Personal information
- First name
- Tyrone
- Last name
- Boucher
- Organization
- AORTA Collective
- Interests
- Tyrone Boucher is an organizer, trainer, writer, and artist currently based in Belfast, Maine. He is passionate about grassroots healing and cultural work, transformative justice, and anticapitalist, community-rooted models of resource sharing. He first become politicized through queer, trans, and feminist organizing, and now finds his political home in broad-based movements for liberation; he believes that all of our liberation is bound up together, and that true social change is a collective process. He works closely with the Bay Area based POOR Magazine, a poor and indigenous people-led grassroots organization, doing economic justice work through art, organizing, grassroots media, education, and multigenerational community building., Tyrone worked in food co-ops for five years, at both the Wheatsville Food Co-op in Austin, TX, and the Mariposa Food Coop in Philadelphia, where he co-founded the Food Justice and Anti-Racism working group. In 2008, Tyrone co-founded the blog Enough: The Personal Politics of Resisting Capitalism, a space to share strategies for creating more just and economically sustainable movements, with Dean Spade. Building off the critical conversations Enough inspired, Tyrone and Dean are now co-editing a new anthology of the same title. Tyrone was named one of UTNE Reader's 50 Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World in 2009 and is featured in the book Do It Anyway: Portraits of the Next Generation of Activists, from Beacon Press.
History
- Member for
- 1 year 4 weeks
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