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Please read on our website (qtbb.org) why we decided to become a nonprofit and how we wrote our legal documents to decentralize power within the organization. We were originally founded in 2004 and maintained being an autonomous artist collective until we decided to incorporation as a 501c3 in 2024, twenty years later, so we could better subvert resources from the NPIC those for whom we are working with. Read below for more on how we are keeping our organizing autonomous and led by those we serve. Check out our Guideposts on what this looks like for us.

We recently changed our name to qtbb because we had some rough times and lost our url and we felt like it was a good prompting for a “rebranding.”

This comes from one of our founders who coined qt in 2010 as a shorthand for queer and trans and pronounced it cutie.
While it was never trademarked, we do not know of anyone who can trace it to before 2010 as a unique term on its own and the pronunciation. Also within our lexicon, we often call each other bb which is synonym for bae, luv, babe. So qtbb is pronounced Cutie Babe or maybe it is queer and trans black bloc. We only know that All Cats Are Black … & cute!

Fiscal Sponsor’s Guidestar: https://www.guidestar.org/profile/26-2371202
EIN: 26-2371202

Purpose:
Instigate Mutual Liberation through an intersectional feminist approach to art and healing arts.

Mission:
qtbb seeks to create new works of arts, crafts, and performances to create an intersectional living history. To this goal, we support artists and future artists of all ages with intersecting identities through programming, education, mentorship, wellness, and community as well as trainings for organizations and institutions. qtbb creates spaces to create healing and work, voice, history. qtbb implements healing arts through RAD (Radical, Accessible, Decolonizing) Care by creating mutual (aid) liberation through community care frameworks centering marginalized intersectional voices.

Vision:
We envision a world where intersectional artists are supported, visible, and contribute to the creation of a collective living history and have the resources and support to create art. We envision a world where people, artists, with marginalized identities are not subjected to oppression especially as it relates to survival. We envision a world where everyone has access to the care and resources they need and support to live their dream, whatever it may be but expressly marginalized artists and future artists. We envision a world where Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion trainings are not necessary.

Hub/COG Model
The Hub Model of Organizing is a decentralized approach where multiple smaller, autonomous groups (hubs) work together toward a shared goal while maintaining independent operations. Each hub focuses on a specific area of work or interest but is connected to a central coordinating group (the “hub”) that ensures alignment and collaboration between the hubs. This model encourages flexibility, local decision-making, and collective action, while also promoting solidarity and mutual support across the network. We call our hubs COGs aka Community Organizing Groups. Each Project has a central COG and possibly break-off COGs.

COGs provide leadership and direction to our sponsoring org. While becoming a 501c3 was not a goal, at first, after some time consensus was that Conspiracy of Geniuses would have more freedom and be able to provide better for our artists if we incorporated. That said we wrote our Articles of Incorporation (the paperwork that defines why the org should have nonprofit status), to give the COGs leadership power. The Board of Directors’ only interference is to ensure we remain legal, ethical, and sustainable. We only recently made this shift in programming so we are still trying to find our land legs but continuing projects that have been in the works for several years, a lot of this work is transferring over to qtbb but this might shift in the future. (Cough, we lost our web url but timing worked with our attempts at restructuring.) If you are interested in getting involved in any of these projects, please reach out to qtbb at RiseUp dot net and please consider donating. http://paypal.com/us/fundraiser/charity/4972795

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