Caribbean Equality Project

The Caribbean Equality Projects launched its monthly Food Justice program in response to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and its economic crises impacting Caribbean-centric neighborhoods across New York City. Collectively, with its community partners and elected officials, the organization distributes culturally responsive groceries, fresh produce, PPE, toiletries, period products, safe sex kits, and coats and toys, especially during the Thanksgiving, Diwali, Christmas, and Kwanzaa holidays. In 2022, the organization served over 16,200+ low-income and undocumented LGBTQ+ people, immigrant families, seniors, single-parent households, and HIV-impacted people through the organizations food justice program. CEP has organized over 9+ hyper-local pop-up pantries in Flatbush, Brooklyn, and Soundview, in The Bronx, serving an average of 350-450 families

Caribbean Equality Projects Live Pridefully: Love and Resilience within Pandemics exhibition celebrated queer and trans Caribbean resilience through a racial justice lens,fostering critical conversations related to pride, migration, surviving colliding pandemics,and coming out narratives. Caribbean diasporic immigrant rights, gender justice, and trans rights advocates live at the intersections of outdated immigration policies, anti-Black violence, racism, homophobia, transphobia, gender-based violence, xenophobia, and misogyny in the United States and throughout the Caribbean region. Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, queer and trans immigrants of color have lived ina constant state of fear and isolation, from food insecurity, and a lack of access toequitable healthcare, to rising rates of anti-Asian violence and police brutality against