Black women, girls, and gender-expansive people are deciding how to show up in the electoral process for ourselves and our communities.

By engaging in elections across the ballot, we can shape policies that directly affect us, shift material conditions, and work toward a Black feminist liberated future.

We’re not just telling you to vote; we’re making sure you have a whole guide to get you and your squad to the polls ready to vote like Black feminists.

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What is Progressive Policy-Making?

Our Goal

BFF's commitment to elections is a commitment to Build Power Like a Black Feminists through Voting Like Black Feminists. We define this work as progressive policymaking, the kind of voter turnout that actually shifts material conditions for Black women, girls, and gender-expansive people, and electoral accountability for candidates who win their races.

We are building power so that the people making decisions about our schools, our streets, our utility bills, our bodies, and our safety are accountable to us.

When BFF says “progressive policy,” we mean policy that:

Redistributes resources toward the people who need them most, rather than protecting the people who already have the most.
Protects bodily autonomy and reproductive freedom as a baseline, not a bargaining chip.
Keeps the lights, water, and heat on (“We Ain’t Got It”)
Strengthens the social safety net that our communities have always had to build for ourselves when the state failed to.
Chips away at the interlocking systems of racism, patriarchy, capitalism, and imperialism.