Our History

A Decade of Service

For over a decade, Black Women’s Blueprint has mobilized for our community. We are proud as a survivor led-organization to have implemented programs that promote gender justice, racial healing, reproductive health, and reconciliation.

Our work is rooted in the belief that our collective survival depends on our collective action.

We celebrate our milestones, each watershed moment of birth and tears, of witnessing ourselves as our ancestors wildest dreams. It’s been a decade of struggle, a decade of uplift, a decade “in defense of ourselves”, a decade of “words of fire” and a decade of “some of us are brave” with our eyes wide open and our feet deeply rooted in spells and magic and foretellings of liberation which leaves “no one behind enemy lines”.

Milestone Moments & Accomplishments

• Convened the first-ever Black Women’s Truth & Reconciliation Commission (BWTRC) to focus on Black women and sexual violence

• Created multimedia cultural productions, the Mother Tongue Monologues theater, that produced critical analysis in the years preceding the BWTRC and formed programs steeped in the mandates of Truth, Justice, Healing and Reconciliation

• Developed powerful partnerships at federal and local levels, influencing key policy that shaped the national cultural gaze to one that centered Black women and girls, rather than pornified their bodies and identities.

• Testified at the United Nations, demanding Black women be written into international human rights history offering testimony in front of the International Committee on the Eradication of Racial Discrimination (CERD) and International Committee to End Torture (CAT) and ratify the Convention on the Eradication of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW).

• Created the Sista’s Van, a mobile healing unit to serve survivors of sexual violence, trafficking, reproductive violence, and physical abuse

• Founded the Museum of Women’s Resistance, guiding visitors through the history of social justice movements led by women of the Global South and Diaspora

• Developed the Sexual Abuse to Maternal Mortality Pipeline report and training series 

• Designed trainings geared towards the prevention and intervention of gender violence in the workplace. Notable clients included the NFL, NYPD, HBCUs, and A+E Networks

• Created the Liberatory Trauma-Healing model through an iterative cycle, which we as survivors used to liberate ourselves. Through our Liberatory Trauma Healing Model, we cultivated and built brave space, mobilized communities, truth councils and cohorts of fierce advocates, activists, and community leaders. 

• Wrote think pieces, articles, critical responses and open letters as counter-narratives to the thinking at various times.