We believe in restoring the human right to bodily autonomy, to full agency over reproductive decisions and care options including the decision to have or not to have children, to raise children and build families in safe, sustainable communities, to have the resources necessary to support oneself, one’s children, and one’s family, to have the education needed to make informed decisions about one’s sexuality, gender, and RS healthcare without coercion, discrimination, violence or repercussion, and to have access to quality culturally-concordant care, contraception, and sex education. For us, rsj centers those who are most marginalized- BIPOC, queer and trans, disabled, poor, etc.

We honor Afro-Ecology as “a form of art, movement, practice and process of social and ecological transformation that involves the re-evaluation of our sacred relationships with land, water, air, seeds and food; (re)recognizes humans as co-creators that are an aspect of the planet’s life support systems; values the Afro-Indigenous experience of reality and ways of knowing; cherishes ancestral and communal forms of knowledge, experience and lifeways that began in Africa and continue throughout the Diaspora; and is rooted in the agrarian traditions, legacies and struggles of the Black experience in the Americas.”

- Blain Snipstal of the Black Dirt Farm Collective <3

We believe that all people should have access to quality education, learning incentives, and intergenerational learning opportunities; ensuring that community members are equipped with knowledge, wisdom, and understanding that will guide them toward making informed decisions throughout their lifetime and set them up for future success.

We are a part of an ecosystem of people and grassroots orgs creating solutions that address shared concerns and meet shared needs within the Chicago community.

We believe in (re)storing our fundamental right to wholistic wellness by centering rest, joy, play, creativity, movement, spirituality, and traditional healing modalities as acts of colonial resistance that uplift, empower and support our community members

We believe it is a foundational human and cultural right for people to have safe and sustainable multigenerational communities that thrive; ensuring our ecosystem of community care is both sustainable and regenerative.