If you don’t believe in it? Cool—share it with some people and laugh. It'll get us in front of more and more people.
If you do believe in it? Good—show us with action and support (donate then share this).
Whether you do or don’t, the change is already in motion.
The only question is:
Will you be part of it, or just in the way?
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Last Word
This isn’t about respectability. This is about redistribution.
Invest in a world that works for the Diaspora.
Because when we build systems that serve us, everyone benefits.
—Boa, on behalf of the Community and our shared future
Organizer
