Barricades: A Les Mis Convention has announced Black & Pink National as this year’s Charity Partner.
Black & Pink National is a prison abolitionist organization, located in the United States, that supports LGBTQ and HIV-positive prisoners.
“As we continue to grow as an organization, a family, and a community of accomplices – we will always hold true to our foundational and radical beliefs in the capacity for good, in the abilities of all people to be the best versions of themselves, and to dismantle the systems that plague our communities. We will always be partners with those impacted by the prison industrial complex, the atrocities it enacts, and we will not rest until it is completely dismantled. Because we not only imagine a world without prisons, we demand it.”
– Black & Pink National
In 2022, Black & Pink National produced a PBS special: Incarcerated LGBTQ Americans find little to no support system upon release. The segment, embedded below, brings to light not only the inequity LGBTQ people face within the justice system, but their lack of support as they reenter society.
The organization’s mission, paired with Hugo’s commentary on the criminal justice system, makes them a logical partner for this year’s event.
Click here to visit their website for more information.
