Dyke March Chicago

12/12/2024

We are inviting YOU to join this cool ass event organized by community!

Feeling down about world events? Real.

Come be in your pleasure and joy with us for a bit. BIPOC's deserve joy in these times as well 😍

Masks required. 4 steps to enter the venue.

RSVP here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1J7fhlt7PzDp-Z37rEOoseY-714uTJv_j6SIl59Mh2XI/viewform?edit_requested=true

See you there!

06/26/2021

FRIENDS AND COMRADES:

d**e march 2021 will be rescheduled due to weather and related concerns (access, safety, etc).

we love you and we'll see you soon!

happy d**e march

06/26/2021

D**E MARCH STATEMENT IN SOLIDARITY WITH PALESTINE:

This year, Chicago D**e March is reaffirming our commitment to an abolitionist vision of the world—one in which indigenous, Black, brown and other oppressed people unite against the common enemies of capitalism, settler colonialism, White Supremacy, ableism and cishetero-patriarchy. We believe in a world without borders, without police, without militaries, without incarceration and without surveillance. We believe in liberation for indigenous communities from Standing Rock to Mexico to Palestine. We believe all our struggles are linked, that q***r and trans liberation cannot be extracted and isolated from broader liberation struggles.
Every LGBTQIA+ person who shares our values and our vision for a just future is welcome to join our march on Saturday, June 26th, 2021 at 2 pm in Palmer Square. This year, we designed a poster that reflects our united stance as Qu**rs against state violence—be it carried out by military or police, at home or abroad. Our design, created by artist Ingrid Rodriguez, features a Black femme burning the flags of two violent settler-colonial states: the United States and Israel. Just as we support the Land Back Movement’s demand for indigenous liberation in the Americas, we support Palestinians’ demand for liberation in their homeland.

We are accustomed to drawing the hatred of White supremacists. Over the past weeks as we have planned for our march, Instagram and Facebook’s censorship has intensified and our events and accounts have been deleted on multiple occasions. Our DMs have been full of hate mail and death threats, as well as promises to call a notoriously violent police department to our event.

Zionist organizations like the ADL, the Jewish United Fund, The American Jewish Committee, and A Wider Bridge, even issued a statement dismissing our work and slandering us with the charge of anti-Semitism. We reaffirm our right and the right of anyone with a conscience to critique the state of Israel. We refuse the bait-and-switch that conflates critiques of Zionism, a White Supremacist and settler colonial political ideology, with anti-Semitism. We marvel that Pink Washing continues to be used to justify Israel’s crimes against Palestinians. We follow the leadership of our Q***r Palestinian organizers and siblings who have called on us to show solidarity with the Palestinian cause.

In solidarity,
D**e March

11/02/2020

08/14/2020

Hey lovely souls,

One of our beloved farmers needs our support in securing the Beginning Farmer of the Year award. Please vote for Dulce Morales. I promise you, Dulce has gifted nothing short of magic to so many young qpoc farmers.

Let's support her with a vote as she has given so much joy, food, and light to many communities (& individuals).

The poll closes on August 17 just four days from now. Feel free to share!

https://routes2farm.org/about/farmeraward/

Thx Lovelies❤

06/22/2020

Update: Our mutual aid applications will actually close on Friday, June 26th.

Yay an extra day from what was previously posted!

06/17/2020

friendly reminder: Mutual aid applications are open until June 26th.

Link to Mutual Aid:

ROUND 2 IS NOW OPEN! The Chicago D**e March Collective is providing emergency assistance to BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and people of color) who live in Chicago and are financially impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. We are prioritizing q***r, trans, intersex, disabled, and undocumented BIPOC. Please d...

06/08/2020

Friendly reminder.
Link to Mutual Aid:
https://forms.gle/Un2GMFemyi23puUz7

05/22/2020

UPDATE:
In 3 days we have received around $4,6oo in funding requests AND BECAUSE OF Y'ALL we have raised roughly $6,ooo ($5o shy)

Thank you for supporting whether it's sharing our post or donating. We are more than 1/2 way there because of y'all.

Also funny story! We didn't realize that we had a privacy setting on that restricted y'all from tag us! 😅Ha ha whoops! Feel free to tag us now **emarchchicago
We would love the boost so that we can make it to our $10,000 goal.♥️

05/20/2020

LOVELY souls! Thank y'all so much for donating, sharing, and trusting us to redistribute funds.
WE ARE IN AWE!😭
We are roughly $640 from our half way mark!
🥰🥰🥰

Let's keep this going. Please tag us in your posts!

If you have other ways of supporting don't hesitate to dm us. 😘😘😘😘
Much love and respect to our collective effort.

05/19/2020

To help our community make ends meet in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, D**e March Chicago is launching an Emergency Mutual Aid Fund for BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and people of color) who live in Chicago and are financially impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Additionally, we are prioritizing q***r, trans, intersex, disabled, and undocumented BIPOC when dispersing funds.

To kick off the first round of our Emergency Mutual Aid Fund, D**e March is releasing $4,000 of our own funds that were originally budgeted for programming and permits for our annual March, $3,000 will go to individuals and $1,000 to organizations.

But to keep the funds rolling into the community we need your support. Please donate to our GoFundMe!

Link to GoFundMe:
https://gf.me/u/x282bh

Link to Mutual Aid:
https://forms.gle/Un2GMFemyi23puUz7

We know these times are trying at every level, support can look many ways, from monies, to sharing this post, to applying (if needed), to gently loving yourself, and the community.
With that said, thank you for supporting us; before, during, and after these times. We only hope to give it back.

Much love from DMC-Chi.