Our Southern Movement Media Fund supports Southern media makers who are disproportionately impacted by systemic oppression to tell the stories of their own communities.

Movement storyteller Zaira Campos (she/her) @adopteescrossinglines, one of our new grantee partners, is drawing on their lived experience to report on the intersection between abortion surveillance and child welfare investigation systems, and their negative impacts on Black, queer, disabled, and low-income families. Zaira is a Black and Puerto Rican adoptee, former foster youth, and movement storyteller based in Florida. She is the creator and host of Adoptees Crossing Lines, a podcast challenging dominant narratives about adoption and the family policing system. Her writing explores family separation, reproductive justice, disability justice, and belonging through the lens of lived experience. Through journalism, storytelling, and community building, she works to preserve memory, challenge dominant narratives, and create space for impacted people to tell their own stories. [Image description: Headshot photo of a Black woman with locs sitting down smiling. She is wearing a bright green shirt and bright green earrings. There is a bookshelf in the back with books on it.]