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  • About Us
    • About Us
    • Values & History
    • Past Events
  • Events & Updates
  • Letterwriting Project
  • What Is...
    • Abolition
    • Prison Industrial Complex
    • Impact of the PIC on LGBTQ+ Lives
  • Resources
  • Study Group
  • Online Store
    • Tote Bags
    • Shirts

Highlights from the past 8 years


2020
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Saw a transition of all of our events transition to an online, remote world
Invited our community to sign up online to send monthly birthday cards to our incarcerated Black & Pink members in CA
"Tabled" virtually as a sponsor of SF Trans March
Held the 4th round of our prison abolition study group (the second round of the Inside/Outside format)
Grew both our inside and outside leadership teams
Sent over $1550 inside, both as honorariums to inside members for their participation in the study group as well as in the form of commissary funds to assist members in accessing needed supplies to protect themselves during the COVID-19 outbreak

2019
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Expanded our letterwriting to include monthly events in SF and Oakland
Started to send birthday cards to to all of our Black & Pink members incarcerated in CA
Tabled at SF Trans March
Sent postcards to over 100 trans prisoners across the west coast
Organized for the 4th round of our prison abolition study group

2018

Tabled at SF Trans March
Sent postcards to over 150 trans prisoners across the west coast
Tabled at the Anarchist Bookfair and lead a workshop there
Lead workshops in several other spaces
Continued monthly leadership dinners and grew our leadership team
Continued monthly letterwriting events in Oakland

2017

Started to organize visits to meet our inside members in person
Supported the launch of 
ABO Comix
Tabled at SF Trans March
Sent postcards to over 100 trans prisoners across the west coast
Continued monthly leadership dinners
Continued monthly letterwriting events, now just in Oakland
Designed our first t-shirt

2016

Focused more on building our inside and free world leadership circles
Started monthly leadership dinners
Continued monthly letterwriting events in SF and Oakland
Organized a blanket area at SF Trans March
Sent postcards to over 350 queer & trans prisoners in 5 nearby prisons
Sent postcards to over 350 queer & trans prisoners in 5 nearby prisons at our annual winter holiday events

2015

Offered the 3rd round of our prison abolition study group, which was our first inside/outside study group
Continued monthly letterwriting events in SF and Oakland
Led workshops at SF State and elsewhere
Sent postcards to over 150 queer & trans prisoners in Northern California at our annual winter holiday events


2014

Became a chapter of Black & Pink, after an international roundtable of LGBTQ+ Prisoner Solidarity Projects 
Led our first workshops in May and September (Caging Deviance: An Introduction The Prison Industrial Complex & Queer Resistance)
Continued to offer and refine the structure of our monthly letterwriting nights
Offered the 2nd round of our free world prison abolition study group

2013

Launched our project independently as Flying Over Walls after splintering from HAVOQ
Sent a flagging contingent to the February 26th Chowchilla Freedom Rally at Valley State Prison
Sent over 100 holiday cards to incarcerated folks in Northern California during 4 holiday cardmaking events
Started the first round of our free world prison abolition study group

2012

A banner drop and contingent in support of the February 20th Occupy San Quentin event
Hosted a Valentines for Prisoners event with CCWP
Showed up in support of the Valentine’s Day fundraiser put on by Justice NOW!, CURB, TGIJP, and others
​by hosting a Valentines for Prisoners table and a photo booth.

2011

Originally started as a project within HAVOQ / SF Pride at Work, inspired by Montreal Prisoner Correspondence Project
Began having monthly meetings to learn and letterwrite

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