Cookie’s Joint is a community giving circle that operates with the intention of offering monthly financial support to hyper-marginalized Black and Brown LGBTQIA folks in the hopes of ending cycles of survival fundraising. Cookie’s Joint is a project created in the home of disabled Black bisexual couple, Neje and Yaya Bailey in response to our ever increasing desire to be more active in a social ju
stice movement that often excludes, erases, or simply doesn’t make space for the labor and contributions of its disabled members. After two years of serving y(our) communities, the folks who dreamt up Cookie's Joint learned a lot about what it means to care for each other in ways that value the labor and contributions of Crip, Disabled, and Chronically Ill people. The Cookie's Joint Giving Circle is committed to making it easy/accessible for you to lend your offerings to this intention by creating monthly postings that will include various ways (links, handles, etc.) Cookie’s Joint is named in honor of Neje’s late mother Salome “Cookie” Brown, a disabled black le***an and drug counselor who, along with her partner of 24 years, Nettie Carrier, consistently made their home and limited resources available to their community, helping many to survive. This assistance centered other members of her own LGBTQI community, especially mothers, who could legally have their children taken away at the time if they were accused of being le***an/bisexual and the children of folks in treatment for addiction during the heroin/crack epidemic of the 1980’s.
