Welcome to the home of BBIPOC* Friends
A group led in the spirit and manner of the Society of Friends (Quakers)
Mission, Vision, and Values for BBIPOC Friends*
(*We understand the global majority to be “people of color”; including people of Asian, Pacific Island and African origin, Turtle Islanders, Aboriginal peoples and those who feel they land in between. We hold this language carefully, knowing that no single phrase can honor the specificity and distinctness of every person in our community without risk of erasure or homogenization. This is a living title for a living movement. We commit to continuous discernment—revisiting and refining our language, values, and structures as our collective consciousness evolves and truth becomes clearer)
show moreMission
To nurture a living movement of Black, Brown, Indigenous, and People of Color* within the Religious Society of Friends and beyond — a community reclaiming spiritual, cultural, and material wholeness through collective discernment, reparative justice, and transformative love.
We act from the understanding that the truth speaks through every body and culture; our task is to dismantle domination in all its forms, heal our relationships, and restore balance within the web of life.
Vision
We envision a spiritually grounded fellowship where Friends of Color and their allies co-create a decolonized Quakerism — one rooted in justice, joy, and embodied equality.
In this vision:
- Our silence is not erasure but spaciousness.
- Our discernment is not for bureaucracy but for liberation.
- Our being together radiates from ancestral memory and future possibility.
We seek a world where truth and friendships move freely across color, creed, and continent, and where reparative acts of solidarity repair the ruptures of our history.
Values
1. Justice-Centered Faith
Our spiritual practice begins with equity, liberation, and the active undoing of colonial, racist, and extractive systems. We choose: marginalised voices more than privilege, resistance more than compliance, action more than silence, discernment more than impulse, praxis more than dogma, and active ministry more than passive laity.
2. Community Self-Determination
Those most impacted define their needs, set priorities, and lead the work; our strength is the collective voice of those once silenced. We turn the mirror towards ourselves also, seeking to identify and repair harm that we do and is done to one another.
3. Mutual Care and Reparative Action
Love takes tangible form: in shared resources, accountability, and the practice of paying forward what has been withheld. We identify harm and work towards reparative action to guide our collective decision-making. Nothing about us, without us.
4. Truth and Transformation
We name what has been hidden — within ourselves, our meetings, and our histories — trusting that revealing truth opens the way for collective renewal. We acknowledge that all our minds are “socialised” and waking up this is core to becoming our authentic selves.
5. Ancestral Continuity
We honor those whose convictions and resistance brought us to this moment; their wisdom and courage are the foundation for our becoming.
6. Radical Simplicity
We center love, authenticity, and friendship
7. Creative Joy
Our rhythm — drummed, sung, or silent — becomes our resistance and our renewal. Every act of joy is a declaration of freedom.
show lessAbout
How we began and our mission, vision and values
Our first session summary
Our session 2A
Our session 2B
Justice through Art
Our sessions