Harambec works for and with Black women and Black non-binary people, affirming that their will to live, heal, and build is a fundamental political act. The organization is dedicated to creating spaces of care, political education, memory, and solidarity, in active opposition to oppressive and dehumanizing systems.
We believe that caring for one another is a form of radical resistance, and that building autonomous, joyful, and powerful communities requires normalizing solidarity, intergenerational transmission, and political confrontation.
VISION
Harambec envisions a world where Black women and Black non-binary people can live, make decisions, pass on knowledge, create, and organize outside of imposed survival logics. A world where our lives are no longer compromised, but instead nourished by mutual aid, political solidarity, and collective care.
We work to create the conditions for a dignified life, radically opposed to erasure, dispossession, and exploitation. This vision is rooted in a diversity of political strategies: cultivating autonomy, strengthening our solidarities, and multiplying spaces for organizing, memory, and mutual support.
VALUES
1. Care and Interdependence
Harambec’s mission is grounded in the deep conviction that caring for one another is a radical form of resistance to systemic oppression. For Harambec, cultivating a counter-culture of care is a vital political strategy — one that challenges dehumanization, resists the erasure of experienced violence, and preserves our humanity in the face of daily brutality.
Within this framework, Harambec normalizes and uplifts acts of solidarity, mutual aid, and protection as core components of our collective response to capitalist violence. The organization is committed to creating spaces where Black women and Black non-binary people can care for one another, while building territories of freedom to inhabit, share, and protect.
2. Political Education
Political education is a pillar of Harambec’s mission. The organization is dedicated to creating spaces where Black women and Black non-binary people can collectively confront difficult truths, deconstruct dominant narratives, and strengthen their ability to imagine alternative worlds.
This process aims to build powerful communities within and through difference, capable of resisting, transmitting, and grounding themselves amid the chaos of the current world.
3. Living Memory & Transmission
Harambec is also committed to active memory work: honoring, preserving, and learning from past generations, their struggles, and their worldviews. The organization believes that the liberation of Black women and Black non-binary people is inseparable from the living transmission of knowledge, stories, and experiences.
4. Autonomy & Community Agency
As Black women and Black non-binary people, we unconditionally claim our right to define our own methods of resistance and to lead our liberation movements as autonomous political subjects. Our struggle is rooted in the belief that only a self-determined approach can lead to our emancipation.
Harambec is committed to building unwavering autonomy — both individual and collective — as the cornerstone of our resistance. This pursuit of autonomy is the foundation on which we build our capacity to make sovereign decisions and act with unshakable freedom against oppressive structures.
Our logo
In the words of our artist Noka Palm Tree : I wanted to create a custom type based design that was geometric, fluid and symmetrical. The letters give the impression of a cityscape representative of the organization being based in Montreal, Quebec. The letters are connected by a vertical line to represent the currents of the different aspects of the communal bonding black people of marginalized genders share. A circle starts at the stem of the ‘H’ and ends at the instroke and oustroke of the letter ‘C’. Although it takes action to birth something new, the ebb and flow of reciprocity is never ending.
