About Us
Freedom Action Now (FAN) advances the feminist abolitionist agenda, mobilizing allies to support grassroots organizations led by working class Black, Southeast Asian, and other women and queer people of color in Wisconsin.
Freedom Action Now (FAN) advances the feminist abolitionist agenda, mobilizing allies to support grassroots organizations led by working class Black, Southeast Asian, and other women and queer people of color in Wisconsin.
Black Women Are Not Safe Until the Systems That Target Them Are Dismantled.
Black women experience state violence, poverty, and gender-based violence not as separate issues but as interlocking conditions of the same system. Defending Black women means fighting on all fronts simultaneously — and following the leadership of the Black women who have always led the fight for their own liberation.
The police who kill Black men also terrorize Black women. The same housing system that displaces Black families disproportionately evicts Black mothers. The same healthcare system that fails Black communities subjects Black women to higher rates of maternal mortality, medical neglect, and reproductive coercion. The same criminal legal system that incarcerates Black men at staggering rates also prosecutes Black women for surviving — for defending themselves, for providing for their children, for existing in a system that criminalizes poverty.
Defending Black women is not a single-issue campaign. It is a political commitment to fight every system that makes Black women unsafe — and to follow the leadership of Black women in doing so.
FAN provides material support to grassroots organizations led by Black women that are fighting for housing justice, healthcare access, community-based responses to harm, and an end to the criminalization of survival. We mobilize allies to show up, provide resources, and follow their direction.
What material support looks like: Numbers at actions. Research capacity for policy fights. Digital amplification of Black women-led campaigns. Resources for the direct services that keep Black women alive — bail funds, transportation, childcare, legal support. Political legitimacy from a broad coalition saying: defending Black women is not optional. It is the measure of whether our movements are serious.
The organizations led by Black women that FAN follows set the agenda, the demands, and the strategy. FAN's role is to provide the material support they request — not to define the work, but to resource it.
