What we do

At BIWOC* Rising these are not simply buzzwords, but a way of life/or/work culture. We are building a strong/or/empowering sustainable community, that will create, in turn, safe spaces for the most vulnerable among us. As a first step, we make sure that the organizations, collectives and initiatives we work with, strive for social justice by setting an example themselves, i.e., are led by TIN*BIPoC/or/people from our marginalized communities. Together with them and our members, we lay the foundations for new structures that will lead to two key issues for a sustainable community: 1. financial independency, and 2. social participation. 

We are empowered by Audre Lorde’s statement that we can’t dismantle the master’s house with the master’s tools. So, we decided to create our own safer space – an alternative coworking space and social club that aren’t driven by capitalism, but by social justice. Here we support, teach, value and carry each other, so we can face and challenge racist and discriminatory systems, especially in our area of focus: the labor market and the workplace.