Project Blackbird's mission is to inspire and advocate for collective healing, wellness and liberation of Black communities. Led by current and former sex workers and their allies, Project Blackbird's ConsentConscious program uses art, workshops, and digital media strategy to advocate for more comprehensive, sex-work informed education that support practices of consent that promote overall health, pleasure, and safety. Their goal is to imagine and roll-out consent education & accountability mechanisms that uplift pleasure while eliminating harm.
The Mobilize Power Fund (January 2017) supported their series of events regarding the case of Tondalo Hall, including a healing justice demonstration, a photo exhibition, a youth event, and a media campaign to center the stories of women of color who have been impacted by incarceration and/or trauma.
The Mobilize Power Fund (September 2017) supported their bail out campaign, storytelling project, and direct actions centering the experiences of Black cisgender women and gender non-conforming people in Oklahoma City's women's jails.
The Sex Worker Giving Circle (2019-2020) provided a two-year grant to support ConsentConscious provide sex-work informed consent education in order to help overturn archaic laws related to consent and sex work in North Carolina. Project Blackbird organizers have been doing this work pro bono; funding allows organizers to be compensated for the labor that goes into creating and offering sex worker-centered consent curriculum to the general public.
