State of Solidarity: Solidarity Wedges and Bridges by Building Movement Project

About the Building Movement Project

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Learn more about the Building Movement Project

About Solidarity Is

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Solidarity Is Practice Guide

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Building Blocks for Change

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Building Blocks for Change (BB4C) is an assessment designed to help nonprofits build the foundation to foster more racially equitable workplaces.

Anna Castro

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Anna Castro is Transgender Law Center’s Principal Narrative Strategist for the Trans Agenda for Liberation Narrative Lab. With fifteen years of experience designing and leading integrated advocacy campaigns in the voting and civic engagement, immigration, and transgender rights movement, Anna’s work with the Trans Agenda for Liberation Narrative Lab is centered on building narrative infrastructure at the national and state level. They hold a bachelor’s degree in Black Studies from Amherst College, led communications strategy at the ACLU of San Diego & Imperial Counties and Mi Familia Vota, and worked with Deepa Iyer to launch the Solidarity Is program to facilitate transformative solidarity practices for movement building organizations and activists.

Rinku Sen

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Rinku Sen is a writer and social justice strategist. She is formerly the Executive Director of Race Forward and was Publisher of their award-winning news site Colorlines. Under Sen’s leadership, Race Forward generated some of the most impactful racial justice successes of recent years, including Drop the I-Word, a campaign for media outlets to stop referring to immigrants as “illegal,” resulting in the Associated Press, USA Today, LA Times, and many more outlets changing their practice.

Her books Stir it Up and The Accidental American theorize a model of community organizing that integrates a political analysis of race, gender, class, poverty, sexuality, and other systems. In her current role leading Narrative Initiative, she is building a vision of true multiracial, pluralistic democracy, and helping organizers across movements learn how to saturate every story with their ideas.

Sharmin Hossain

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Sharmin Hossain (she/her) is a Bangladeshi Muslim organizer and artist from Queens, New York. She is the Organizing Director of 18 Million Rising, building national Asian American political power that contributes to movements for racial justice, abolition, anti-militarism, and democracy through political education, campaigns, and deep base building. Sharmin was formerly an organizer with East Coast Solidarity Summer (ECSS) and Political Director of Equality Labs.

About TLC

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About 18 Million Rising

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About Narrative Initiative

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Adaku Utah

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Born in Baltimore, Maryland, raised in Festac, Nigeria, grounded in her legacy of organizers, farmers and healers, Adaku harnesses her seasoned skills as a grassroots strategist, abolitionist healer, movement facilitator, somatics coach and ritual artist as an act of love and commitment to her community. She enjoys co-cultivating social justice leaders and organizations to be more strategic, sustainable, and impactful. For over twenty years, their work has centered on movements for radical social change, with a focus on gender, reproductive, race, youth, and healing justice. They currently work on staff with the Building Movement Project where they support movement building organizations to tackle the most significant social issues of our times by developing research, creating tools and trainings, providing guidance, and facilitating networks for transformative change.

Journalist Resource – Guide for Reporting on Queer and Trans Migrants

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Media makers have the power to flip harmful narratives by aligning journalistic integrity with thoughtful and nuanced reporting. This guide examines how the media shapes public perception, reinforces systemic inequities, and offers pathways and narrative strategies towards more just and accurate storytelling.

Security to Well-Being Cohort

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The Building Movement Project (BMP) is excited to launch the 3rd annual Security to Wellbeing cohort slated to begin in July 2026 for Direct Service Organizations who want to step into social change!

Through this cohort, BMP hopes to create a space of learning and community with service organizations to both, offer a rich and meaningful experience for its members and provide holistic support that turns lessons learned into applied action and positive change for the communities they serve.

Applications due May 15.

Solidarity Intensive

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Solidarity is in our collective DNA, but systems, narratives, and habits can create wedges that prevent us from being in deeper relationships across movements. This Solidarity Intensive, facilitated by SolidarityIs at Building Movement Project, invites individuals working actively in nonprofit and movement spaces to deepen solidarity practice and be part of a hands-on reflection and skills-building practice session.

Learn more and apply by submitting an interest form by May 15.

Solidarity Is This Podcast

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Solidarity Stances

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How to Build Solidarity Infrastructure for the Long Haul

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For Nonprofit Quarterly, BMP’s Adaku Utah and Deepa Iyer write about episodic solidarity in our movements and why we need to build and resource transformative solidarity infrastructure for the long haul.

SolidarityIs Cohort

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Join Building Movement Project’s Solidarity Is Cohort for a 6-week training program on transformative solidarity principles and practices tailored towards emerging activists and organizers ready to sharpen their analysis, deepen their connections, and strengthen their skills for the long struggle ahead.

Drop the I-Word

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Social Change Ecosystem

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Here We Are

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Here We Are is a national storytelling campaign launched on June 1, 2024, joining an ongoing campaign to build a country where transgender people can be their authentic selves and express their identity openly and free from fear.

Trans Agenda for Liberation

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The Trans Agenda for Liberation is a community-led guide towards the world we deserve. Trans people hold the knowledge, power, and joy to create a future where we can all not only survive but thrive.