About Us
Our Vision
We envision a future where all people have what they need to live in dignity, freedom, and joy, and to self-determine the shape and direction of their lives and families. In our liberated future, we exist in thriving communities interdependent with the Earth, where we radically love, respect, and share leadership and power with each other.
Our Mission
Forward Together is a national reproductive justice organization that centers peoples, families, and communities who experience reproductive oppression. We prioritize queer, trans, Black, Indigenous, and other peoples of color. We utilize a cultural strategy to shift the ways we think about family and to build power and movements, grounded in our lived experiences, histories, theories and struggles for reproductive justice.
Our Politics
Forward Together is a reproductive justice organization. We shift the cultural conception of family through our queer and trans liberation frameworks and our history in reproductive justice.
Our Approach
Forward Together has always harnessed the power of culture to build courage, create connections, and make change—from our work on family definition with Family Values @ Work and the Family Justice Network to our Mamas Day and TDOR projects from our critical media and education interventions to our groundbreaking thought leadership. This work is part of our DNA—and it’s never been more necessary. As anti-abortion and anti-trans wedges threaten to split reproductive justice and LGBTQ movements, our approach can create greater solidarity, bring in more people power, and lift up solutions for and by those most marginalized.
We shift culture.
We shift culture. We transform shared beliefs and practices around family, care, and bodily autonomy. By collaborating deeply with cultural workers—artists, storytellers, educators, and more—we create meaningful opportunities for individuals to connect, learn, imagine new futures, and act toward building them together. Through visionary projects like Trans Day of Resilience focused on iteration, shareability, grassroots activation, strategic dissemination and memorable experiences, we create the cultural conditions for long-term change.
We build movements.
We build movements. We grow the people-power of our movements by activating individuals, weaving them into our networks, and strengthening connections between organizations. We build across strategies and issue areas, creating opportunities for collaboration and shared learning while lifting up the leadership of cultural workers. We incubate new projects and organizations—from comprehensive healthcare clinics in New Mexico and Oregon to the birth-worker led Queerception—to build movement infrastructure.
We change structures and policies.
We change structures and policies. We support structures and policies that remove barriers, advance bodily autonomy, and increase care for trans and queer people experiencing reproductive oppression. With our network of leaders, organizations, and cultural workers, we identify proactive policies, candidates, campaigns, and other structural and cultural interventions to make through both our C3 and C4. In New Mexico, we have passed reproductive healthcare and healthcare for all policies while supporting candidates and campaigns that secure bodily autonomy and access to care.