Caitlin Breedlove

Caitlin Breedlove is a first-generation, white femme queer organizer who lives and builds in the South. She learns primarily from organizing with LGBTQ people in the South across many marginalized communities; particularly close to her heart are struggles and resiliencies of folks in the sex trade, immigrants, incarcerated people and our families, and youth. Paulina Hernandez is a queer femme cha-cha girl, artist, political organizer, and trouble-maker-at-large from Veracrúz, Mexico. This Xicana has a background in farmworker and immigrant rights organizing, youth organizing, anti-violence work, and cultural work. She also serves on the Board of Directors of the young feminist Third Wave Foundation in NYC.Caitlin Breedlove is a first-generation, white femme queer organizer who lives and builds in the South. She learns primarily from organizing with LGBTQ people in the South across many marginalized communities; particularly close to her heart are struggles and resiliencies of folks in the sex trade, immigrants, incarcerated people and our families, and youth.

Self-Determination in the South: A SONG Interview

Mab Segrest, Suzanne Pharr, Pam McMichael, and Pat Hussain, four of six SONG founders, in September 2008 on SONG's 15th anniversary in Durham, N.C. Photo by Zulayka Santiago.

Southerners on New Ground (SONG) is a 16-year-old gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender organization that focuses its resources and energy in the South both as a political and geographic region. On January 29, 2010, Caitlin Breedlove and Paulina Hernandez, co-directors of SONG, recorded an interview for StoryCorps, a nationwide oral history project. The following is an excerpt. Listen to the entire 40-minute recording at SONG’s website, www.southernersonnewground.org.