Soulforce Recruiting Social Justice Leaders for Solandres

New Online Community to Tackle Multiple forms of Oppression

Soulforce was founded as an organization with the purpose of nonviolent resistance of oppression of LGBTQ people by religious fundamentalists. During our fifteen years of activism, we have made tremendous strides in engaging anti-LGBTQ forces to stop the violence of their words, policies, and actions by showing the human face of the suffering they have caused.

Soulforce staff, volunteers, and activists have always realized that oppression wears many masks – racism, sexism, ageism and ableism, and exclusions based on one’s religion, immigration status, and economic class. We have found inspiration in the dignity and ingenuity of those who have blazed the trail of nonviolent activism, particularly in the African-American civil rights movement in the United States and the anti-colonialist movement in India.

Our teachers have always told us, “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” So with the understanding we have gained from working on issues of LGBTQ liberation, Soulforce finds itself growing and adapting to take on multiple issues of oppression as they relate to religious fundamentalism. The term for this is “intersectional justice,” which is just a way of saying we can do work that leads to justice across multiple forms of oppression without forgetting the experience of our own journey.

You can read more about Solandres as conceived by
Director of Online Community Zachary Pullin.

If you or someone you know fits the description listed above as
a dynamic LGBTQ or ally leader who wants to work across systems of oppression, please Download an Application Here!