DiDi Delgado
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DiDi Delgado (born 1984) is a poet, Black liberation organizer, freelance journalist and activist. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Delgado co-founded Black Lives Matter Cambridge in 2015.[1] Other topics on which Delgado advocates include police abolition, LGBTIQ rights and mutual aid[2]
Delgado is the founder of the reparations and anti-racism platform Done For DiDi.[citation needed] The Done for DiDi - White Labor Collective is an online community led by Black Marginalized Genders (Black women and non-men) that provides anti-racism education to white people and direct cash assistance to Black Marginalized Genders.[citation needed]
Delgado is cited in The Boston Globe,[3][4] USA Today,[5] The Root,[6] Democracy Now!,[7] NBC News,[8] ProPublica,[9] Slate,[10] and Vanity Fair.[11]
Delgado has written for Huffington Post,[12] YES! Magazine,[13] Observer,[14] Medium,[15] and Shelterforce.[16]
Activism and Organizing
Public Speaking
In 2021, Delgado gave the Keynote Speech at the Rutland Area third annual NAACP Freedom Fund Dinner.[17][18]
In 2017, Delgado spoke alongside Patrisse Khan-Cullors, Janaya Khan and Elle Hearns at the Black Lives Matter Cambridge Symposium.[19]
Fight Supremacy March
In 2017, Delgado was involved in organizing the Fight Supremacy march in Boston - a counter protest to the Boston Free Speech Rally - attended by an estimated 40,000 people.[8] Following this, right-wing rallies that had been planned to take place in 36 states were canceled. Delgado rejected Resolutionary honors from Boston City Council for organizing the Fight Supremacy march. In an open letter to the then Mayor, Marty Walsh, Delgado cited police charges against those who were allegedly unjustly arrested for taking part as reasons for not accepting the award.[20]
Unitarian Universalism
In 2018, Delgado became one of the first organizers for Black Lives of Unitarian Universalism (UU), a group of Black UUs "working to expand the role and visibility of Black people" within the Unitarian Universalist faith.[21]
Community arts and artistry
Delgado addresses racism through poetry and has been performing their own work since 2014.[8] In 2017 Delgado gave a guest performance at Harvard.[22]
Delgado is Head of Operations for The Society of Urban Poetry (S.O.U.P.), a collective of literary poets and spoken word artists across the Boston area.[23]
In 2021, Delgado was one of 12 artists invited to take part in the first Converging Liberations Residency organized by the Boston-based CreateWell Fund. Hosted in the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art[24], the residency aims to support community building, research and artistic experimentation across disciplines for artists, creatives, and community organizers who self-identify as Black, Indigenous, or a Person of Color.[25]
Delgado is a Member of the Honorary Board of Cambridge Community Television (CCTV).[26]
Podcast
During COVID-19 quarantine in April 2020, Delgado launched The Full Set, a podcast that centers the voices of Black Marginalized Genders.[27] Delgado recorded and released 70 episodes in under 12 months. Guests included adrienne maree brown, Feminista Jones, Ijeoma Oluo, Janaya Khan, and Sonya Renee Taylor.
Philanthropy
Delgado's online platform #DoneForDiDi fundraises and redistributes cash as reparations to Black Marginalized Genders (Black women and non-men).[citation needed]
In December 2020, Delgado collaborated with The Black Fairy Godmother, Simone Gordon, on Rent For Moms which raised $37,420 to cover the cost of housing for 20 single mothers across the United States.[28] Delgado's nonprofit organization, Done For DiDi, ran the campaign again in 2022 whilst raising awareness of housing discrimination in the United States in collaboration with nine other Black community organizers,[29][30] including Tanya Faison of Black Lives Matter Sacramento.[31]
Opinion
Delgado is an outspoken advocate for reparations,[32] wealth redistribution,[33] and intersectional solidarity.[33]
Delgado gained prominence for calling out Mark Zuckerberg[9] for the censorship of Black users' Facebook accounts for speaking out against racism, including Leslie Mac[34] and Sherronda J. Brown of Wear Your Voice Magazine.[35]
Delgado speaks frequently on the problems with white-led anti-racism groups such as SURJ (Stand Up for Racial Justice)[36].
References
- ↑ Delgado, The DiDi (2018-01-23). "48 Hours With a Social Justice Superhero by Harry Harding". Medium. Retrieved 2021-10-27.
- ↑ Potrykus, Sam (9 January 2023). "Rent for Moms: Art, Activism, and Mutual Aid w/ Done for DiDi". Boston Compass Newspaper. Retrieved 9 January 2023.
- ↑ Fox Globe, Jeremy C. (8 July 2016). "Black Lives Matter group holds Boston vigil in wake of shootings - The Boston Globe". BostonGlobe.com. Retrieved 2021-09-17.
- ↑ "Cambridge asks for residents for feedback on reparations, restitution proposals - The Boston Globe". BostonGlobe.com. Retrieved 2021-10-27.
- ↑ Guynn, Jessica. "Facebook while black: Users call it getting 'Zucked,' say talking about racism is censored as hate speech". USA TODAY. Retrieved 2021-09-17.
- ↑ "Facebook Will Ban You for Talking About White Men. Black Children and Muslims? Not So Much". The Root. 28 June 2017. Retrieved 2021-09-17.
- ↑ "Black Lives Matter Activists Chain Themselves Together to Block Inauguration Checkpoint". Democracy Now!. Retrieved 2023-04-10.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 "Boston activist uses poetry and protest in fight for equality". NBC News. Retrieved 2021-09-22.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Angwin, Julia; Grassegger, Hannes. "Facebook's Secret Censorship Rules Protect White Men From Hate Speech But Not Black Children". ProPublica. Retrieved 2021-09-22.
- ↑ Glaser, April (2017-08-10). "Airbnb Banned Neo-Nazis From Booking This Weekend—and Set a New Standard for How Tech Can Fight Hate". Slate Magazine. Retrieved 2021-09-22.
- ↑ Nast, Condé (2018-01-02). "Facebook Is Losing the War on Hate Speech". Vanity Fair. Retrieved 2021-09-22.
- ↑ "DiDi Delgado | HuffPost".
- ↑ "You Liked That Heineken Ad? Well, It Was Worse Than the Pepsi One". YES! Magazine. Retrieved 2021-09-22.
- ↑ "This Heineken Ad Is Worse Than Pepsi's Kendall Jenner Commercial". Observer. 2017-05-12. Retrieved 2021-09-17.
- ↑ "The DiDi Delgado". Medium. Retrieved 2021-09-17.
- ↑ Delgado, DiDi (2017-07-26). "Just as I Suspected, Paying Rent Is Racist". Shelterforce. Retrieved 2021-10-27.
- ↑ Brown, Erin. "NAACP to celebrate accomplishments at Freedom Fund Dinner". WCAX. Retrieved 2021-10-27.
- ↑ Writer, Jim Sabataso Staff. "Rutland NAACP honors local leaders". Rutland Herald. Retrieved 2021-10-27.
- ↑ "Black Lives Matter Cambridge Symposium – Massachusetts Peace Action". masspeaceaction.org. Retrieved 2021-10-27.
- ↑ "An open letter to Mayor Marty Walsh of Boston". 23 August 2017.
- ↑ Bulletin, Community (2017-09-24). "Black Lives organizer DiDi Delgado to preach at Beacon on Oct. 1". nj. Retrieved 2021-11-01.
- ↑ Correspondent, Deborah Blackwell Harvard (2017-06-05). "Tef Poe and friends 'break bread' at free Harvard Ed Portal show". Harvard Gazette. Retrieved 2021-10-27.
- ↑ "Info: About Us". Society of Urban Poetry. Retrieved 22 September 2021.
- ↑ "Converging Liberations Residency 2021".
- ↑ "Residency — the CreateWell Fund".
- ↑ Biurher, Yurii. "CCTV - Key People | aiHit". www.aihitdata.com. Retrieved 2021-11-03.
- ↑ "The Full Set".
- ↑ "The DiDi Delgado". Instagram.
- ↑ Axel-Lute, Miriam (2022-12-21). "Instead of Toys, These Organizers Want You to Give Rent Money". Shelterforce. Retrieved 2022-12-28.
- ↑ Abbey-Lambertz, Kate (2022-12-15). "Meet Fiyah Angel, Detroit organizer with Rent for Moms and healing activist • Outlier Media". Outlier Media. Retrieved 2022-12-28.
- ↑ "'It's a phenomenal opportunity' | Here's how you can help Black single moms this holiday season". abc10.com. December 19, 2022. Retrieved 2022-12-28.
- ↑ "Cambridge asks for residents for feedback on reparations, restitution proposals - The Boston Globe". BostonGlobe.com. Retrieved 2021-10-27.
- ↑ 33.0 33.1 Delgado, The DiDi (2019-05-17). "10 Ways To Pay Reparations If You're a Broke Ass White Person". Medium. Retrieved 2021-09-22.
- ↑ "Leslie Mac Tweet". Twitter. Retrieved 2021-09-22.
- ↑ Delgado, The DiDi (2017-05-19). "Mark Zuckerberg Hates Black People". Medium. Retrieved 2021-09-22.
- ↑ "Whites Only: SURJ And The Caucasian Invasion Of Racial Justice Spaces". HuffPost. 2017-04-03. Retrieved 2021-10-27.
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