Tiger's Eye Collective was founded in direct response to the escalating gender based violence, physical & political attacks against Black queer + trans, gender nonconforming, lesbian, gay, bi folks in the South and across the country
We must defend all our communities from racism, homophobia, transphobia & xenophobia.
We must reclaim our political, social & cultural survival spaces without emulating the same
misogynistic culture we seek to transform.
We must reclaim our political, social & cultural survival spaces without emulating the same
misogynistic culture we seek to transform.
For special gifts and donations to help us seed and grow this project please send an email to: tigerseyecollective@gmail.com
Our Team
Ashe Helm-Hernández
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Ashe Helm-Hernández | Co-Founder & Coordinator of Tiger's Eye Collective
Ashe is a queer southern Black butch with roots in Louisville, KY. They are the Southerners On New Ground (SONG) Project Coordinator & Co-Editor of TCA Special issue #44 - March 2017. Their background includes teaching adult education, youth advocacy and development, and community organizing. Ashe was a Program Coordinator at Project South: Institute for the Elimination of Poverty and Genocide, where they co-edited Black Youth Power Rising, Project South 2015. Ashe most recently co-founded Tiger’s Eye Collective - a Queer Security: Cultural and Educational project. They have over 15 years of experience in Human Right to Education advocacy, leadership development, and youth mentoring as a cultural worker and artist. |
Ansley Pope
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Ansley Pope | Youth Leader, Tiger's Eye Collective
Pope is a Black, queer, transmasculine person born and raised in South Carolina. Though he was born in the small town of Aiken, the move to Charleston in 2012 gave him deeper understanding of community organizing. This understanding was found within Carolina Youth Action Project (née) Girls Rock Charleston where he was an organizer for two years. During this time he has also found a political home within Southerners on New Ground over the past three years. He joins Tigers Eye Collective with an excitement to bring tactical and training support and the willingness to learn and engage with new and old friends. |
Solutions for ALL CommunitiesTiger's Eye Collective was seeded to create possibilities that will bring us out of fear, isolation and work towards a southern region, nation and world free of violence, economic oppression and repression.
We are building a kinship, skills and resource exchange network that seeks to aid individual, organizational and collective interventions on the culture of violence so many of us experience, and create strategic alternatives that build our autonomy from the state and its own inherent violence against our own. We believe in investing in the people and formations that have always sought to protect + defend us no matter who is in political office, and we seek to implement local to regional economic development strategies that align with our vision for leadership, skills and resource exchange. We are undaunted while upholding a majestic presence Self-ruling and Self-governing
We resist the daily violence in our lives and transform ourselves and our region by building cover for all people willing to protect + defend one another |
The Stone Tiger's Eye grounds us with Self-Confidence, Empowerment, and Protection.
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TIGER'S EYE COLLECTIVE |
Empowering Groups to Create Self-Determined Spaces
Join Tiger's Eye Today! Email us at: Tigerseyecollective@gmail.com |