What is Reparations Summer?
Reparations Summer is a blueprint for wealth redistribution strategy that is woven together by the Black Queer and Trans healers and wisdom keepers of Drinking Gourd. We are organizing people with access to wealth into new models of philanthropy rooted in Afro-Indigenous values and ways of being. We are building true collaboration across the separation created by racism, capitalism, patriarchy, war, and enslavement, while all decisions are made by the Afro-Indigenous collective of Drinking Gourd.
As part of this movement building work, people with access to wealth apply to be part of our political education and lineage healing apprenticeship program, Reparations Mystery School. The Reparations apprentices support the organizing of the Reparations Summer campaign and the return of wealth to build self-determining, self-sustaining economies and sanctuary.
Black movements and our ancestors have issued a clarion call of Reparations Now over several generations, but there has been little collective change to how new economies are resourced from the ground up. Reparations Summer is a call to make that change now through a wealth redistribution campaign rooted in repair and rematriation of colonized land.