Queer Kids Care x Black Lives Matter
is a conglomerate of young, like-minded individuals of varying financial and ethnic backgrounds who hold candle light vigils and bring healing to downtown Ithaca, NY. In doing so, we hope to bring issues that disproportionately affect the LGBTQIA and POC community to the forefront of your reality because they are pervasive in ours. Our goal is to provide a community space for citizens to heal from issues of oppression in intersectional and POC communities, and to understand the need for social and political reform. We will host vigils, sleet or shine, until justice is served for unarmed black people killed every 28 hours. At our vigils, we primarily represent people who have been murdered after Michael Brown Jr. in St. Louis, MO on August 9th. We’re bringing awareness to the alarming rate at which unarmed POC are killed by the police.