#GivingTuesday Sending Love Notes

Give $10 to the Norm:al Africa campaign on #GivingTuesday to send a love note from Africa.  This campaign is filtering money into three African organizations and two American organizations who focus on supporting LGBTQ communities.

Give $10 to send a love note from Africa.

Click on the link above and donate $10 to send someone special a love note.  If you send 3 love notes, you can still receive a t-shirt. T-shirt sales will continue for #GivingTuesday. When you donate, tell us the name of who you want the love note sent to and include an address.

Click here for the Norm:al Africa website and Facebook page.

Our shirts were recently on Bravo’s The People’s Couch. Shirt worn by Scott Nevins. 

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Project Update: Norm:al Africa

Project Kinect launched the United States Norm:al Africa t-shirt campaign in mid-October. We have begun to create some traction and are excited as the next month will be fantastic.  If you want to learn more or donate, here is the Go Fund Me page.   Additionally, here is the website and Facebook Page.

Here is a video about the creator of the t-shirt campaign and why she wanted to start it.

Thank you to everyone who has endorsed us.

If you want to help or partner with the campaign in any way besides donating, please email info@projectkinect.com.

 

Causes We Love: Empowering Allies

Every marginalized community needs to know who their allies are and how to empower them.  Empowerment can only happen with patience and education. Patience is necessary for following new allies through the journey of becoming an ally. They may need time to learn the tools and vocabulary necessary to being a powerful ally.  This process often requires changes in the new ally’s behavior so patience is needed for that as well.

Education is a process and goes hand in hand with patience.  There must be different forms of education in order to best meet the learning needs of new allies.  Also, a list of resources and tools must be readily available for assisting new allies. For new allies, guidelines should be presented so they can visualize how best to be helpful and advocate for the marginalized group.  University of Missouri Kansas City has an excellent list of guidelines for becoming an ally.  This list is specific to being an ally for the LGBTQ community, but if can easily be adapted for other types of marginalized groups.

It may not be obvious to all, but the largest marginalized community in the world is women.  Men must learn how to advocate for women because men are the most powerful allies when fighting harassment, poorly created and hateful legislation, and basic equality issues. A cartoon recently created by Robot Hugs does an excellent job of illustrating what women go through and turning that into ways men can be allies and not perpetuate the problem.  Take some time on Robot Hugs page.  WE LOVE ROBOT HUGS! Here is a teaser of the cartoon.

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Additionally, organizations and corporations can become allies in this still male dominated world.  We sometimes do not recognize that it is happening when these large groups are being allies, but it happens. If we recognize it, then we become better allies.  Project Kinect believes we are all involved (#WAAI) and this is true when advocating for any marginalized community.  Here is an excellent example of a larger organization being an ally for women.  Thank you Buzzfeed!